Chi Fan For Charity Announces 2016 Charity Partners; Event Set for November 5
The annual city-wide dinner party for good causes known as Chi Fan For Charity (CFFC) has announced its beneficiaries for its 2016 events, to be held in November.
Dandelion School and The Starfish Project will both return as charity partners for this year. Both have previously been beneficiaries in earlier editions of CFFC, but not for the last couple of years.
Starfish Project is a non-profit organization with a social enterprise that restores hope for trafficked and exploited women. Starfish Project provides these women and their children with shelter, counseling, access to healthcare, educational opportunities, child education grants, and vocational training. Additionally, they provide full-time employment in our social enterprise jewelry company, where women can use the skills they have learned to provide for themselves and their families. Through their holistic care programs and vocational opportunities they have seen women with little to no education gain the skills to become graphic designers, accountants, photographers, and managers.
The second organization, Dandelion School, works with migrant workers' children. Migrant workers contribute to everyone's daily life on Beijing. However, children from low-income migrant families are not eligible for middle school education in the city. So Dandelion School began in 2005 to serve as a local non-profit organization and provide access to quality education to migrant children. However, after 10 years, the worn-out classrooms and dormitories are dangerous for accommodating close to 700 students and staff. The new campus project will help Dandelion School to build a safe and durable campus and ensure the school's development in the long run. Although Dandelion students are from low-income migrant families, we believe they deserve quality education and durable classrooms, just like every other student in Beijing.
To date, CFFC has raised over RMB 4 million for charitable causes, with 100 percent of proceeds going to beneficiaries. The Beijing event will be held on Saturday, November 5, with following events in Shanghai and Hong Kong, both being held on Saturday, November 12. For more information, visit their website.
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