On a crisp autumn day in Beijing, 13 th September 2018 was a proud and exciting day for all volunteers, friends, officials, teachers, and students of ShinShin Education Foundation. The Ministry of Civil Affairs praised Shin Shin and awarded the foundation the highest and the most important China Charity Award during the tenth China Charity Award ceremony in the majestic Great Hall of the People. ShinShin Education Foundation volunteers in America and China along with another twenty-seven individuals and charities were rated as Models of Chinese Charity.
Shin Shin Educational Foundation Chairperson and The Chief representative
of Beijing Representative Office Ding Yongqing holding the award trophy. The Ministry of Civil Affairs Models of Chinese Charity award was set up to recognize individuals, enterprises, and projects who have made outstanding contributions to the development of philanthropy in China. The Ministry of Civil Affairs set up a jury of the tenth annual Models of Chinese Charity composed by the relevant departments, deputies of the NPC, CPPCC members, industry organizations, experts and scholars, and awarded the outstanding contributors. This was the first time the Models of Chinese Charity award was issued after the enactment of the Charity Act last year.
The award scene
Shin Shin Education Foundation is a charity which is a non-family, non-enterprise foundation to support society by helping people without any return, so it is so valuable to receive the Models of Chinese Charity award. Shin Shin Education Foundation is the only non-government, overseas organization among all winners. Given to all countless Shin Shin volunteers, it is the highest award and praise based on twenty-one years of continuous hard work and cooperation with the government for improving remote, poor, rural area education by using pragmatic approaches. At the same time, the award encourages the selfless officials, teachers, and students of 350 Shin Shin Education Foundation network in 25 provinces across China.
Shin Shin Education Foundation Chairperson Ding Yongqing (right) and President Yang Yiqing (left) at the 4 th National Shin Shin Volunteer Meeting
In 2017, with the recommendation of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council and the support of the Registration Management Office of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, the foundation submitted an application to the tenth annual China Charity Award jury. In September 2018, Shin Shin Education Foundation China and America participated in the China Charity Award Commendation Conference. Shin Shin Education Foundation Beijing Representative Office Chief Representative Ding YongQing and Beijing Representative Office Chief Representative Assistant Xu Ying attended the Grand Commendation Conference in the Great Hall. As members of the Shin family, they were very excited and grateful, and they were very proud of the hard work and dedication of the Shin Shin China and America volunteers and the principals, teachers, and students of all Shin Shin schools.
The certificate of the China Charity Award
In 1997, the San Francisco Bay Area Chinese as well as other Chinese overseas started the Shin Shin Education Foundation, which used meager retirement savings to help build and remodel school buildings in impoverished schools in their hometowns of the northeast. Over the past 20 years and more, with the participation, support, and assistance of thousands of overseas Chinese and domestic volunteers, as well as government at all levels, the 350 most needy small schools of the hinterland in mainland China have been rebuilt and repaired. Also, Shin Shin has provided training for teachers as well as training for students in computers, programming, essay writing, and other topics in addition to the provisioning of audio equipment and other infrastructure improvements. The cumulative donation of up to about 100 million yuan (data statistics through the end of November 2017), so that more than 2000 teachers and principals were trained and more than 400,000 children benefited.
Shin Shin Educational Foundation Chairperson and Beijing Representative
Office Chief Representative Ding Yongqing with Beijing Representative Office Chief Representative Assistant Xu Ying Never to forget our original intention, always under the recognition, support, assistance, and encouragement of the Chinese government, the Sino-American volunteers will continue to cooperate with the government in the areas where resources have not been provided, deep in the rural countryside, to continue to pragmatically promote the balanced development of urban and rural education, striving diligently.
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