Working staff of the China Children and Teenagers' Foundation (CCTF), representatives from southwest China's Guizhou Women's Federation and charitable enterprises visit Luo Yu and Luo Xia, two girls who are beneficiaries of the Spring Bud Project launched by the CCTF. [Guizhou Women's Federation]

The China Children and Teenagers' Foundation (CCTF) donated 9.34 million yuan (US$ 1.53 million) to southwest China's Guizhou Women's Federation on September 9, 2013, to help them promote local women's and children's welfare.

The donation ceremony was held at a primary school in Biandan Township in the Zhenning Buyi and Miao Autonomous County of Anshun City as part of a large-scale charity activity launched by the CCTF in Beijing in conjunction with the China Children's Charity Day in June 2013.

Aside from CCTF's donation, local charitable enterprises also donated 300,000 yuan (US$ 49,050) to the Guizhou Women and Children's Foundation, helping 360 students buy new clothes and stationery.

Ambassador to CCTF's charity activity and famous singer Jin Bo also performed with the children during the event.

Later, led by CCTF's deputy secretary-general Wu Zhenying and Vice President of Guizhou Women's Federation Wei Jun, a delegation of representatives of women's federations across the province and charitable companies visited left-behind children in Huanie Village in Biandan Township. 'Left-behind children' refers to children whose parents have left their rural homes to seek better paying jobs in cities.

The delegation paid a specific visit to Luo Yu and Luo Xia, two girls who are beneficiaries of the Spring Bud Project, which was launched by the CCTF in 1989 to help poverty-stricken girls return to school. They also talked to students at the Niutian Primary School in Machang Village.

CCTF working staff and representatives from the Hengyuanxiang Group, one of China's top woolen consumables companies, visited orphans and disabled children living in the welfare home in the province's capital city of Guiyang, to assess the implementation of the Heng'ai Action.

Jointly sponsored by the CCTF and Hengyuanxiang Group, the Heng'ai Action was established in 2005 to appeal to the public through the medium of women's federations and foundations in various regions to knit sweaters for disabled children and disadvantaged orphans.

With the participation of southern China's Hainan Women's Federation and charity organizations in southeast China's Taiwan Province this year, the Heng'ai Action is officially expanded to all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions nationwide, Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC).

By June 2013, more than 690,000 children had received sweaters from benefactors across the country as of June 2013. Guizhou has been involved in the project for six years and donated more than 17,300 hand-knit sweaters for disadvantaged children within the province.

The China Children and Teenagers' Foundation (CCTF) donates 9.34 million yuan (US$ 1.53 million) to southwest China's Guizhou Women's Federation to help them promote local women's and children's welfare on September 9, 2013. [Guizhou Women's Federation]

The large-scale charity activity launched by CCTF in conjunction with the China Children's Charity Day aims to further promote the nationwide development of charity work for children.

According to the CCTF, they plan to send five groups of representatives from the foundation, the All China Women's Federation, media and charitable organizations and companies to assess the implementation of more than 30 charity projects launched by the CCTF in 10 provinces and also to donate approximately 50 million yuan (US$ 8.16 million) to needy children over the next few months.

Some of the projects include the Safe and Healthy Growth Project that aims to keep children safe from injury, illness and crime and the Action to Eliminate Infant Anemia which aims to improve the nutrition of infants aged 6 to 36 months old in poverty-stricken rural areas by providing infants with food supplements.

The China Children's Charity Day was set up by the CCTF in 2002 as an occasion to promote the public's awareness of charities for children in China. Over the past decade, it has become a major event observed by the foundation and has also served as a platform calling for more people to be involved in charity work and also for people to express their care for children.

Vice President of Guizhou Women's Federation Wei Jun addresses the donation ceremony during which the China Children and Teenagers' Foundation (CCTF) and charitable enterprises donated money to improve Guizhou women's and children's welfare in southwest China's Guizhou Province on September 9, 2013 [Guizhou Women's Federation]

Working staff of the China Children and Teenagers' Foundation (CCTF), representatives from southwest China's Guizhou Women's Federation and charitable enterprises take a group photo with rural children on September 9, 2013. [Guizhou Women's Federation]

Working staff of the China Children and Teenagers' Foundation (CCTF), representatives from southwest China's Guizhou Women's Federation and charitable enterprises present subsidies to the disabled children in the welfare home in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, on September 9, 2013. [Guizhou Women's Federation]

(Source: China Women's News & Guizhou Women's Federation / Translated by womenofchina.cn)