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June 6 (2010): Ms Hannah O Day has not only sponsored 7 students (3 elementary school, 1 middle school, and 3 highn school students) but also made a big effort to get the Hometown Education Foundation listed in IBM's charity list so that employees can donate to HEF through IBM. She also spreaded words to others about the HEF. Thank you very much for your very generous support, Hannah.
On May 30, Prof. Cheng informed me that his class has donated $216 to support 3 students.
On May 6, after the exam, my Math 319 students donated total $205 (all anonymous into a donation box). Thank you all!
On April 28, the Chinese Undergraduate Student Association at UW-madison donated $260 (dontion from students) to the charity. They plan to organize 12 students to visit and teach in 3 middle schools in Ningguo, Anhui, China. This is 2nd time they do this. They will also visit poor kids in this area.
On march 25, Miss Amanda Hittson, a graduate student at UW-Madison, very generously donated $1000. We also received another generous $650 donation from Ms Hu to continue sponsoring 5 students and three more. Thanks a lot for all your generous support.
On march 12, we received very generous donation of $1500 from Mr. N. Christie in UK. He found us from the internet. Thank you so much for your generous support, Mr. Christie.
With one week of hard work, I have finally sorted out near two hundred letters from the sponosored needy students and sent most of them to their sponsors. Some volunteers have helped to translate the letters to the non-Chinese speaking sponsors. They are moving and appreciative and informative. I have read all the letters arrived and are moved by them. Some of them are now in the web. Please check it out at
http://www.hometowneducation.org/letters.html
March 5 is another big day for HEF. Ho Au-Yeung donated $1000 to sponsor 9 students. He sponsored 7 students last year and 5 the year before. We also received $1000 matching-up donation from Motorola which matches up Chun Liu and Heng Zhang's generous donation last year. Thank you all for your very generous support and trust.
On March 4, 2010, Jing Zou, a Ningguo native, recruited her laws (Mark, Olga and Ryu; Joost and Corry) in Netherlands to donate $400 through Google Checkout. Thank you all for your generous support.
On Janurary 19, 2010, a generous donor donates $1500 anonymously. Thanks a lot for your generous support.
Mrs. Chen, 85, at California, contacted me today (December 20, 2009) to sponsor a middle schoo or highschool girl today. What an inspiring story. Thank you very much, Mrs. Chen. A couple of days ago, Amy from New Jersey that she will sponsor a student in the name of her parents-in-law, who prefer helping the poor kids than receiving a gift. It is really moving. Thank you all. We will continue to work hard and will not disappoint you.
Today (Dec. 10, 2009), I had the last exam for my Math234 class (about 200 students), and asked for their donation of of changes to the Hometown Education Foundation. Guess what, we got a total $288 donation, a very nice gift to the poor students. Thank you all!
What a thanksgiving gift for the Hometown Education Foundation! Today (Nov. 27, 2009) we received a surprising $5000 donation from the United Way of Greater Rochester, New York, which indicated the donation as anonymous. It will help more than 60 middle school students for a year (or more than 80 Elementary School students or 33 high school students)!!! We also received $50 generous donation from Yin family and $75 from Baker family today! Please be assured that all these donation goes to the needy students 100 percent! Please help us with your generous donation too. Thanks!
Phil Moy wrote an article on UCS Weekly about the charity on November 20, 2009.
We received $231 from Goodsearch.com on November 20 for our online search and online shopping through Goodsearch.com. It is free money for us to earn. Please help us earn more by using www.GoodSearch.com for your online search and online shopping starting point.
Xun Jiang helped to create a banner advertisement of the HEF for free at Younexus.com on October 10, 2009.
October 9 is a great day. We received a very generous $1000 donation from Ying-Qing Wu/Lin Ding and two new donors---Yang Wang/Weixin Xu will sponsor 3 students, and Luoying Weng, a graduate student at Stony Brook, made her first donation. Thank you all for your generous support.
Yi Wang and Zhiren Wang, two graduate students at Princeton University, sponsored Min Yang, a 8th grader in Ningguo. Min Yang has been handicapped since birth and her father is sick too.
Mr. Bingzhi Zhao, an undergraduate at UW-Madison, has spent last summer to redesign the website of Hometown Education Foundation. Thanks a lot to his hard work, we now have a much nicer website. Since there are quite a lot changes, there might be mistakes. If you see any, please let me know (thyang@math.wisc.edu).
I visited five needy students' families on July 6, 2009, and saw direct impact of your support on these poor kids and their families. They (and the teachers) appreciated your support very much, and your support made real difference to them. Please check here for photos and brief description of their situations. It was a humbe and moving experience to me to see how they deal with such hardship.
12 volunteers from UW-Madison Chinese Undergraduate Students Association went to 3 middle schools in Ningguo during June 8-12 to teach English and introduce US to the students at a more presonal level. They also went to poor students' homes to investigate the situations. Local people were very impressed by their work, and they learned a lot from the experience.
Here is their article.(Microsoft Word 2003 or above is required)
Dr. Xun Jiang wrote to his friends to encourage them to support the Hometown Education Foundation on April 26. His friends Jinrong Wang, Ling Chen, Yan Tian, Feng Qian, Xun Yu, Yin Liu, Ping Wang, Anzhi Lai, and Yu Rao have responded with generous donations of total $930. Thank you all.
Mrs Bi Jia and her 3rd grader son Brian have written letters to their 6 sponsored students. Read a sample of 3 letters here.
Thanks to the help of Mr. Yu Chen, a visiting UW-student, the supported student information from Yu She High School, ShanXi is now on web. We started to support 20 high school students there since last Fall.
The United Chinese Scholars and Students has just donated $1430.17 to the Hometown Education Foundation. Thank Luyan Li, Zhifeng Li, Jianming Zhang and all at the organization for your generous support and trust.
John Zhu, a graduate student at UC-Berkeley , has just sponsored three needy elementary students. Many thanks!
I did an interview last year to be appeared in `Chinese Mathematics Society Communication' soon. Part of it is about the Hometown Education Foundation. Here is the article.
Students have sent their thank-you letters to their sponsors, expressing their appreciation and telling about their progress duing last years. Some of the letters can now be read here
Zhaohui Wu & Yuhong Yang sponsored 7 needy students with generous $640 donation, including 3 elementary school students, 2 middle school and 2 high school students.
We now have a cause `Hometown Education Foundation' on Facebook. We have already had over 100 members there and $60 donation there. Please add Hometown Education Foundation to your cause to show your support.
Walter Cai, a local high school student at Madison, WI, donated his own allowance $150 in January to sponsor Hu Yi, a poor high school in Ningguo, Anhui, China. He has sponsored Hu Yi for three years so far.
Alec Johnson, a graduate student at UW-Madison, has recently sponsored six needy students with $600 generous donation, including 2 high school students, 3 middle school students, and one elementary school student. Thank you very much, Alec.
Peter Yang, a 9 years old boy, went to the 2008 Killerspin Invitational and Holiday Open Table Tennis Tournament (December 27-29) to compete.
He won the Under 1000 Champion trophy together with $25 certificate. He also won $75 when he and his partner Mr. Aaron Avery got the 2nd place in their team competition (under 3000). He was very happy and donated half of his award ($50) to the charity. He also donated $50 of his allowance to the charity.
Summary 2008: We received $27800 generous donation from almost 160 generous donors. Together with more than $20000 generous donation our partner received in China, we are able to support needy students in Ninnguo Anhui Province, and 20 high school students in Yushe County High School, Shanxi Province, China.
A letter from Miss Limin Yan(Microsoft Word 2003 or above required) (December 22, 2008), a college student sponsored by Professors Li and Liao at Hong Kong UST since she was in high school.
List of Students we support for the academic year 2008-09(Microsoft Excel 2003 or above required)
Mr. Jining Hu and Dening Peng went to schools to check on students we supported (Dec. 2008)
Some students Dr. Tonghai Yang visited when he went back to China during summer 2008.