From: wy@apmaths.uwo.ca (YANAN WU)
Subject: SOS China Education Fund asks for your participation!
Organization: Applied Mathematics, U.W.O
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:33:58 GMT
Keywords: participation

Dear Friends,
    DO YOU KNOW when you and I are enjoying the daily abundant life in
overseas, there are STILL 50 million people living under proverty line
in China?
    DO YOU KNOW when we are praying for the  democracy  will arrive in
China sooner, there are STILL  200 million  illiterates  living on our
mother land?
    DO YOU KNOW when some of us are celebrating that we may be able to
stay in North America as  long  as we wish, there are  STILL more than
one million children in China begging for their small rights: GOING TO
SCHOOL!?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!                                  !
! Cuihua kneeled down,"Mommy, if   ! 
! you let me go back to school, I  !
! will skip my lunch from tomorrow !
! on." ...                         !
!                                  !
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    In Da Ba Mountain area, Sichuan province,  a girl called Wang Cui-
hua was forced to drop out school by her parents. Cuihua's mother said 
to her:"My girl, how can the family afford both your school and every-
one's food in the family?"   Cuihua  kneeled  down,  crying to beg her 
mother,"Mommy, if you let me  go back to school,  I will skip my lunch 
from tomorrow on."    Little Cuihua was able to go back to school, but 
every noon,   she went to sit on  a small hill  outside  her school in 
order not to let her teachers and classmates  know she had no food for 
lunch.  Every noon to her, a ten-year-old child, seemed longer ...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!                                    !
! Over One Million primary school    !
! students like Wang Cuihua drop     !
! out school every year due to       !
! proverty.                          !
!                                    !
! Among every FOUR illiterates in    !
! the world, there is ONE CHINESE!!  !
!                                    !
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Friends, maybe  we  have  been  used to such a comfortable life in 
here;   maybe we  have been overwhelmed by  the news and reports about
economical leap from southern China,  so that we can not believe these 
are all true.   But dear friends,  it is the  REALITY  that although a 
rapid economic growth in some places, there are still about 50 million  
people in a large portion of poor mountain areas in China,  whose each 
annual income is  under  200-300 Chinese Yuan (mainland).  It is impo-
ssible for a family with such an income, after deducting taxes, paying 
debts and buying basic living goods,  to support their child  going to 
school, who has to pay  40-50 yuan  each year only for book fees,  let 
alone there are usually several children in such a family.
    It is the REALITY that with an increasing size of porpulation, the 
mainland Chinese government spending on  every primary school student, 
after excluding administration spenses, is only about  60 Yuan  every 
year, although the government has increased budgets for education dur-
ing recent years.  The 60 Yuan can just  barely maintain  the salaries 
of the teachers.
    It is the REALITY that in China there are about 1.09 million prim-
ary school students  like Wang Cuihua  who have to drop out school due 
to family proverty.   
    It is the REALITY that among  every four illiterates in the world, 
there is one Chinese!!  And this number may will increase if more kids 
drop out school due to proverty.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!                                !
! "NO MATTER HOW POOR WE ARE,    !
!  WE CAN NOT LET EDUCATION BE   !
!  POOR!!                        !
!                                !
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    "NO MATTER HOW POOR WE ARE, WE CAN NOT LET EDUCATION BE POOR!" 
This is the cry from the poor area in CHINA.
    To achive richness and democracy on a land which lives 20 million
illiterates is the reality we face.
    But YOU and I can make a difference to help out this situation.
    SOS China Education Fund (SOS CEF)  invites you to join our hands 
together to extend our love and help to our motherland.    SOS CEF is 
an independent, nonprofit organization registered in USA. It provides 
a chance for all of us to work together to help the children and sch-
ools in those poor areas even though we are  hundreds  of miles away.  
      YOUR DONATION of $9 (US) = 50 YUAN for a student's annual book
      fees = two sets of wooden desks and chairs (for four students)
      = 10 pounds of meat food for a family's simple life of a teacher
      in those areas = ...  
    Please read a general introduction of SOS CEF included.    If you 
have any questions,  please do not hesitate to contact us through any 
of  an  address  given  in  the  introduction.     We look forward to 
your  response  so that  we  can  work together  to contribute to our 
motherland.
                                       SOS China Education Fund 
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