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CHINAIM.COM
WEB SITE SETUP ¡°COLLEGE AID FUND FOR POVERTY-STRICKEN STUDENTS¡± IN CHINA (GOLDEN
RESOURCES enlarge the scale of her Chri-funds) 1st Aug, 2003 ¡¡ |
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Tears coming
to my eyes when I was looking over today¡¯s paper (Though I am not an easy-crying
man). The first of August ¡°Newspaper Digest¡± reprinted an article from
¡°Chinese Women¡±( 26th of July) with the heading ¡° Why it¡¯s
so difficult for me to go to college?¡± The story is about a high school
graduate in Yulin, Shanxi province, who achieved high score of 533 in
the national university entrance exam and has been admitted by North-east
Normal University, but her father Jing Tongshi became extremely worried
after knowing that the minimum tuition fee would be high as 10,000RMB,
finally he committed suicide by taking poison in his house on Jul.14. I own a
not-big company (GOLDEN RESOURCES INDUSTRIES, -- www.goldenresources.com
), currently I also act as chief editor for China Non-Metallic Minerals
Industry Association web site (WWW.CHINAIM.COM.CN).
On the very first day when I started my own business, I set up a Charity
Fund by taking off 10% profit from the business to provide assistances to
the elderly person of no family and poverty-stricken students. After all,
my ability to help can only satisfy a small part of the needy, I am not
that rich and powerful person, my business is not that big, so as the
profit, my assistance compared with the actually needed, is but a drop in
the ocean. In the past several years, besides providing non-reimbursable
aids to the needy, we¡¯ve also provided sponsorship to those who have
been selected against certain criteria. But,
today, I changed my mind, I am willing to take off all my profit of the
year to set up a ¡°College Aid Fund for Poverty-stricken Students¡±, I
am willing to give up my plan on ¡°expanded reproduction¡±, in stead, I
will provide this assistance to students from the poverty-stricken region
all over the country. What the current fact is, many parents borrow loans
on a high interest to finance their kids¡¯ education at college, what we
would do is, we would provide interest-free loan, in this way, the Fund
can provide assistances to more new students through its closed-operation
after five to eight years period, and there is more, the Fund itself can
survive in the whole process. We
need to work on the details as to how the Fund will work, it takes time to
bring the plan to completion. We would watch out in order to avoid
loopholes on the operation. For parents working in our industry, if any of
you come across such financial difficulties to send your kids to college,
we will provide transportation fee, also, we will contact the college and
provide financial guarantee, we can even send tuition fee to the school.
I
have made up my mind that I will not work anymore for anybody as employee,
including foreign-funded enterprises( because I don¡¯t want people
bossing around me). Now, I decided to take all my profit of my company and
the web site to set up such a Fund, to help more poverty-stricken
students. And for this purpose, I am willing to work for others all my
life. Contact
address: Flat A-1002, No.269 Hua-yang Road, Shanghai, 200042 Attn:
China Non-Metallic Minerals Industry Association Web Site Web£ºWWW.CHINAIM.COM.CN E-mail:
JOHNCHAN2342003@YAHOO.COM.CN Fax:
021-622-56329 ¡¡ |
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John Chan ¡¡ |