The Amity Foundation

Modernization Qinghai Style

During a project visit to the Tibetan Autonomous Region in Qinghai Beate Engelen from the Hong Kong office discovered what modernization and a good future meant to the Tibetans in a mountain village of the grasslands. What she heard surprised her.

Watch a picture gallery here.

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Scholarships for children of migrant workers

For several years, the Amity Foundation has run projects for migrant workers and their families, and above all for their children, who have little access to education. Since 2000, we have supported schools for the children of migrant workers in Nanjing, providing them with sports equipment, computers, desks and chairs and other teaching equipment. Amity has also sent teaching volunteers to these schools. In this way, Amity has managed to improve the conditions and raise the level of education.

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SigAm Bilingual Deaf Education Forum

A SigAm Bilingual Deaf Education forum was held in Nanjing on 30 March and 1 April. SigAm is a cooperation project of the Signo Foundation (Norway) and Amity. (An introduction into SigAm’s work is available here.)

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Help for Yunnan earthquake victims

On 4 June an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 on the Richter Scale hit Ning’er County in southern Yunnan Province. The quake was the most serious in 28 years and caused widespread damage. Ning’er County was hit especially hard. Several people died and hundreds were injured. More than 90,000 houses collapsed and some 270,000 were damaged. 536,000 people have been affected and 180,000 evacuated. The quake damaged water pipes and destroyed communication lines.

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Annual Report 2006

All of our 2006 project reports are gathered here for easy access.

See what has been happening at the grassroots!

You can read the individual part of the annual report online or download the complete report as a PDF file.

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Belmont group at Home of Blessings

In a conference room overlooking Hunan Road in Nanjing, over 60 teachers and students from the Belmont University School of Music (USA) met with staff and residents from the Amity Home of Blessings. Zhang Liwei, associate general secretary of the Amity Foundation, gave the American visitors a brief introduction to Amity’s relationship with the Home of Blessings. After that the visitors from America enthralled everyone with their beautiful music. The Home of Blessings residents spontaneously sang and danced along, showing how they appreciated this gift. After about an hour, the music teachers and students left again – but not before group photos had been taken and long farewells shared.

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2007 SEP Meeting for Hosts

The Hosts Meeting for 2007 Summer English Program was held in Nanjing, May 12-13, giving this year’s host schools an introduction to the Amity Foundation and its work, as well as the Summer English Program and its guidelines. Amity shared feedback from previous schools, volunteers and trainees to all participants.

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New Assistance Center for the Home of Blessings

Eight mentally handicapped children from the Home of Blessings have found a new home in Nanjing’s Hunan Road and, from now on, families of disabled children in Nanjing will have an Assistance Center, something they have eagerly waited for. The Assistance Center was officially opened on 21 March.

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