Yearly Financial Summary

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Summary of Year 2010:

We received $8025 generous donation by March 5, 2010. We are able to support over 600 needy students in Ningguo Anhui and YuZhe, Shanxi. Please use your generous donation to help us to support them and others in similar dire conditions next year. Your donation goes to the needy students 100 percent and is tax deductible. Thanks a lot for your generous support in advance.

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

Hometown Education Foundation
c/o Tonghai Yang
9 W. Geneva Cir.
Madison, WI 53717

or simply use Google Checkout (left) to make an online donation(very simple).

Summary of Year 2009:

1. Thank you all very much for your generous support. We received $39212.17 this year from about 200 generous donors like you. We received a record $10066 donation in November. We are very happy and grateful with the steady growth of this program (last year we receive about $28400 generous donation). It makes a big difference to the poor kids we are trying to help. We appreciate all your support very very much. Among the most notable and inspiring are an anonymous $5000 donation in November, 85 years old Mrs. Chen's sponsoring a middle school student Yaqin Zhang, and Dr. Xun Jiang's big effort to inform and get his friends to support us.

2. We are able to support 600 needy students (see list here--Chinese) in Ningguo during 2009-10 with about 319100 Yuans (a little more than $46000). We are also able to support 20 high school students in YuShe High School, YuShe County Shanxi Province with $3000. We shift more support to high school students (96 this year comparing to 50 last year in Ningguo). It is much more expensive to have a high school education which is not mandatory. Thank you very much for your generous support.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

Hometown Education Foundation
c/o Tonghai Yang
9 W. Geneva Cir.
Madison, WI 53717

You are welcome to donate through the Google Checkout (left) if you prefer (very simple). All of your donation goes directly to the needy students 100 percent, and is tax deductible.

Summary of the Year 2008

  1. Thank you very much for your generous support, we received more than $28348 this year in US and our partner in Ningguo received more than $20000 generous donation in China. We sent $24000 to Ningguo last July and we are able to support 600 needy students in Ningguo this year.
  2. Thanks a lot to Mr Yonghong Ren's and his friend Mr. Jianming Wang, a high school teacher at the YuShe County High School of Shan Xi Province, we have just established the second branch in China at this high school. We support 20 needy high school students in this high school (the only high school in the county) with $3000 generous donation from you.
  3. I visited the needy students in Ningguo twice this academic year, both in the Winter Break and Summer Break (click for photos). The needy students and their families appreciate your support very much. It really helped them a lot. Local volunteers did a very good job choosing needy students.
  4. Four students we supported were accepted to college this year. Fang Liu (girl) was accepted to the Beijing University of Science and Technology with very high score of 616 (out of 750). Cun Liu (girl) was accepted to the Shandong Univeristy of Science and Technology. Fei Jin (girl) was accepted to the Tong Ling Insitute (in Anhui), and Shuming Gao (boy) was accepted to the Xin Hua Institute (in Anhui). You can see their photos here.
  5. Chinese Government has made an effort recently to reduce the cost of elementary and middle school education for students by 1/3 for 5-9th graders and about 1/2 for 1-4th graders. Now the students in 1-9th grade don't need pay anything except for books and homework books. In theory, they don't need pay for textbooks. In practice, they have to pay for all kinds of books which are not textbooks in theory but in practice used in classrooms, e.g., homework books, extra exercise books, and books in subjects like biology, geography and so on. Books get more expensive due to inflation. High school students need more than 3000 yuans (about $500) a year for tuition, books, boarding, and other fees, not including food.
  6. We received more than $200 from `GoodSearch' and `GoodShop' by using them for searching and shopping on line. Please use them to help us. It is very simple, and totally free. Please enourage others to use it to help us too.

To help these poor kids and others in similar dire condition, we need your generous support. We hope to have earned your trust with our hard work. Please consider supporting us by sending your generous donation (payable to Hometown Education Foundation) to

Hometown Education Foundation
c/o Tonghai Yang
9 W. Geneva Cir.
Madison, WI 53717

or using Google Checkout (left) to make an online donation (very simple). Your donation goes to the needy students 100 percent! Please enourage your friends to support us too. Together we do make a difference.

Thanks a lot for your generous support in advance.

Best regards,

Tonghai Yang

Year 2008:

$28348.71 by December 31st, 2008.

We are able to support 600 needy students (Chinese) in Ningguo during 2008-09 with about $40,000 (284000 Yuans), up from last year's 473 needy students. It includes 50 high school students, 249 middle school students, 290 elementary school students, and one college student who was supported by Professors Li and Liao. For the first time, we are able to support another 20 high school students outside Ningguo County, i.e., at YuShe High School, Shanxi Province thanks to big effort of Mr. Yonghon Ren(a generous donor from the area) and Mr. Jianmin Wang (at the school).

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 bubsiness.

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.

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