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(ii) From April 14-19, 2006 during the Easter
girls. This project would also seek out some of the most
Holiday, a trip was organized to Southwestern Guizhou talented girls to complete their secondary education.
and Northern Guangxi with 20 participants.

Funding of the Girl Schooling is by classroom.
3. Project Torch
For a class of 35 to 40 students, the assistance would
be RM B 10,000 fo r the p rim ary sch o ol c la ss,
“Project Torch”sponsors financially disadvan- RM B 15,000 for the junior high and RMB20,000 for

taged students in China for their university education senior high.
These students would have been forced to give up their
university education due to financial difficulty despite In 2005/2006 academic year, the funding for the
the fact that they are very talented and bright. In the Girl classes is as follows: Primary school 25 classes,
2005/2006 school year, the project sponsored 263 junior high 8 classes, senior high 7 classes.
students.

The sponsored girl classes come mainly from the
follow ing provinces and counties: Longsheng and
University No. of Students Sanjaing counties in Guangxi Province, M eitan and
Nanjing University 55
Fenggang counties in Guizhou Province, Pingbian
Nanjing Agricultural University 55
county in Yunnan Province, Jingyuan, Tongxin coun-
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and A stronautics 23
ties and the Xixia district of Yinchuang city in Ningxia
Nanjing Normal University 54 Province.
Nanjing Southeast University 28
Nanjing Hohai University 3
5. Rural China Orphan Sponsorship Project
Nanjing University of Science and Technology 37
Nanjing Forestry University 1

“Rural China Orphan Sponsorship Project”aims
Nanjing College for Population Programme Management 2
to sponsor families in which orphans are left for care
Nanjing University o f Traditional Chinese M edicine 1
in poor villages. It helps to provide a safe and healthy
Nanjing Comm unication Technician College 1
en v iro n m en t for the o rp h an s for g ro w th and
Nanjing Technical College of Special Education 1
developm ent. The sponsorship covers living costs,
Hunan Institute o f Technology 1
education, clothing, and medical care. This project was
China West Normal University 1
started from July 2002. As of July 2006, a total
of 3,341 orphans are being sponsored. The number of
sponsors is 1,463. The sponsored orphans are mainly
Project Torch already has a history of 6 years. In
June 2006 we witnessed the third group of students - a from Henan and Shandong Provinces. This project pro­
vided a total funding of HK$5,000,000 for the current
total of 26 - who have graduated from university thanks financial year.
to Project Torch. Most of them had already found jobs
before graduation. A celebration event was held on June
Two sponsors group visits to the project area were
3, 2006 in Nanjing with participation by all the Project organized:
Torch Students and about 20 sponsors from Hong
Kong. After the event in Nanjing, the graduates to- (a) From November 7-11, 2005, a group visit to
gether with some of the sponsors had a 3-day gradua- Fe County, Pingyi County and Luozhang district of
tion outing in Hangzhou.
Linyi was organized. 33 sponsors participated in this
visit.
4. Girl Schooling Project

(b) From April 12-17, 2006, another group visit
Dr. Chu Tai-shing is the Chairperson of the Work-
ing Group. was organized to Shenqiu, Luyi and D ancheng
counties. 32 sponsors participated.

The Girl Schooling Project aims to provide basic
education to girls who due to financial difficulty could 6. Emergency and Rehabilitation Projects
not ordinarily attend primary school. The girl classes
(a) This financial year we continue our support to
provide board and lodging as school fee support to these
the ACT South Asia Tsunami response. A total fund-

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