How clean-up program is improving local lives
By Erik Nilsson | China Daily | Updated: 2008-11-05 08:05
In the ruins of the collapsed Hongbai Primary School, reporter Fu Jing discovered several students' drawings that had survived the cave-in.
One of these artworks, depicting a logger cutting down trees and scrawled with environmental protection messages, was later auctioned in Beijing. On Oct 29, the 100,000 yuan ($14,600) in proceeds were donated to the school in rural Shifang township in Sichuan province.
The cash will fund English-language projects for the school, providing money for volunteer instructors to travel to the area and for training local teachers.
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