CFFC 2021 - Vote for your Charity of Choice

Description:

China-Dolls Center for Rare Disorders(CCRD) provides Medical Rehabilitation, Individual Support, Self-exploration and Empowerment, Public Advocacy, and Policy-making and Research Services to people with OI and various rare disorders. CCRD works for removing social stigma, improving social security system, pushing legislation, and promoting the equal rights of medication, education, employment, and social integration for this population.

Description:

China-Dolls Center for Rare Disorders(CCRD) provides Medical Rehabilitation, Individual Support, Self-exploration and Empowerment, Public Advocacy, and Policy-making and Research Services to people with OI and various rare disorders. CCRD works for removing social stigma, improving social security system, pushing legislation, and promoting the equal rights of medication, education, employment, and social integration for this population.

Population Served:

Patients with rare disease and their families, persons with disablities.

Need Addressed:

1. Meet the needs of patients with rare diseases to achieve psychological and social rehabilitation on the basis of physiological rehabilitation needs; 

2. Create a more affordable and professional rehabilitation service center for patients with rare diseases and their families; 

3. Providing professional and effective hydrotherapy rehabilitation services for patients with rare diseases and their families; 

4. Build a comprehensive social inclusion support network for patients with rare diseases and their families.

Dandelion School

Description:

Dandelion school, established in 2005, is the first and only middle school for migrant children in Beijing, which offers a chance for migrant children to finish compulsory education whilst be around their parents. School vision is educate though teaching, change the world through education, with mission to drive education equity and quality.

Population Served:

Migrant children in Beijing.

Needs Addressed:

The migrant children study in our school come from 800+ villages.  Though their parents come to Beijing for better living, most of them work in low-income industries. 

The sad plight of children seeks opportunity to study. Dandelion school welcomes and embraces those migrant children from low-income families. Especially for those with financial difficulties, school offers Grants of different levels to support their study so that they don't have to be deprived of education.

Description:

Established in 2005 in Vancouver Canada, EGRC provides young women in rural Western China with access to high school and university education through financial sponsorship and emotional support.

Population Served:

Female high school students and rural school teachers from under developed rural regions of Gansu Province.

Needs Addressed:

EGRC’s goal has always been to ensure that the sponsored students are not only able to achieve formal education, they would also have the confidence and ability to compete with their city born peers and achieve success. Eventually they will make differences in their own families and communities. 

Description:

HOPE (Horses Offering People Enrichment) Equine Assisted Services including therapeutic riding lessons to the Chinese community, orphanages including Bethel & Renyuyuan as well as Shepherds Field in the past, the expat community as well as a prevocational program providing unmounted equine services to adults with special needs.  HOPE is located in Shunyi and operates out of the Oriental Equestrian Club Stables.

Population Served:

Individuals with special needs, including the following diagnoses: Blind and visually impaired, Autism spectrum disorder, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome, Global developmental delay, Spina-bifida, Abnormal muscle tone, Static Encephalopathy.

Needs Addressed:

HOPE strives to raise awareness about and continue to serve individuals with disabilities in partnership with the horse. Recognizing that there are still few therapeutic services available to individuals with disabilities we look forward to serving as many participants as our capacity allows while planning for growth in the future by training additional instructors and allowing for more opportunities to expand our program. 

Description:

UFCH has been piloting a program for rapid, large scale screening and immediate treatment for women, especially in remote areas that lack easy access to healthcare. The program utilizes a faster screening process for HPV that allows women to self-sample, and those who test positive for the HPV virus in our on-site mobile lab, to be evaluated and treated for precancerous changes before the virus develops into cancer. 

Population Served:

UFCH is dedicated to providing or facilitating access to critical medical care for China's most disadvantaged groups, including orphans, impoverished families, homeless persons, abused women, migrants and other groups in need of care.

Needs Addressed:

Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among women worldwide with more than 600,000 cases globally in 2020.  In China, it is the second leading cancer among women under 45 with over 100,000 new cases per year.   It is the cause of death for over 30,000 women per year due to late diagnosis or inadequate treatment.  Cervical cancer rates are especially high in China due to the lack of widespread screening and convenient treatment. HPV virus is the precursor to cervical cancer.  Although HPV vaccines are available, they are expensive and have limited distribution. As such, HPV and cervical cancer will continue to impact millions of women for the foreseeable future.

Description:

Love&Hope center is a non-profit organization providing vocational training for underprivileged children to broaden their opportunities for future work. Urban centers attract hundreds of thousands of families from rural China, yet the children of these families are often unable to receive basic education. Many of them become involved in criminal activities, or become depressed, which often leads to suicide. Love&Hope's purpose is to provide educational and social values for these migrant children, left-behind children and the children in special need.

Population Served:

Underprivileged children from rural area.

Needs Addressed:

Due to the country's hukou (household registration) system, children in rural regions cannot attend public schools in urban areas, resulting in such tragic separation. Unfortunately, there are 60 million left-behind children all over China. Most of them can only see their parents once a year for 15 days during Chinese New Year holiday. Situations of the left-behind children that we mainly focus on: Education and Safety.