CFPA's first international project was realized in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami when the organization raised funds for affected disaster victims.
CFPA's first international project was realized in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami when the organization raised funds for affected disaster victims.
CFPA is committed to disbursing donor funds in the most effective way possible to combat rural poverty and stimulate development in remote regions.
The project covered 23 counties (city, district) in 11 provinces (municipalities/autonomous regions) in Yunnan, Chongqing, Fujian, Ningxia, Anhui, Sichuan, Shanxi, Hebei, Hunan, Liaoning, and Beijing, with 645,000 person-times benefited.
Through the establishment of a Child Companion's home and the recruitment of Children Companions to take care of stay-at-home children, the basic rights of stay-at-home children were protected; Created future space, set up a refueling classroom, and helped poor children develop in an all-round way; Issued Love Package, organized training for music and physical education teacher, and improved the audio-visual teaching status and learning conditions in rural elementary schools in poverty-stricken areas; Assisted in construction of student dormitories and libraries for townships in poverty-stricken areas to solve the problems of poor student accommodation in poverty-stricken areas; Helped them complete their studies and realize their dream of becoming talent, through the economic subsidy and talent support for impoverished high school students and impoverished college students.
As of the end of 2017, the project received subscribed donations of more than RMB 120 million, and 220 school dormitories have been built in 206 counties in 19 provinces across the country, benefiting approximately 93,000 people.
The project received a donation of RMB 107.951 million in accumulation, directly benefiting 64,600 people and helping more than 21,500 high school students complete their studies and develop the spirit of self-reliance and self-supporting.
The "Moving Forward Plan" is a developmental philanthropy project launched by China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation that promotes the development of children in poverty-stricken areas and facilitates equity in urban and rural education.
The project aims to improve learning for children in poverty-stricken areas through continuous social care and professional support and share quality educational resources.
The poverty-stricken and vulnerable populations of the old and the young in remote and poor areas, were in a disadvantaged position in the market competition due to lack of financial support, small scale of production, or inconvenient transportation, and it is slow for them to improve living quality.
China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, in order to provide poverty-stricken areas and impoverished populations with opportunities for more development benefits in the market economy, actively provided credit services to poor households, strived to improve the basic production and living conditions in rural areas, helped establish rural cooperatives, and excavated local resources to build beautiful countryside, and linked markets to promote e-commerce poverty alleviation through innovation and development.
In 2017, CFPA continued to organize and implement advocacy activities such as the Great Walkers, Hunger 24, "Donate One Yuan, Give Benevolence, Offer Nutrition" and "Together with Walmart for Extra Meals".
The event encourages participants to form a team of four people jointly overcome difficulties by walking day and night to complete the hiking challenge of 50 or 100 kilometers within specified time.
With the belief of "Great Walkers bring changes at every step", the event mobilizes people around us to support public welfare through actions and contribute to the comprehensive development of children in poverty-stricken areas.
Advocating "do not think any vice trivial, and so practice it," and promoting the charity concept that "everyone can be charitable", thereby, everyone can participate in public benefit by this activity, more people's love and social responsibility are inspired and cultivated.
By the end of 2017, the Donate One Yuan project has provided more than 37.4 million nutritious meals for the 547,000 primary school students in poverty-stricken mountainous areas in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hubei, Guangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Hebei, Heilongjiang and Xinjiang.
Provided standard "love kitchen equipment" including electric stoves, rice cookers, sterilizers, workbench and exhaust fans for 860 poverty-stricken mountain schools.
With the joint efforts of the partners and the strong support of consumers, in 2017, the "Together with Walmart for Extra Meals" activity totally received 3.06 million RMB for charity.
After the goods is sold, the seller will donate a certain amount of money to the designated public benefit project for related philanthropy undertakings and promoting the concept of charity consumption.
On October 29, 2017, the 9th "Love Knows No Border" international charity sale with the theme of "Building a Healthy Home in Yunnan" was held at the Workers' Stadium.
China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, with the support of local government, enterprises, partners and individual donor in 2017, focusing on the six UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals of No poverty, zero hunger, good health well-being, quality education, clean drinking water and decent work and economic growth, carried out international aid projects in seven countries including Myanmar, Nepal, Ethiopia, Sudan, Cambodia and DPRK, including provide meals for African Smiling Children's school, Nepal post-disaster reconstruction, Myanmar Paukphaw Scholarship Project, Ethiopian women's vocational training, Ethiopian water cellar construction, international volunteer and other projects; a total of RMB 20.29 million was invested during the year, benefiting 91,117 beneficiaries.
China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, at the CCTV Charity Night, received the "Belt and Road" Public Benefit Practitioner Award on September 5, 2017.
In 2017, the project received donation from the Gong Yi Bao Beietc.. Its scale increased from 600 persons to 1300, with an expenditure of RMB 2.25 million for the year.
The first-phase grant amounted to nearly RMB 670,000, mainly for equipping with desks, chairs, computer classrooms, sewing machines and building toilets for schools.
China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation has raised more than RMB 5 million to support 3,813 students in 7 Sudan public schools, by the end of 2017, after two years and a half of project implementation.
The implementation of the Computer Project would surely reduce the digital gap in sub-Saharan African countries and provide children with quality education.
Hurricane Matthew made landfall in the Caribbean island nation of Haiti on October 3, 2016, razing houses, uprooting trees, inundating field and destroying municipal water supply systems.
CFPA surveyed the disaster site, conducted medical patrols, and distributed aid materiel in a series of operations addressing the immediate humanitarian needs of hurricane struck communities.
Materiel relief provided was valued at over to US$30,000, and directly benefited over 2035 hurricane victims, and included medical supplies which was used to successfully treat 436 patients.
[2][3] On the international stage, CFPA actively makes the world hear the voice of Chinese non-governmental organizations and shares the public welfare philosophy of China.