Keep poor kids educated in school in China

Instead of numbers and generals, I would like instead share with you Maio's story.  The attached files include  her recent article about her experience with us and her visit to  twin boys during winter break in 2013.   Her writing is much better than mine---please read it. Here is a summary.

  Her father was mentally ill and her older sister was in a three year college when she was in 10th grade. Her mom worked extremely hard to make the ends meet for the family. We supported her with donation from kind people like you. After her sister graduated college and found a job, her family situation started to get better, and she gave up our support after sophomore year. That did not end her interaction  with us. She volunteered and during winter break of 2013, she went to visit a poor twins near her home, and wrote a moving story (see attached).  After 4 year college study at Beijing University of Technology, she was admited to the prestigious USTC for her graduate school. She volunteered to help other college students by sharing her experience and listening to them, and ... 

 Last July, she found a job in Shanghai after graduation at USTC, and immediately donated part of her first salary to us (our partner Zhong Mei Ai Xin in China).  She is part of the Zhong Mei Ai Xin  and Hometown Education Foundation family.  The support and the experience with us have inspired her a lot and made her a better person, according herself.

  Your support makes a difference to the poor students like her, and inspire them to work harder and do better, to feel more confident and less isolated, and to  become more caring themselves.

 Please help us spread words to your friends and encourage  them to support us too.

P.S. She gave me permission to use her name and her article. 

• Ten Years with the Hometown Education Foundation (PDF)
  
• Visit Twins (PDF)
  

Summer has arrived, and the Fall is coming soon.  The poor students need our  support to continue their basic edcation, and we need your donation and support to help them.

 A little support makes a real difference. It helps some fo the students to buy books to read, and help others not to starve when going to class (lunch money), and for some others help paying rent when the student and his/her grandma(pa) or mother have to rent a room near school to stay there during weekdays.  

 Dr. Yang is in China and will visit some of the poor students as he did in past years. He will also talk with some high school graduates about college education and college life. Please check 

  http://www.hometowneducation.org/photos17-1.html

and links there for his past visits.

 In  honor of his late mother (passed away in April at age 88), Dr. Yang also matches your donation by 50% if you do it before August 2 (his mother's 88th birthday).