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About the
Organization
The Hometown Education Foundation
(HEF)
is a charitable organization, established by Tonghai
Yang ,
to financially help the poorest students of Ningguo county and allow
them to
continue their elementary to high school education. All
donations are
tax deductible in the
The founder and director, Dr.
Tonghai Yang, is a full professor of Mathematics at the
Financial Officer: Chi Li working at
Compuware Corp., Madison.
Secretary: Tonghai Yang .
Board of Trustee Members:
Dr. Jin-Yi Cai,
Professor
of Computer Science at UW-Madison.
Holly Chen, PhD
student at
UW-Madison,
Dr. Shuanglin Chen,
working at a local company of Madison.
Mr. Chi Li, Chair
of the trustees.
Dr.
Tonghai Yang.
Here are two main persons in our partner charity---Ningguo Sino-US Education Association (NSUSEA)
Mr. Jining Hu, the founder and director of NSUSEA in charge of the daily operations in Ningguo, is an administrator at the Department of Education in Ningguo. He has observed the hardships the children have had to endure while he was working both as a middle school teacher and, later, a high school teacher. He decides with a committee of other volunteers how much financial aid can allocate to each individual child, depending of course on your donations. He reports and discusses the results with Dr. Yang before making any final decisions. He and other volunteers of NSUSEA in China, also dedicate time to raise money in China.
Mrs. Jinghuai Zheng,
the treasurer of the NSUSEA in Ningguo. She has an
undergraduate
degree in accounting in the Institute of Economics of Beng Pu
(one of the
better universities in Anhui Province), and has her own business.
One of
her primary responsibilities in NSUSEA is to balance the budget
and to
make sure that everything is in order before distributing financial
aid. In
order to make sure that all financial aid goes to the right place, she
also has
the right to refuse any payment if she has any reason to doubt it;
which she
then reports her doubts and suspcions of anything irregular to Dr. Yang
directly.
In summary, we appreciate any
donation you
contribute to this small and very useful charity; we will work hard to
make
sure that your contributions are used in the most effecicient manner to
help
the most children possible. Your contribution will make a big
impact on
young lives, for example a mere $50 dollars can help an elementary
student for
an entire year, $80 can help a middle school student for an entire
year, and
$150 can help a high school student for an entire year.
Please make your donation by writing a check payable to The Hometown Education Foundation (HEF), and send it to
The Hometown Education Foundation
c/o Tonghai Yang
9 W. Geneva Cir.
Madison, WI 53717
USA
We will update the donor list
on the
web periodically (together with donation amount) to show our
appreciation of
your generous help and the openness of the process. If you prefer to
keep your
donation anonymous, please let us know. We will keep it that way.
If you prefer personal contact, we can make arrangements for you to sponsor one or more students. We hope this will bring you even more personal satisfaction by seeing, first hand, how much of a difference your contribution makes. It costs you
$50 to sponsor an elementary school student for a year,
$80 to sponsor a middle school student for a year, and
$150 to sponsor a high school student for a year.
Here is how it works. You choose one (or more) needy student to sponsor for a year or more, and send the donation to HEF. We will give the money to the sponsored student and inform him/her of your support. We will report his/her progress to you. If you like, you are more than welcome to be in direct contact with him/her.
Again your help is greatly appreciated and will make a huge
impact on
the needy young lives. If you have any question, please feel free to
contact me
at thyang@math.wisc.edu or
(608)
263-4219.