Resources

Church-based projects

The Amity Foundation’s Chinese name has two characters that serve as the basis of the name: 爱 and 德. The first character means “love” and is in reference to the [...]

Amity encourages the use of local resources and initiatives to promote projects that meet basic needs and assist self development. In many remote villages, water shortages have resulted in poverty [...]

Medical

Amity emphasizes medical training for ethnic minorities and grassroots personnel, and promotes primary health care. In remote poverty stricken areas inhabited by national minorities, resources are often scarce and of [...]

Social Welfare

Amity emphasizes rehabilitation and training educators for children with special needs — those isolated by a hearing impairment, afflicted by polio, or orphaned as infants. Amity has initiated and supported [...]

Education

Amity’s education projects focus on changing hearts and minds. We emphasize people-to-people contact and the building of personal friendships which promote mutual respect and broader global perspectives. Through language teaching [...]

Disaster relief

Amity responds to survival needs caused by natural disaster with food, health care, clothing and shelter. Assistance is given to communities whose churches, rural health clinics, schools, social welfare institutions, [...]

Annual Reports

Amity Books

Growing in Partnership: The Amity Foundation 1985-2005

Below are materials which you will find useful if you are participating in Amity’s Summer English Program. Materials can be viewed online or downloaded to your computer in PDF format.

Links to teaching resources, referencing, guides and extras
SEP Handbook 2012 (PDF)
Handbook for all those taking part in the Summer English Program
Amity Teacher’s Toolkit (PDF)
Companion volume of teaching resources and ideas for those participating in the Summer English Program
Learning English
Companion volume for those teaching on the Summer English Program