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published by Sun Hung Kai Properties was University No. of Students Graduated in
on sale with all proceeds going to the Project. 2007
HK$ 104,494 was raised during the exhibition. Nanjing
60 13
University
Organized exposure trips: Nanjing Normal 58 14
University
(a) From April 14-19, 2006, a trip to Wangmo Coun- Nanjing University
of Science and 54 0
ty in Guizhou and Leye and Lingyun Counties
Technology
was organized to visit new schools which we
Nanjing University
have funded.
of Aeronautics 25 0
and Astronautics
(b) From April 19-21, 2006, a group visited Puding
Nanjing Agricultural
County in Guizhou. University 58 16

Nanjing Medical
(c) From April 21-25, 2006, a trip was organized to University 13 0
Xingyi and Zhenfeng County in Guizhou to of- Nanjing Southeast
12 5
ficiate the opening of new schools. University
Other Universities 18 1
(d) From December 22-26, 2006, a group visited Total students
298 49
Huangping County, Fuquan and Guiding. sponsored

The other activities of this Project include:
(e) From March 30-April 6, 2007, a group visited
Wuding County in Yunnan Province.
(a) On May 2, 2007, a celebration event was or-
ganized in the Nanjing Agricultural University with
(f) From April 1- 6, 2007, a group visited Wubu and
a total of 22 Hong Kong sponsors participating.
Zizhou Counties in the Yulin region of Northern
(b) From June 4 - 6, 2007, a total of 52 persons,
Shaanxi Province.
including both sponsors and 2007 graduates, partici-
pated in a graduation trip in Hangzhou.
(g) From April 6-10, 2007, a group visited Conjian
and Rongjiang Counties.
4. Rural China O rphan Sponsorship
Project :

3. Project Torch : Ms. Tina Hong is the Chairperson of the work-
Mr. Anthony Wong is the Chairperson of the ing group of this Project.
working group of this Project.
“Project Torch” sponsors financially disadvan- “Rural China Orphan Sponsorship Project”
aims to sponsor families in which orphans are left
taged students in China for their university educa-
for care in poor villages. It helps to provide a safe
tion. These students would have been forced to
and healthy environment for the orphans for growth
give up their university education due to financial
and development. The sponsorship covers living
difficulty despite the fact that they are very talented
costs, education, clothing, and medical care. This
and bright. In the 2006/2007 school year, the Project
Project was started from July 2002. In this financial
sponsored 298 students. year, the number of orphans being sponsored is 4,561.
The number of sponsors is 2,195. 91% of sponsors
are from Hong Kong while the remaining sponsors
are from all over the world. The sponsoring fee for
one orphan is HK$ 1,500. (Among the sponsored or-
phans, 108 are high school students and the sponsor-
ing fee for this group of orphans is HK$3,000.)
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