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Since being launched in August of 2008, Hand-to-Hand Project has carried out operations in 6 project areas of 3 provinces including Gansu, Shaanxi and Henan Province. The content of project covers different aspects of early childhood care and education of rural children. This conference lasted for 2 days, during which time, it reviewed the project development condition in the half year and explicited the content for the future work; it introduced the relative financial rules and procedures of the project in order to guarantee the transparency and accountability of the project finance management; it conducted the capacity building of the local project teams; Meanwhile, it will offered software and hardware technical supports for project activities to the local government project workers. In the conference, Mark Leighton, the Country Director of Plan China, on behalf of the Plan, extended his gratitude to the executive team of the Hand-to-Hand Project. Meanwhile, he especially expressed his thanks to the commitments and supports of governments at all levels on raising the service quality of early childhood care and education of China rural areas. Representatives from Nokia Telecommunications Ltd. (China) and Youth Development Foundation have addressed the meeting respectively as well. |


