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 渭北蒲城县的萌萌写道：“我一定要好好学习，长大后回报这位远在加拿大的资助人……” 蒲城县义龙小学的雯雯和她的同学一起呼吁所有的学生们“爱护每一棵小树，创建绿色校园！” 陕北佳县的凡凡只要想起那件令自己感动、记忆深刻的事情，就会时刻提醒自己“只要人人都献出一点爱，这世界会充满爱。” 榆林的亮亮对任何事物都有强烈的兴趣，这不，她最近最感兴趣的事情是观察鸡下蛋，并把这个过程活灵活现地写下来，分享给其他的小朋友。 …… |
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Why sponsor a child? There is a great gap in life’s opportunities between children in poor parts of China, especially in the west mountainous areas and children in more developed parts of China and developed Western countries. This includes education opportunity, teaching environment and quality, nutrition, environment, sanitation, health services, economic conditions and so on. Furthermore, this gap continues to expand. In addition, because they have less contact and know little about the world outside their villages or towns, their horizons are limited. All of these factors limit the future development of these children. Sponsoring a child is one of the best ways to create a world where all children can realize their full potential. Sponsors and children write letters, share photos and sometimes exchange gifts. Occasionally, sponsors may visit children. Each year or each month, sponsors make a small donation to support development projects in the children’s villages. These projects include improvement of education, sanitation and service capacity of communities in the children’s villages, increase of incomes, enhancement of technology, potable water and irrigation, comprehensive capacity building of communities and so on. In all of these projects, children and members of communities take a leading role in deciding the needs of their community, identifying solutions to problems and participating in implementing projects to improve their community. Plan China builds a bridge between children and sponsors through sponsorship. Whilst improving children’s survival, protection and development condition, Plan China helps sponsors know the children who live in another world and their living conditions. At the same time, children get opportunities to know the outside world, enlarge their horizons and strengthen their motivations of self-improvement. This encourages and develops their understanding of the world from childhood. Plan’s caseload in China By June 30th 2008, Plan China has sponsored 30,300 children in over 500 administrative villages of Shaanxi Province and Ningxi Hui Autonomous Region. How to sponsor a child? Sponsoring a child requires a commitment of about 260 USD per year (the number may changed yearly) to support development projects in a child’s village. The donations can be made to Plan China’s sponsoring account as a one-off payment or as a monthly contribution. We encourage sponsors and children to communicate with each other. We translate all letters and deliver them to ensure the children’s rights are protected. We also assist sponsors to visit children. At present, Plan China’s sponsors are mainly from developed countries. Plan China has not directly invited local sponsors in China. However, in accordance with internal Chinese Government policies, Plan China will enroll local sponsors in the future. If you would like to contribute to Plan China’s work, please go to our foreign sponsoring web pages through the following links. For help or reference, please contact: Mr. Liu 029-88102399-7059 |