Providing education for 267 children in China

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Providing education for 267 children in China

Summary

This project constructs a primary school and other facilities for 267 school children in Guizhou, China. read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $7,505 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

There is no proper school at Yong He County in Guizhou, China. 267 Children are being educated in rented houses. Lack of space, inadequate lighting and permanent venue adversely affect the quality of education.This project will construct a primary school in the village.Therefore, more children will be able to receive education in a stable and safe evironment. With increasing opportunities to receive education,children in the village can better equip themselves to break the cycle of poverty.

Activities

To construct a concrete school building with 6 classrooms,1 library,2 office rooms for teachers and 1 school squat toliet with 16 stalls; to provide 134 sets of chairs and desks;to provide 1,000 books and to install electricity and water supply.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $7,505

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $7,505. The original project funding goal was $29,497.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Project's External Homepage (http://www.oxfam.org.hk)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will construct a permanent school for 267 children. More teachers can be attracted to teach in the community.Women will have less worry on their children and thus can spend more time on other livelihood or capacity building activities.

Project Message

Over 100 million children are out of school. Support Oxfam to help millions of poor people to get access to basic education, and to get out of poverty!
- John Sayer, Director General, Oxfam Hong Kong

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Deon Lai,
Donor Development Officer
17/F., China United Centre
28 Marble Road, North Point
Hong Kong, SAR China
China
85231205189
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Oxfam Hong Kong
17/F., China United Centre
28 Marble Road, North Point
Hong Kong SAR, SAR China
China
852-2520 2525
http://www.oxfam.org.hk

Learn more about Oxfam Hong Kong and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in China and can also be found under Education.

For more information about China, read the Human Development Report on China or the Wikipedia entry for China.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on October 29, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 02, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Final report on Educational project

By Deon Lai - Project Leader, October 29, 2007 05:52 PM

School construction is complete-- students, their parents and teachers are all very delighted to have this new school which also helps improve the teaching quality in the village.

Please click below to read the full details of the school construction!
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