In April 2018, we made a donation to help Yangjiazhuang Village in Luotang Town of Longnan to develop a demonstration base for planting herbs. In the rugged mountains, the villagers grew the herb Baiji . While the seedlings were growing healthily, a flood of a magnitude seen only once every 50 years swept the [...]
In 2017, we entered into a collaboration with Sichuan Agricultural University to finance a farmer at Bixi Township of Peng’an County to build a ranch on a piece of wasteland. With our technical and financial aid in the past year, the farmer, Mr He, set up a co-operative society with four families in the [...]
On 13 September 2018, we visited Sichuan Agricultural University to meet our sponsored students who are receiving our financial aid for the second year. The students felt that they have more freedom now than in senior secondary school, so that they have time for extra-curricular activities. All of them took part in community building [...]
On September 10 and 11, we visited our agricultural bases in Zhangye, Jiuquan and Jiayuguan. Originally, the farmers there grew low-value produces for local consumption because of high transport costs as a result of the inconvenient traffic network. But with investment by merchants from outside, they began to grow seeds in large swaths. We wanted [...]
We visited Senior Secondary 2 students at Dingxi No. 1 Secondary School on 8 September, 2018. The Principal reported the schools’ best ever performance at the last university entrance examination to encourage the students to work hard. This is our second visit this year and we reiterated our old saying: We expect students to [...]
Although we have requested through the school principals that the Senior 3 students should not spend time and money to buy us presents, some of them gave us small presents nonetheless. The gifts reflected their thoughtfulness and our hearts were warmed. Up to 2017-18, YEF has offered more than 2,100 bursaries to children of [...]
We have a class of Senior 3 students at Guyuan No. 5 Secondary School who are going to take the university entrance examination in June. On 2 April 2018, we invited them to dinner to raise their spirit. We collaborated with Wofoo Leaders' Network and arranged 20 university students from Hong Kong, who were [...]
Zhongnan Village is a severe poverty village designated to be assisted by Dingxi No. 1 Secondary School under the ‘targeted poverty alleviation’ policy. On March 31, 2018, we visited the village with the school officials. We invited Professors Zhang Guohong and Dong Jun, experts on plantations and breeding from Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, [...]
In 2016, we gave away seeds of newly bred draught-resistant soybean to parents of Senior 1 students and they reaped their harvest last year. This year, their children were moving up to Senior 3. On 31 March 2018 we organized a sharing session at Dingxi No. 1 Secondary School. The parents brought with them [...]
Senior 3 students would sit for the university entrance examination in June. On 30 March, 2018, we invited Senior 3 students in Dingxi No. 1 Secondary School to dinner to boost their spirits as they were to take the examination. During the evening, we played some videos on Hong Kong. We also showed videos [...]