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Small gifts can bring big hope

Small donations of up to one yuan ($14 cents) per customer at fast food restaurants in China, such as KFC and Pizza Hut, have formed a huge fund for charity of 150 million yuan since the program was launched in 2008. The organizer, catering group Yum China, said in July the fund was used to provide kitchen equipment including electric cookers and freezers-as well as supplying more than 30 million nutritious dinners for about 400,000 pupils from poor areas in eight provinces of China. During the company's visit to one of the rural schools, it donated about 300 children's books to local students.

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