YEF has assisted senior secondary students from peasant families since 2010. Every student receives financial aid for three years, and an additional year’s assistance for those who successfully gained entry to university. Every year, there are students entering university, which makes us feel very proud. Up to 2016-17, we have offered more than 1,900 [...]
Students at Lintao No. 2 Secondary School have received our assistance for three years and would take the university entrance examination in June 2017. We visited them at school on April 17 to offer encouragement and play games on teamwork. They wrote well-wish cards to their sponsors for us to take back to Hong [...]
On April 12, 2017, we visited Sichuan University and Sichuan Agricultural University to explore the feasibility of poverty alleviation projects. We met with the Secretary-General of the Sichuan University Education Fund, Mr Rong Jianguo, at Chengdu in the morning to discuss the mode of co-operation on such projects. In the afternoon, we went to [...]
In early 2016, two of our advisers, Professor Lam Hon-ming of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Professor Zhang Guohong of Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, had successfully bred drought-resistant soybeans and obtained certification so that they could be put on the market. We were able to obtain the original species at cost [...]
With the support of philanthropists from various quarters, YEF had put together donations to fund water diversion works at Manwa Village of Manwa Township. A completion ceremony was held on 15 April 2017 and we visited some of the beneficiary peasant families. Manwa Village is situated in the dry mountainous region northeast of Lintao [...]
We continue to maintain an interest in our sponsored students even after their graduation. On 12 September 2017, our Chairman Mr. Roger Wong and CEO Mrs. Teresa Wong visited Chengdu. They had dinner with three of our students who graduated in 2016 and were now studying in three universities in Chengdu. Although the trades [...]
On 18 September 2017, we went to Guyuan, Ningxia, to visit students in Guyuan No. 5 Secondary School and Guyuan No. 2 Secondary School whom YEF sponsored. We met with them and shared their summer holiday stories. After that, the students wrote Thank You cards for us to take back to their sponsors in [...]
In 2016, we gave seeds of the newly developed drought-resistant soybean to our sponsored students at Dingxi No.1 Secondary School, and invited experts to talk to them. On 16 September 2017, we visited them and distributed the sponsorship for the third year in red packets. Students shared with us their interesting happenings during the [...]
YEF has been sponsoring peasant children at senior secondary schools since 2010. In 2016, we further sponsored three of these students for their living cost during the four years at university. In 2017, we begin to sponsor peasant children admitted to Sichuan Agricultural University to study agriculture. We hope that through knowledge, they can [...]
On 14 September 2017, Mr. Roger Wong, Chairman of YEF, signed a cooperation agreement with the Vice-President of Sichuan Agricultural University, Mr Yang Wenyu, to grow grass on deserted farmland with a view to setting up a ranch to breed goats. Financial assistance would be offered to a poor household to set up and [...]