Jian Hua Foundation Ltd
Mission: "[To] build China through cooperation in education, development, medical and social services, serving her peoples with compassion, integrity & expertise."
In China since: 1981
Annual China budget: $4,000,000
Number of staff: 100 national and 195 expatriate
Mainland China contact:
Martin Klopper
Chief Representative
Apt 502 Gate 5 An Da Gong Yu Binshui Dao, Tiyuanbei
Tianjin He Xi District 300060
Tel: +86 (0)22 2392 6614
Fax: +86 (0)22 2392 7942
Stephan Wang
Representative
Qinghai
International Contact:
Peter Anderson (安德生)
International Director
Units 901-3, Mongkok Harbour Center 638 Shanghai Street
Hong Kong Mongkok Kowoloon
Tel: +852 2336 5312
Fax: +852 2337 2965
Mailing Address:
PO Box 71675 Kowloon CPO
Hong Kong
Religious Affiliation:
Christian
Originally established in Hong Kong in 1981, the foundation is now also incorporated in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and USA. It began by placing volunteer teachers from many different countries in Chinese universities. From the early 1990s, some of the volunteers began to design social development projects to address needs in the localities where they were teaching. Jian Hua has mobilised funding for several such projects, which are now overseen by representative offices in Tianjin and Xining, Qinghai. The Foundation also provides relief aid following disasters, and in several cases this has evolved into longer-term rural development programmes.
Community development programmes in Hebei’s Qing County (青县) and Inner Mongolia’s Kulun Banner (库伦旗) have included microfinance, water and sanitation, irrigation, and teacher training components, along with training for health workers and a special medical fund to cover expenses for indigent patients with serious conditions. JHF has also experimented with urban community development, including microfinance programmes, in Tianjin and Zhangjiakou.
The Foundation has worked in rural health in Qinghai since 1999. It is currently collaborating with the Huangnan Medical School and Tongren County Hospital to provide two, eight-week courses each year for village doctors and midwives, using a specially designed curriculum. In Hainan prefecture, the Foundation has worked with local partners to develop adult literacy materials.
In Tianjin, the Foundation has helped to establish special education classes, along with training and support for teachers and parents of children with special needs. It also organises summer training programmes to help rural teachers relate better to children with special needs. In Hunan, the Foundation has placed teachers in a school for the deaf.
In Lijiang, Yunnan, JHF manages four, family style homes for orphans, each home housing eight children.
In Weihai, Shandong JHF has opened a Jianhua School of Foreign Languages, and it hopes in due course to establish branches of this in poorer regions.
In 2003 a total of 195 expatriate professionals were working in China under Jian Hua’s auspices, in agriculture, medicine, accounting, business management, law, computers, science, engineering and language teaching (English, Japanese and German).
JHF is funded by individual donors and by grants, tied to specific relief and development projects, from international government and non-governmental funding agencies. Expatriate associates placed in China work as volunteers.
Links
http://www.jhf-hk.org
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