Children from poor families in China will have the chance to
watch the opening or closing ceremony as well as competition at the
Beijing Olympic Games.
Vantage, a Beijing Olympics gas appliance supplier, together
with China Youth Development Foundation as well as CCTV, will
select 10 children in the "Underprivileged Children Realizing Their
Olympic Dream" project launched on Wednesday.
These children will come out of the 1,000 students who were able
to finish their elementary school thanks to Vantage's financial
support.
Vantage also donated 500,000 to the Foundation on Wednesday for
children from Gansu and Inter Mongolia to finish their school.
"These underprivileged children don't even have proper sports
facilities as their counterparts in cities, let alone watching
Olympics.The project is meaningful because they used to be so far
from the Olympics but now they have the chance to get close to the
Games," said Tu Meng, executive director of the Foundation.
"I hope that this project can draw people's attention to their
poor conditions and hopefully there will be more people joining in
charity," he said.
According to the Foundation's statistics last year, since the
China Hope Project was launched in 1989, it has helped
nearly?3 million children to return school.
(Xinhua News Agency May 31, 2007)