Year 2008: $13993 by August 28th, 2008. We are able to support 473 needy students(Chinese) during 2007-08 with about $30,000 thanks to your generous support, up from last year's 390 needy students. It includes 36 high school students, 183 middle school students, 253 elementary school students, and one college student who was supported by Professors Li and Liao since her freshman year in high school. In addition, we help about 30 students in a high school get direct support from local business. Thank you very much for your generous support. We need your support to continue helping these and other students in similar dire conditions. 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, WI53717
   USA

All your donation goes directly to the needy students 100 percent, and is tax deductible.

Year 2007: $25959 by December 30th, 2007. We are able to support 471 needy students during 2007-08 thanks to your generous support, up from last year's 390 needy students. In addition, we help about 30 students in a high school get direct support from local business.

Year 2006: $17222.25 by December 31th, 2006. We are able to support 390 needy students during 2006-07 thanks to your generous support.

Year 2005: $12105 by December 28th, 2005. We are able to support 256 needy students during 2005-06 thanks to your generous support. We need your support to continue helping these and other students in similar dire conditions.
Year 2004: $8580. We were able to support 223 needy students during 2004-05 thanks to your generous support.

We received almost $26,000 generous donation from you during the fisical year of 2007. In summer we sent $20,000 to Ningguo County, Anhui China to 473 needy students for the academic year 2007-08 (together with about $15,000 donation from China), up from last year's 390. The cost for supporting these students is about $30,000. In addition, our partner Ningguo Sino-US Education Association helped secure local business's direct support of 30 needy students in one local high school. Thanks a lot for your generous support which makes this happen.

     2.   I visited the needy students twice this year, one during the summer, and one during the winter break. I saw in person their plight   and their appreciation of your generous support. For example, Yan Jun is a 4^th grader. His father fell down from a house more than one year ago while working as a construction worker and injured himself badly. Nothing below his neck could move. The contractor paid the initial $2000 medical expense, but refused to pay afterwards. His father died in May with about $6000 debt and lawsuit not done yet. Imagine how devastating this accident is to him, his mother, and his grandma. Now imagine how horrible it is for his mother to choose between using little money they borrow to pay for her husband’s medicine to keep him alive and to hope for his recovery or using it to pay for her son’s vital education. Thanks to your support, she did at least not need to make a decision on this. Jing Li is a 3rd grader born in 1997. Her father died three years ago of car accident, and her mother left. She lives with her aging grandma and depends on his father's sister's help for living. Please check Summer-07 and Winter-07 for more stories.

   3. Dr. Ren Yonghong donated extremely generously almost $3000 stock options, and intends to find trusted people in his home county in Shanxi, China to establish a similar partner (as in Ningguo) to support needy kids there using your generous support. Special thanks to him.

    4. Congratulations to four of our supported high school students Mr. Hu Zi-Yun, Miss Yan Li-Min,   Mr. Jan Hun, and Miss Fan Lin-Jun who overcome financial and other difficulty to be accepted to regular colleges through the highly competitive college entrance exam. In particular, Hu Zi-Yun has not only overcome his family difficulty but also his own heart surgery less than one year ago. He got into Shanxi Medical University to study medicine---his dream---to help other patients like his father and himself in future. For their photos and other photos related to my recent visit to the needy kids, please check

http://www.hometowneducation.org/Summer07/Summer07-1.html

5. Special thanks to Drs. Li Jian-Shu and Liao Ren-Lan, who decided to continue to support Miss Yan Li-Min through college. They have supported her through high school.

6. Special thanks to Drs. Adems, who gave Miss Fan Lin-Jun extra $150 to help reduce her burden during her first year of college.

7. We received ovwe $200 from `www.goodsearch.com’ through your using it for online search. Now you can also use it for your online shopping to benefit our cause. Please see its webpage (above) for simple instruction. Please ask your friends and colleagues to use it to help us too.

To continue supporting these kids and hopefully others in similar dire conditions, we need your (continued) support. If you have not contributed yet this year, it would be great if you would consider doing it now. Please encourage your friends to support us too. Together we do make a difference. Please be assured again that all your donation goes to the needy students 100 percent! Please check our website

http://www.hometowneducation.org/

for more information. Your donation is tax deductible. To make a donation, please send a check payable to HEF to

Hometown Education Foundation

c/o Tonghai Yang

9 W. Geneva Cir.

Madison, WI 53717

Thank you all very much again for your generous support!

Best regards,

Tonghai Yang

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