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Sowers Action
Mission: "To turn the huge population burden into a pool of intellectual and productive resources"
In China since: 1992
Annual China budget: $2,000,000
Number of staff: 2 national and expatriate
International Contact:
Eva Chan (陳慶芸)
Executive Officer
3/F Lee Kong Commercial Building
115 Woosung Street, Kowloon 10 Hong Man Street, Chaiwan
Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2597 4739
Mailing Address:
PO Box 23302 Wanchai Post Office
Hong Kong
Sowers Action was established in Hong Kong in 1992 to support universal access to basic education in China. Over the last 14 years it has provided financial assistance enabling more than 146,000 individual students to attend primary school, and has reconstructed over 400 dilapidated schools. It has also awarded prizes to outstanding rural teachers, donated books and teaching materials to schools, provided additional living allowances for students from remote areas who have to board at school, and funded rural teacher training programmes.
Although Sowers Action now has a full time staff of 9 (including two mainland staff, based in Guangdong and Yunnan) it continues to rely heavily on volunteers from Hong Kong. In line with an organisational policy of ‘on site evaluation, direct subsidy, long-term follow-up’, teams of volunteers regularly visit the beneficiary areas on the mainland, to assess, monitor and evaluate projects. Every school that is re-built is visited at least twice during the following five years. Donors are invited to join the work teams – travelling at their own expense – to meet students they have sponsored.
Hong Kong volunteers are also mobilised to travel to rural schools and serve as temporary English teachers during the Easter and Christmas holidays in Hong Kong.
Volunteers also play an important role in fundraising. Almost half of the organisation’s funds are raised through sponsored events that draw hundreds of participants. These include a walk from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, a day-long hike in Hong Kong and charity soccer and golf tournaments.
In 2002, a sister organisation was registered in Vancouver, Canada, and began to raise funds there for school building in Yunnan.
In the financial year 2002-2003, Sowers Action’s total income was HKD 17.2 million (USD 2.25 million), the great majority of it donated by individual in Hong Kong, with around 10% from regular supporters.
Links
http://www.sowers.org.hk
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