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Amity Foundation is an independent, voluntary non-governmental
organization in China.
The organization was initiated by Chinese Christians, who founded the Amity in 1985 to promote health, education, social services and rural development in China. The work that the Amity Foundation does in the orphanages is just one small aspect of the services that this organization has provided for the last 15 years. |
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However, the services provided to the orphanages are important and far-reaching. They are involved in 38 orphanages in seven different provinces. Their projects include school tuition scholarships, medical support, providing |
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| basic equipment, Grandmothers (Hugging Grannies) and foster care. Amity benefits from the support of China's Christian community, but it's social service programs are exclusively humanitarian. To cover its operating costs, Amity retains seven percent of all donations. They are a well known organization with an excellent reputation. Some Families with Children from China groups, especially the New York group, are sponsoring projects through Amity in various regions of China. | ||
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Wu An 'An, the
Director of the Social Welfare Division for the Amity Foundation is in charge of the Orphan Support
Project. She works closely with us, providing information and ideas
about needs and success stories in the orphanages.
She also heads up Amity's Special Education projects for children with disabilities, coordinating assistance for the children with mental and physical challenges. |
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Quotes
from the Amity Foundation web site:
"Our staff must all go to the grass roots. We work with local officials but we should not just consider ourselves as project "funders". We are in fact "facilitators" or "enablers", monitoring and screening projects. To ensure that people at the grassroots receive the help they need, we must reach the grassroots in our evaluation and screening of projects." "We should fully recognize the contributions of our local partners and the local people. In project-funding, our "Three-in-one Principle" has been very successful and should be maintained. It is a requirement in our projects that Amity only contributes one-third of the necessary funds while the local government provides a third and the local people contribute another third either in cash or in the form of labor." "The Amity Teacher Program emphasizes Christian service, and encourages Christian participants to bear witness to their faith through their teaching work and through participation with Chinese churches, rather than through efforts to proselytize. Teachers can and almost inevitably will talk with Chinese people about all aspects of life, including faith, but Amity sees the primary contribution of Christian foreign teachers in China as arising from their teaching work. Amity has no hidden agenda." For further information, please visit the Amity Foundation site.
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