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Committee Ministries

Sharing and Church P roject details of 2009/10 are listed as follow s:

Item Till 8/31/2010 Percentage
W itness Com m ittee
1. Orphans under
6,244
sponsorship
The Com m ittee is chaired by Dr. Lawrence Yick
2. Sponsors 3,017
K ar-lim . E xecutive sta ff is Ms. W innie W ong Yuk-
3. Provinces under
ha. The “Five Loaves and Two Fish Program ” is the
sponsorship
resources sharing program of the Council that manages
A. S handong 467 7.48%
the following projects:
B. H enan 2,429 38.90%

A. China Rural Orphan Sponsorship C. Anhui 2,733 43.77%
Project
D. Jiangsu 130 2.08%
The project is to support rural orphans in poor
E. G uizhou 129 2.07%
districts in China so that they may grow up in a more
F. N ingxia 114 1.82%
stable environment. The cost of sponsoring an orphan is
HK$1,800 per year. Last year, the working team labored G. Sichuan 242 3.88%
diligently to im prove the efficiency and effectiveness
of the project. A fter much consultation, investigation Total 6,244 100%
and discussion, it came to a conclusion that the project
4. Level o f O rphans
should w ork clo se ly w ith the local gove rn m e nts of under sponsorship
different districts, instead of w orking through a third
A. O rphans in
party. Therefore, starting from January 2010, the Project prim ary school 3,652 67.14%
cooperates directly with counterpart units and appointed
B. Orphans in junior
Dr. Wang Jin-zhu, a volunteer in China, to be the liaison high school 2,121 27.12%
to set up communication between Hong Kong and China.
C. Orphans in senior
369 4.09%
high school
D. Pre-school age
102 1.65%
orphans
Total 6,244 100%

B. Rebuilding Collapsing Schools
Project

This project is to build safe and well equipped
school buildings for pupils in the poor mountain areas in
inland China so that they are able to finish their primary
school studies in a suitable environment. In 2009/10, 31
Visiting the orphans in Anhui schools were built at the cost of HK$4,851,500.

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