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Article: Project Hope helps 2.6 mln Chinese needy dropouts continue theireducation
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 13, 2004
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Project Hope helps 2.6 mln Chinese needy dropouts continue their
education
SHANGHAI, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Project Hope has enabled more than
2.6 million poor dropouts in China's rural areas to return to school
and continue their education since its launch in October 1989, said
Tu Meng, deputy secretary-general of the China Youth Development
Foundation (CYDF).
Tu acknowledged that a total of 11,000 Project Hope primary
schools have been set up in the countryside since the first one was
opened in east China's Anhui Province in October, 1989.
Project Hope plans to finance 15,000 students from migrant farmer
worker families in 27 cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and
Nanjing to go to ...