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ii. We have sent three shipments of clothing, blan- Students sponsored
kets etc to the Korean Christian Federation this 1994/1995 1,113
year. This includes 94,929 assorted garments, 1995/1996 1,296
1,050 blankets for adults and 1,750 blankets 1996/1997 1,066
for children. A portion of the garments were 1997/1998 2,068
donated by the Salvation Army. 1998/1999 5,777
(c) Allocation of funds to the emergency and devel- 1999/2000 15,399
opment projects 2000/2001 30,388
2001/2002 Target 50,000
Ethiopia famine relief $1,200,000
Indonesia: Ethnic violence relief $150,000
ii. In this financial year, the total income of this
Philippines: Mayon volcano eruption relief $100,000
project is $6,167,000. Total expenditure is
India CASA integrated rural $200,000
$5,621,000. To sponsor one student to go to
development project
school is $200. Sponsors can have the biodata
Bangladesh integrated rural $200,000
and family background information and photo.
development project
School reports will be sent to the sponsor twice
Myanmar integrated rural development project $100,000
a year. This project is a joint venture with the
Inner Mongolia snow storm relief $513,000
Amity Foundation which is an affiliated orga-
India Gujarat earthquake relief $727,000
nization of the China Christian Council. Most
El Salvador earthquake relief $239,000
of the administration of this project is carried
out in Nanjing.
(d) Rebuilding Collapsing Schools Project
iii. Due to the increase of workload of the Back
i. This year we have given support to rebuild 82
To School Project, we maintain one office in
primary schools. There are 27 in Yunnan, 50
Wanchai, Hong Kong. Mr. Chow Chi-wai as-
in Guizhou, 3 in Inner Mongolia and 2 in
sists the project. (This office was provided
Ningxia.
free-of-charge by one Christian businessman.)
ii. Two fundraising events have been organized.
(f) After 7 years of operation, we have finally termi-
One is the Thatched House film jointly orga-
nated the support to the Bei Wan Nan An Pri-
nized with the English Department of the City
mary School (formerly known as Kei Oi Primary
University of Hong Kong students. The other
School). It was planned to support this school
event was a walkathon at the Peak on March
for only 5 years after the school was built.
4, 2001.
However, in order to have a smooth transition,
(e) Back To School Project
we extended our support for two more years in
i. The Back to School Project was started in the
1999.
1994/95 school year. Rev. Law Kit-choi is the
Chair of the working committee. In the 2000/ (g) In the 2000/2001 school year, a new project was
created to help students who live in the moun-
2001 school year, there were 30,388 students
tainous rural area to go to university. The name
being sponsored by this project. The sponsored
of the project is Project Torch. There are 14 stu-
students come from 41 counties in 11 prov-
dents being sponsored to study in the Nanjing
inces in mainland China. Following is a sta-
U niversity and the N anjing A griculture
tistic chart of this project.
University. The sponsor fee is from RMB 6,300