Rural China Education Foundation

Mission

Our mission is to promote education in rural China that empowers students to improve their lives and their communities. We believe rural students should develop skills and confidence from their education that will help them deal with real world problems, deepen their understanding of social issues, and prepare them to help improve their environments. Our strategy is to accumulate and share practice-based expertise on curriculum and teaching methods that meets these goals.

Programs

Integrative Rural Education Program: Supports full-time rural teachers to develop effective curricula and teaching methods for the rural context Summer Volunteer Program: Recruits volunteers from around the world to supplement and enrich education for rural village children through summer camps Innovation Grants Program: Supports grassroots organizations pioneering community models of quality education Libraries and Reading Program: Offers access to quality books and fosters love of reading

Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

Quality Education for Rural China

Personnel Overview

Wei Ji Ma - President & CEO
Wei Ji Ma is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester (USA). He obtained his M.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics, and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His active involvement with rural education in China started with a two-month study trip in 2004 on an Avery Foundation fellowship.

Diane Geng - Vice President & Chief Networking Officer
Diane will graduate from Harvard University in June 2007 with a master’s degree in education. She is a Harvard University Reynolds Foundation fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. After graduating from UC Davis in 2004, she studied rural education in China as a US Fulbright Scholar and was a Kroc fellow at National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, DC.

Sara Lam - Secretary of the Board of Directors
With a master's from Harvard in International Education Policy and teaching experience in Latin America and Eastern Europe, Sara has trained rural teachers in China and lived and worked full-time at a Community Center in Beijing addressing the needs of rural migrant parents and children. She co-authored a Chinese primary school textbook and has served as RCEF's chief representative in China

Personnel Statistics

Diane Geng,
President & Co-Executive Director
Founded in 2005
Employees: 5
Volunteers: 80

Financial Statistics

Budget (2008): $ 97,000
Budget (2007): $ 47,000
Maximum Budget: $ 136,000
Overhead: 11 %
Other funding sources: Echoing Green, Tiger Woods Foundation, Global Fund for Children, Aixin Foundation, Proliteracy Worldwide, Do Something, Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Social Entrepeneurship Fund
Religious Affiliation: none