The China Children and Teenagers’ Fund (CCTF) has released a survey emphasizing that development is the goal and core demand of Chinese children’s charity efforts and organizations
CCTF and the Research Center of Philanthropy and Social Enterprise (RCPSE) at Beijing Normal University jointly conducted the survey covering 45 organizations in 13 cities and provinces in China from May to October last year.
Guidance
A report was released after the survey, stating that the demands for children’s charity can be divided into children’s comprehensive demands system and the single-program system.
The former stands for the basic, special rights protection and development demands, covering all aspects of material, emotional, skills and development demands during children’s growth. The report emphasizes that development is the goal of charity efforts for children, and that the three types of demands are an integrated whole.
Meanwhile, the latter represents professional skills, service modes and cultural concepts. The three principles guide the choosing of beneficiaries, prevent them from developing a dependent relationship with the charity organizations, give them full respect while providing help, encourage them to participate in charity programs and integrate governmental resources.
“People who are active in children’s charity can use the report as a reference guide while the general public will find it a useful introduction to the field,” said Zhao Donghua, vice president of the CCTF.
"The report is a helpful reference for the civil affairs department to design a comprehensive welfare system for children and to promote the development of charity for children,” said Xu Jianzhong, a government official in charge of social welfare and charity under China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA).
Breaking Through
“The report is a milestone because it is not just about theories and analyses, but also about the building of a welfare system and services for children. It encompasses theories, strategy planning and program implementation,” said Liu Jitong, associate professor in health policy and management at Peking University.
"The report provides a helpful guide on channeling the resources donated by society and thus increasing the efficacy of those donations,” said Deng Guosheng, director of the Center for Innovation and Social Responsibility at Tsinghua University.
"The report will do much to break the traditional thinking mode on helping children, by combining public participation and the demands of charity for children. In this way, it will activate the driving force and passion of the public to donate to children’s charities,” wrote Vice Minister of MCA Dou Yupei in the preface of the report.
(Source: sina.com.cn/Translated and edited by womenofchina.cn)