China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA) () is a nongovernmental charitable organization in Beijing, China, registered under the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs in 1989 and professionally supervised by the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development.
In 2017, CFPA raised poverty alleviation funds and materials totaling RMB 580 million (about US$91 million) to deliver aid and assistance in over 4.2 million individual cases for impoverished persons and disaster victims. To date CFPA has raised total funds and materials worth RMB 34 billion (est. USD 5.7 billion) and delivered aid and assistance in 33 million individual cases.
CFPA's first international project was realized in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami when the organization raised funds for affected disaster victims.
Since then CFPA has expanded overseas to help those in need across the world, and is actively campaigning for more Chinese CSOs to launch humanitarian projects abroad while advocating for favorable government policies facilitating overseas operations. As of 2017, CFPA has undertaken work in 19 countries outside China and has long-term projects in 5 countries; Myanmar, Nepal, Ethiopia, Uganda and Sudan, with registered offices in Nepal and Myanmar.
Overview China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA) () is a nongovernmental charitable organization based in Beijing, registered at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, PRC, in 1989 and professionally supervised by the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development. In 2016, CFPA raised poverty alleviation funds and materials totaling RMB 456 million (est. US$67 million) to deliver aid and assistance in over 33 million individual cases for impoverished persons and disaster victims. By the end of 2017, CFPA had accumulatively raised poverty alleviation funds and material of RMB 34.095 billion (est. USD 5.3 billion). The beneficiaries in the impoverished condition and the disaster areas reached 29,087,200 person-time.
CFPA's first international project was realized in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami when the organization raised funds for affected disaster victims. Since then CFPA has expanded overseas to help those in need across the world, and is actively campaigning for more Chinese CSOs to launch humanitarian projects abroad while advocating for favorable government policies facilitating overseas operations. As of 2017, CFPA has undertaken work in 19 countries outside China and has long-term projects in 5 countries; Myanmar, Nepal, Ethiopia, Uganda and Sudan, with registered offices in Nepal and Myanmar.
Our Vision: Be the best trusted, the best expected and the best respected international philanthropy platform Our Mission: Disseminate good and reduce poverty, help others to achieve their aims, and make the good more powerful Our Values: Service, Innovation, Transparency, Tenacity Slogan: Persistence Brings ChangeChina Makes Strides in Poverty Alleviation in Rural Areas, China.org.cn,
Domestic work CFPA is committed to disbursing donor funds in the most effective way possible to combat rural poverty and stimulate development in remote regions. Our domestic programs target four areas in poverty reduction to increase the quality of the life for rural populations.
Poverty alleviation and development programs To improve health conditions CFPA has launched, in 2000 and 2008, projects as "Maternal and Infant Health 120 Action" and "nutritious meals" to help poor mothers and children to boost the inpatient delivery rate among pregnant and lying-in women, reduce maternal mortality, and improve maternal and child life support level and health level; Meanwhile, CFPA advocates the whole society to pay attention to children's nutrition condition in poverty-stricken areas. By providing extra nutrition meals and Love Kitchen facilities, CFPA improves children's growth and development condition in poor mountainous areas, reduces malnutrition rate and anaemia rate of children, promotes their health level.
Protection of maternal and child health Since its launch in 2000, the maternal and infant health project has aimed at reducing maternal and child mortality and infant mortality, and improving maternal and child health protection and health levels in poverty-stricken areas. It has successively launched the Maternal and Infant Health 120 Action Program, the vision aid program, and major illnesses project. etc. By the end of 2017, the total investment in maternal and child safety projects exceeded RMB 160 million. The project covered 23 counties (city, district) in 11 provinces (municipalities/autonomous regions) in Yunnan, Chongqing, Fujian, Ningxia, Anhui, Sichuan, Shanxi, Hebei, Hunan, Liaoning, and Beijing, with 645,000 person-times benefited.
In 2017, the maternal and child safety project invested RMB 4.802 million, benefiting 120,000 person-times. Among them, the Maternal and Child Safety 120 Action Program covered 10 counties (city, district) in five provinces (municipalities/autonomous regions), and the cumulative number of beneficiaries of the project was about 4,000 person times, and 8 critical and serious pregnant and lying-in woman were rescued; The vision aid program covered 4 counties (cities), 4 provinces, Yucheng District of Ya'an City in Sichuan Province, Chaoyang County in Liaoning Province, Lianyuan City in Hunan Province and Changting County in Fujian Province, benefiting more than 115,000 children; The hearing aid program provided language rehabilitation training for 65 hearing-impaired children and training for 15 parents; Project for two cancer of women screened 750 rural women in Yulong County, Yunnan Province for "two cancer of women"; The PKU program provided special food subsidies for 7 impoverished PKU children in Longde County.
Care for disabled people with dementia
China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, in order to actively respond to the rapid development of the aging population and solve the problem of care for the elderly, upheld the concept of "respecting the old, loving the old, and protecting the old" and started caring project for the aged, for disabled people with dementia, especially poverty-stricken and low-income senior citizens, to build a comprehensive pension service system, and provide quality professional nursing care services for the aged.
It established the public welfare care demonstration project for the aged—Ya'an CFPA Senior Care Service Center in 2017 in Ya'an, Sichuan, the first one of China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation. As of the end of 2017, the project has invested RMB 10,542,800 in total, completing adaptive decoration and transformation for the aged and provision of hardware facilities, i.e. decoration of 5,760 square meters and 156 beds for the nursing institutions for the aged. After assessing 73 senior people with disability and intellectual disability in Ya'an, the center has already received the first batch of the elderly in December 2017. Since its inception, the project, relying on the care of institutions for the aged with disability and intellectual disability, has influenced community and home-based care services for the aged. It has benefited 450 elderly people in total, of which 80 are disabled people with dementia. In the same year, it established the "Time Bank" volunteer system, and more than 100 volunteers provided voluntary services for the disabled people with dementia.
Improvement of children nutrition
Since the launch of the Nutritious Meals Project in 2008, it has improved the nutritional status of children in poverty-stricken areas approximately RMB 220 million. At home, it covers 87 counties (districts) in remote mountainous areas, 44 states (cities) in 14 provinces, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Liaoning, Hebei, Fujian, Henan, Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, Anhui and Jiangxi, benefited more than 792,000 people, provided more than 44.8 million meals for the students, and established 1,445 standardized love kitchens; In foreign countries, in addition to school feeding programs for Cambodia, Nepal and other countries, the project provided 741 thousand packs of VitaMeal for 590,000 person-times for children in 20 provinces across the country, worth RMB 146 million.
In 2017, the Nutritious Meals Project invested RMB 39.688 million (excluding VitaMeal). In China, it covered 38 remote areas in 28 cities (states) in 13 provinces including Sichuan, Yunnan, Hunan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Fujian, Xinjiang, Jiangxi, Heilongjiang and Anhui, provided more than 5.6 million nutrition meals for the students, established 283 standardized love kitchens, and benefited more than 142,000 person-times for students; In foreign countries, it provided 3.42 million nutrition meals for over Cambodia's 17,000 students. Moreover, it provided nearly 57,000 packs of Vita Meal for 25,000 person-times for children in 3 counties in provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, valued at RMB 10.03 million.
Equality in education The development of the economy in the remote areas of old and young people in China is slow, and the parents have to leave the countryside to work in cities. As the guardian is absent, the basic rights of stay-at-home children are not guaranteed; the educational resources in poor areas are scarce, and the quality of music, physical education and other courses is not ideal; the school supplies for students in poverty-stricken areas is in shortage, and winter clothing is in lack during the winter; many rural elementary school dormitories have been in disrepair for a long time, and the plan of relocation and school consolidation has exacerbated the difficulty of student accommodation in poverty-stricken areas. Poor high school students and poor college students face difficulties in living expenses. To this end, China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation launched programs such as Child Companion Plan, Moving Forward Plan, Love Package, School Dormitory, and New Great Wall College Students Scholarship to promote the comprehensive development of rural students in poverty-stricken areas and improve their living conditions.
Through the establishment of a Child Companion's home and the recruitment of Children Companions to take care of stay-at-home children, the basic rights of stay-at-home children were protected; Created future space, set up a refueling classroom, and helped poor children develop in an all-round way; Issued Love Package, organized training for music and physical education teacher, and improved the audio-visual teaching status and learning conditions in rural elementary schools in poverty-stricken areas; Assisted in construction of student dormitories and libraries for townships in poverty-stricken areas to solve the problems of poor student accommodation in poverty-stricken areas; Helped them complete their studies and realize their dream of becoming talent, through the economic subsidy and talent support for impoverished high school students and impoverished college students.
Love Package Since its inception in 2009, the Love Package project has improved the comprehensive development and living conditions of rural pupils in poverty-stricken areas by organizing donations of care packages. It has given children caring love and helped children round their childhood dreams. As of the end of 2017, a total of RMB 613,729,500 of donation was received, of which 3,294,700 donations were donated by individuals and 272,600 came from the unit. The project benefited 24,867 schools and 5,378,400 students in 752 counties of 31 provinces (municipalities/autonomous regions) and 6,549 families.