The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF), the Ministry of Education and nine other central authorities have jointly issued a notice, launching a series of educational activities nationwide to mark International Children's Day, which falls on June 1.
The China Children and Teenagers' Fund (CCTF) has worked closely with women's federations, charity-minded enterprises and social organizations to roll out diverse public welfare activities in a drive to foster a sound social environment for the all-round and healthy growth of minors.
Care for Spring Bud Girls, Safeguard Education Dream
Under the guidance of the ACWF, the CCTF has focused its assistance on Spring Bud girls in terms of financial and material aids and psychological counseling and further strengthened the care and protection network.
In May, a donation ceremony of the Spring Bud Project was held in central China's Hubei Province. A total of one million yuan (US $147,059) in scholarships was awarded to disadvantaged girls to help them continue their studies.
During a recent Spring Bud Growth Camp in Huize, a county in southwest China's Yunnan Province, a group of volunteers engaged in interactive games with local schooling girls, listened to their stories and held a special coming-of-age ceremony for them, helping them better overcome growth-related challenges and build self-confidence.
"I am grateful to all charity-minded individuals for their tremendous support. I aspire to enter a normal university and return to my hometown to be a teacher after graduation," said a Spring Bud girl at a gathering of the Spring Bud Companion program in a middle school of Yuexi County, in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
In addition, a demonstration class of the Spring Bud Dream Chorus Project was also held in Yuexi. It organized girls to travel and explore the Daliang Mountains, showing their longing and aspiration for a better life with the performance of folk songs.
Moreover, the Spring Bud Girls' Healthy Growth Project is expected to provide over 20,000 girls with sports equipment worth approximately 10 million yuan (US $1.47 million) in 15 provincial regions. Forty-six girl-friendly venues of the Spring Bud Gas Station Project have delivered numerous benefits to girls in their healthy growth and comprehensive development.
Strengthen Assistance, Safety Protection
The CCTF plans to work together with universities and women's federations nationwide to recruit 2,500 college students for implementing the 2026 summer vacation care for children initiative.
Those university students are expected to visit rural children, especially those facing difficulties, in their hometowns and/or sites of social practice activities, helping children have a joyful, fulfilling and safe vacation.
The 2026 edition of the Little Dolphin program was launched in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on May 15 to mark International Day of Families. It was scheduled to distribute packages of daily necessities, build libraries and pay home visits to disadvantaged children in a move to create an integrated assistance model involving material support, insurance coverage and mental health.
Furthermore, the CCTF has managed to send study materials and basic living supplies to disaster-affected children and their families in Guangxi, Hunan, Chongqing and Guangdong, firming up their confidence in rebuilding hometown.
Carry out Revolutionary Education, Nurture Patriotism
During their attendance of the 2026 B'in Music Children's Growth Camp in Beijing, 10 schooling girls from Yuncheng County, in east China's Shandong Province, paid a tribute to the Monument to the People's Heroes, listened to revolutionary stories of martyrs, and toured around China Science and Technology Museum.
The visit to former revolutionary sites helped participants grasp a deep understanding of noble ideals and unwavering commitments behind revolutionary predecessors to save the country and its people from peril.
The China Youth Volunteer Academy program has organized a series of thematic activities over revolutionary education and cultural inheritance in Beijing. For instance, a fundraising event was held to collect funds for building activity centers for rural primary schools in Sichuan.
Reading Instills Soul, Promotes Growth
With the support of the Central Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy and Beijing Radio & Television Station, the CCTF convened the First Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Youth Reading & Recitation Competition in the capital city on May 31.
It is expected to draw the participation of about 50,000 children and teenagers aged between 4 and 18 and their families across the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. It is also intended to promote the integration of cultural resources and advance public reading with tangible results in the forms of works collection, masters' lectures and construction of public reading spaces.
Meanwhile, the CCTF has sponsored a wide range of activities like the recitation of classical literature and the appreciation of cultural works to guide children gain a deep understanding of traditional Chinese culture.
The Little Migratory Bird libraries in Henan and other regions have brought kids from migrant families together to read illustrated books and take part in interactive games.
Nurture Comprehensive Competence, Provide Diverse Empowerment
The CCTF has rolled out a number of public welfare initiatives, which are themed with rural aesthetics, health on campus and other topics, to foster children with an all-round moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic grounding.
The aesthetics-oriented public welfare programs have empowered rural children by soliciting their opinions about ideal arts classrooms, building special aesthetic classrooms and offering them aesthetics products, exhibition walls and free doodling areas.
During an activity, children jointly created a 10-meter-long painting scroll and clay artworks. A teacher said the importance of aesthetic education lies in that children's creative artworks deserve public recognition.
The CCTF has also helped Spring Bud girls earn valuable opportunities to exhibit their paintings, paper-cutting and other craftworks at a national youth arts show in the China National Museum of Women and Children.
In addition, the CCTF has unveiled a project titled "Nutritional Food for Future Generation" in Xinle County, in north China's Hebei Province, to promote scientific and healthy dietary concepts among local children through classroom lectures and interactive scientific popularization activities.
The CCTF has also launched a project in Weiyuan County in northwest China's Gansu Province to provide canteen workers in local kindergartens, primary and middle schools with systematic training and lectures on food safety management and nutritional cooking practices.
Harness Public Welfare Strengths, Safeguard Children's Sound Growth
During the celebration of this year's International Children's Day, the CCTF also cooperated with women's federations in over 20 provincial regions on the implementation of public welfare festivals.
For instance, fundraising activities and footstep donation activities are held from May 28 to June 16 to pool public strengths and help children continue their studies.
The CCTF will adopt such measures as targeted assistance, the cultivation of revolutionary beliefs, the cultivation of talents through reading, and the empowerment of public welfare initiatives to integrate charitable resources from different social sectors and expand talent cultivation platforms, helping guide children to chase personal dream on the new journey and endeavor to be a new generation capable of shouldering the great mission of national rejuvenation.
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(Source: CCTF/Women of China)
Editor: Lei Yang
