'Spring Bud' Project Offers Financial Aid to Poverty-stricken Female Students in Xiamen

Xiamen Women's Federation recently hosted the 2015 "Spring Bud" Love Donation and Education Grants Award ceremony. [Fujian Women's Federation/Wei Wei]

Xiamen Women's Federation recently hosted the 2015 "Spring Bud" Love Donation and Education Grants Award ceremony.

In the first half year of this year, Xiamen Women's Federation and Provincial Women and Children's Development Foundation jointly conducted a survey on poverty-stricken children in Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian Province, and those that had been supported by the project in previous years. This time 945 children were sponsored, among whom there were 71 female college students, 541 middle school and 333 primary school students. The total fund came to 740,100 yuan (U.S. $116,000).

The "Spring Bud" project was first initiated by the All-China Women's Federation and China Children and Teenagers' Foundation. It aims at mobilizing all social forces to help poverty-stricken girls, or those set to drop out of school. Since the initiative was carried out in Xiamen during 1994, subsidized objectives have been expanded to all underprivileged primary and middle school students, impoverished female college students and rural left-behind children.

Xiamen Women's Federation recently hosted the 2015 "Spring Bud" Love Donation and Education Grants Award ceremony. [Fujian Women's Federation/Wei Wei]

Xiamen Women's Federation recently hosted the 2015 "Spring Bud" Love Donation and Education Grants Award ceremony. [Fujian Women's Federation/Wei Wei]

Xiamen Women's Federation recently hosted the 2015 "Spring Bud" Love Donation and Education Grants Award ceremony. [Fujian Women's Federation/Wei Wei]

(Source: China Women's News/Translated and edited by Women of China)