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CREO-XINHUA COMMUNITY CARE PROGRAM LAUNCH
Shanghai, 11 December 2008: The CREO Foundation for the Children of China (CREO Foundation), Shanghai Charity Foundation (SCF), and Xinhua Community of Shanghai’s Changning District today held a joint ceremony to mark the launch of the CREO-Xinhua Community Care Program. Under the terms of the agreement signed by the parties today, the CREO Foundation, via its partnership with the SCF, the CREO-SCF Special Fund for Children, will contribute RMB 120,000 over the next two years for the implementation of the CREO-Xinhua Community Care Program, which includes the provision of scholarships, relief grants and rehabilitation subsidies to children from poor families or who have disabilities or suffer from serious medical conditions, as well as the provision of financial assistance to the Xinhua Community to support for the activities and programs that it arranges for the benefit of disabled children. During the ceremony, Mr. Richard David, Managing Director of Treasury Holdings China Limited and Ms. Kitty Xia, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of SCF, both of whom are Vice Chairs of the CREO-SCF Special Fund for Children, presented the grants to the first group of disadvantaged children, together with Mr. Jia Wei, Secretary of the Xinhua Community CPC Working Committee and Mr. Li Shiliang, Director of the Xinhua Community Council. Mr. Yuan Cai, Vice President of Shanghai Charity Foundation, Mr. Lu Jiye, Deputy Mayor of Changning District, and Mr. Robert Kellaghan, Attaché of the Irish Consulate-General in Shanghai officiated at the ceremony. The CREO-Xinhua Community Care Program will be implemented through the CREO-SCF Special Fund for Children. This is the third initiative of the CREO-SCF Special Fund, following a grant in August to provide equipment and set up a classroom in Shanghai’s Huangpu District, and the donation of education scholarships for high-performing primary and middle school students from poor families in Beijing’s Shunyi District in November. Since its establishment last year, the CREO Foundation has made, committed, and helped to raise donations totaling over RMB 2 million for charitable activities and programs in Shanghai and other Chinese cities, to assist with the education and welfare of both able and disabled children, the enrichment of lives and enhancement of the prospects of orphaned children living in the social welfare institutions, as well as the relief and recovery efforts in Sichuan in the aftermath of the earthquake devastation earlier this year. |
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