The Spring Bud Project has been launched, organized and carried
out by the China
Children and Teenagers' Fund (CCTF), under the leadership of
the All China Women's Federation. The goal of the plan is to assist
girls of poor areas of China to return to school, which will
benefit the welfare of the whole society.
In china due to social and cultural uneven development,
especially due to the influence of the traditional values, there
are still illiterates and among them 2/3 are women. The dropout
girls consist more than 2/3 of the whole dropouts.
Today's girls are future mothers. The quality of mothers affects
the quality of the whole Chinese nation. Since, in order to raise
women's quality, we have to begin from the education of the girls.
To implement the Spring Bud Project and help girls to return to
school is a basic engineering to raise the nation's quality and
hence benefit our future generations. It is also a vital step to
fulfill and consolidate the 9-year compulsory education and
eliminate illiteracy among the young and middle-aged. With a view
to strengthen quality education and to cultivate the Spring Bud
girls to obtain some skills and to be self-reliant so that they
will be able to help to build their homeland, the CCTF has
established a special fund to run technical training courses.
By the early 1999, the Spring Bud Project has been carried out
in all over China, 220 million RMB has been collected, and 900,000
drop-out girls have been helped back to school.
It's hoped that the Spring Bud Project will receive support and
kind and generous donations from organizations and individuals both
home and abroad.