Proper use of donations

The misuse of some Project Hope primary schools shows that the donations should be protected from being used for other purposes, says an article in China Youth Daily. The following is an excerpt:

In Changyang Tujia autonomous county, Hubei province, an economically backward county, only 18 out of 76 Project Hope primary schools that had been built in the mid- and late 1990s are still in normal operation now. The rest have long been used for other purposes like crop fields, pig or chicken shelters, offices for village government or even waste land. Experts said it is not an isolated case in the province and even the whole country.

The misuse obviously goes against the will of donors for these schools. The online postings condemning the misuse of these donation-built primary schools indicate that the public's enthusiasm for charities has been dampened.