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New Zealand China Friendship Society
Mission: "To promote friendship, understanding and goodwill between the peoples of China and New Zealand by encouraging visits and exchanges of ideas, information, culture and trade between the two countries."
In China since: 1952
Annual China budget: $20,000
International Contact:
Sally Russell
Projects Liaison Person
35 Breadalbane Road Havelock North New Zealand
Tel: +64 6 877 6027
Fax: +64 6 877 6027
The Society was established more than 50 years ago as part of the movement of international solidarity with China’s Communist revolution. In the early days, it was closely linked to Rewi Alley, a New Zealander who played a leading role in establishing the international ‘Gung Ho’ movement, which supported industrial cooperatives in Communist held areas during the war against Japan. Another of the founders, Kathleen Hall, worked in Songjiazhuang, Hebei in the 1930s.
In recent years, the Society has renewed its relationship with long standing partners. A cooperative health clinic was established, with the Society’s support, in Songjiazhuang in 2001. The Shandan Bailie School is another product of cooperation. It was founded during the anti-Japanese War period and reopened in 1987 in Shandan County, which is one of the poorest areas in Gansu. It was named after an American Missionary, Joseph Bailie, who used to teach at this school and died there.
Cooperated with the Shandan Women’s Federation, the Society is supporting programmes to train rural women in animal husbandry skills and to increase their knowledge of their legal rights. The society is also supporting capacity building in project management and participatory methods for the Guangxi Women’s Federation.
The Society is funded by donations from individuals. It has received some grant support from the New Zealand government Agency for International Development
Links
http://www.nzchinasociety.org.nz
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