The "Spring Bud Plan" was established byChina Children's FundIt was launched in 1989 to help poor girls out of school return to school.[8]
In 1989All China Women's FederationUnder its leadership, the China Children's Fund launched the "Spring Bud Plan" public welfare project, which is committed to improving the education of girls from poor families.For a long time, with the high attention and care of the Party and the government, the active participation and generous contributions of all sectors of societyWomen's FederationThe organization jointly organized the implementation of the "Spring Bud Plan", carried out various forms of financial support services around girls' education, girls' safety, girls' health, etc., and a large number of spring bud girls have grown into talents.[1]As of 2019, the project has raised 2.1 billion yuan of social love donations, with 27.84 million people donating, and more than 3.69 million people supporting spring bud girls nationwide.[2]
The "Spring Bud Plan" is a social public welfare undertaking launched and organized by the China Children's Fund in 1989 to help out out of school girls in poor areas to return to school.becausenatural conditionSocial, economic and cultural developmentout-off-balance, especiallytraditional customThere are still a few illiterates in China, especially in poor mountainous areas, and female illiteracy accounts for more than 2/3 of the total number of illiterates;Girls account for about two-thirds of out of school children.[3]
In 1989, under the leadership of the All China Women's Federation,China Children's FundInitiated and organized a project to help girls out of school in poverty-stricken areas return to schoolSocial public welfareProject - "Spring Bud Plan".By the end of 2007, the "Spring Bud Plan" had raised more than 600 million yuan, spread over more than 30 provinces, autonomous regions and cities across the country, built more than 600 spring bud schools, subsidized more than 1.7 million poor girls to return to school, and carried outPractical technical training。[3]
Since 2005, along with the revised《Compulsory Education Law》The promulgation of“Two exemptions and one supplement”With the implementation of the student aid policy, UNICEF adjusted the funding focus of the "Spring Bud Plan" in time tocompulsory educationSubsidy for poor girls at different stages, including tuitionTuition and miscellaneous expensesTransfer toCost of livingThe scope of assistance has also expanded from primary school and junior high school to high school and even university.In addition, in order to further implement the "Spring Bud Plan"Labor transferIn the city, it appears in the countryside“left-behind children”And“Migrant children”The "Spring Bud Plan" extended its focus to "left behind children" and "migrant children", and launched the donation of "Spring Bud"boarding schools ”Project, etc.The "Spring Bud Plan" has changed the fate of millions of girls in poor areas."Spring Bud Plan" is to help girls return to school and protect girlsRight to education, Maintenancesocial equity , PromotionSocial civilizationGreat achievements have been made."Spring Bud Plan" has become a folk project in ChinaPublic welfare organizationsPromotion of girlsEducational developmentThe most successful and influential example of.In 2005, the "Spring Bud Plan" was awarded by the Ministry of Civil Affairs“China Charity Award”。
Implementation concept
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China Children's FundIt is believed that "today's girls are the future of the nation. The quality of girls affects the quality of the whole nation in the future. To improve the quality of women, we must start with girls' education, implement the" Spring Bud Plan ", and support girls to enter school. It is a basic project to improve national quality and benefit future generations, and it is also the ninth year of consolidation and popularization in Chinacompulsory educationA key step in eradicating illiteracy among young and middle-aged people. "[3]
Children are the future of the motherland and the hope of the nation. To pay attention to children is to pay attention to the future and development.Orphaned children as aspecial group And need special care and help.Hold a spring bud, fight for a share of spring;Help a schoolboy win a piece of hope.Helping one of them will help a family, influence a group of people, drive a group of people and benefit generations.[3]
The Spring Bud Plan is realized through the economic support provided by the donor to the recipient. Its implementation has aroused people's conscience, conscience and good wishesconscientiousnessThe embodiment ofTraditional virtues of the Chinese nationAnd excellenthumanistic spiritAn extension of.It directly faces the most basic groups of the society and opens the door to the growth of poor girls.[3]
The "Spring Bud Plan" hopes to get donations from people of insight and units at home and abroad to open more "Spring Bud Girls Classes" in poor areas across the country.[3]
Symbolic significance
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① The main idea is to hold the rising sun with one hand.
② The logo looks like a red flower bud just blooming in early spring.[3]
③ This sign also looks like a young seedling that has just taken root and drilled out of the ground, and the oval part on it looks like the embryonic leaf of the young seedling that has not yet been raised.[3]
④ Children are the future of the motherland. There is a red slash at the bottom leftSense of speed, it calls on the whole society to actively participate and invest, lend a strong hand,Pick up the sun of tomorrow。
Donation of 1600 yuan can help a girl complete a short-term practical technical training;[3]
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Donation of 80000 yuan can help 50 girls complete a short-term practical technical training.
Love harvest:
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All donors shall apply for tax exemption with the "unified receipt for donations received by public welfare units" and issue certificates.
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Keep in touch with the assisted students or hold corresponding exchange activities.[3]
3. Spring Bud Healthy Growth Project
4. Spring Buds Help Each Other
FundersOne to one fundingPoor girls complete primary, middle or high school.[3]
5. Spring Bud School
Funding standards:
From 500000 yuan, one can be donated“Spring Bud School”(You can donate teaching buildings, student dormitories, teaching and living auxiliary rooms, etc.)[3]
Donation process:
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The donor provides a letter of intent;
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The China Children's Fund provides the donor with application materials for school reconstruction;
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The China Children's Fund signed an agreement with the donor;
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The school construction fund is donated to the account of China Children's Fund;
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The aided party shall design and provide drawings and capital budget in accordance with relevant regulations;After the approval of the China Children's Fund and the donor, the China Children's Fund signed a donation agreement with the recipient, and the school construction project began;
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After the completion of the school, provide the donors with the Completion Report of Chunlei School, the Settlement Report of Chunlei School Project, the Quality Inspection Report of Chunlei School Project, and pictures of the new school;[3]
Love harvest:
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All donors shall apply for tax exemption with the "unified receipt for donations received by public welfare units" and issue certificates.
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Name the school or school building according to the wishes of the donor.
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The school has invited donors to participate in the inauguration ceremony or organize corresponding activities.
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According to the donation situation, the honorary titles such as "Chinese Children's Philanthropist", "Chinese Children's Charity Ambassador", "Chinese Children's Public Welfare Star Enterprise" and "Chinese Children's Public Welfare Enterprise" will be awarded, and the names will be engraved in BeijingBadaling Great Wall"Chinese Children's Charity Merit Monument".[3]
Donation of 60000 yuan can help 50 girls complete their three-year studies in the upper grades of primary schools;
Donation of 90000 yuan can help 50 girls to complete their three-year studies in junior high school;The donation of 200000 yuan can help 50 girls complete their three years of high school studies.[3]
Love harvest
① All donors are entitled to "public welfare unit"Accept donationsUnified receipts "apply for tax exemption and issue certificates.
② , named after the Girls' Class of Donor's Will.
③ Keep in touch with the schools and students receiving assistance or hold corresponding exchange activities.
④ According to the donation, "Chinese Children's Philanthropist", "Chinese Children's Charity Ambassador", "Chinese Children's Public Welfare Star Enterprise", "Chinese Children's Public Welfare Enterprise", etcHonorary title, and engraved his name in BeijingBadaling Great Wall"Chinese Children's Charity"Merit stele”On.[3]
Participants
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Celebrity funding
Ms. Zhou Jiebing, director of Hong Kong Huaxing Group, positioned her participation in social affairs atWomen's workandPublic welfare undertakings。In 1992, she initiated the establishment of Zijing Society, a women's group, and served as the chairman.In order to rally women's strength and improve theirsocial positionZhou Jiebing began to devote more energy to holding various lectures, exhibitions and exchange activities.[3]
Zhou Jiebing arrived in Beijing and visitedAll China Women's Federation。When discussing how to further promote equality between men and women, I learned that women in the mainland are illiterate and underestimated;However, a large proportion of girls in poor areas drop out of school, which will also exacerbate the cultural and status gap between the sexes.[3]
She was deeply touched.After the exchange activities, the All China Women's Federation and the China Children's Fund launched the "Spring Bud Plan" aimed at helping girls who dropped out of school due to poverty to return to school on the basis of the original scholarships for girls to enter higher education. Zhou Jiebing immediately donated 1 million yuan, and became confused with the "Spring Bud".With Zhou Jiebing's first donation, the "Spring Bud Plan" was launched in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and Sichuanexperimental classAbout 800 girls who dropped out of school in poverty-stricken areas were subsidized to return to the classroom.Over the past few years, she has continued to provide generous financial support and actively raised special donations in Hong Kong, providing 500000 to 1 million yuan to the "Spring Bud Plan" every year.In order to implement the plan, she goes north two or three times a year to discuss with relevant departments, or go across mountains and mountains to check the implementation.[3]
Zhou Jiebing Goes to GuangxiRongshui Miao Autonomous CountyVocational technical secondary school experimental base, observing students of "Spring Bud Girls Class" learning flower cultivation techniquesSituation of
Thanks to the support of governments at all levels and education departments,organizerWith the help of Zhou Jiebing and all sectors of society, the rescue scope of the "Spring Bud Plan" has been expanded to 29 provinces, autonomous regions and cities, with 600000 person times of funding.[3]
Hundreds of girls in the first pilot class funded by Zhou Jiebing, especially cherish the opportunity provided by Aunt Zhou, and have successively completed primary and junior high school studies with excellent results.Some have entered high school or enteredTeacher training schoolAnd other technical secondary schools;[3]
Some return home and become primary school studentsSubstitute teacherUse the knowledge learned to "light" the "lamp" of hope of more poor children;Some go out to work, supported by the culture they have mastered at school, and wander around;Some go home to farm, teach their parents what teachers teach, and apply it to farming, forestry, and breeding. They gradually become guides for families, villages, and villages to get rid of poverty and become rich.[3]
social influence
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In order to scientifically summarize the basic experience since the implementation of the Spring Bud Program for 15 years, and comprehensively understand thesocial resultsEntrusted by the China Children's Fund, the China Research Center for Science and Technology for Development carried out a comprehensive study on the social benefits of the Spring Bud Programassessment。China Research Center for Science and Technology for Developmentthe United NationsTechnical forecastWith the Chinese member units of the Evaluation AssociationSocial public welfareThe evaluation of the project has a rich societyProject evaluationExperience.The evaluation team is composed of researchers with rich experience in social project evaluation, and widely solicitsDomain expertsThe specific evaluation scheme was approved by the expert group.[3]
The evaluation team believes that the Spring Bud Plan initiated and organized by the China Children's Fund has becomeChinese societyOne of the most well-known social welfare brands.The implementation of the Spring Bud Plan has received extensive participation and support from all walks of lifeInterest groupsandThe publicChina enjoys a good reputation.[3]
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After 15 years of development, the Spring Bud Plan has become a regionCoverageVery extensive and relatively mature social public welfare projects with geographical expansion.According to the statistical results of the report data filled in by UNICEF, provincial women's federations and UNICEF, the Spring Bud Plan had covered 312 prefecture level units and 2316 district level units in 30 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government) of China by the end of 2003;It accounts for 93.9% of the total number of prefectural and municipal units (332) and 81.0% of the total number of district and county units (2861).[3]
According to China Children's Foundation and all levelsWomen's FederationAccording to the statistical results of the data in the report filled in by UNICEF, as of the end of 2003, the Spring Bud Plan had raised 583 million yuan“Spring Bud Class”The project helped 1.403 million girls in total.The number of girls rescued by the Spring Bud Program has reached a considerable scale, andcompulsory educationThe poor girls in this stage are mainly.The funding of the Spring Bud Program has enabled a considerable number of out of school girls to return to school, enabling many girls who are about to drop out to continue their studies.In addition, according to the statistical results of the report data, as of the end of 2003, the Spring Bud Plan has also built more than 280 Spring Bud schools, effectively improving the school running conditions in the project implementation area.These have helped the government to promote the popularization of nine-year compulsory education to a certain extent.[3]
Compared with similar student aid programs, the Spring Bud Program has a relatively high amount of funding and a relatively long period of funding, which greatly reduces the financial burden of the assisted girls' families and can effectively solve the problem of poor girls' schooling.By ensuring that girls receiveThe right to educationLi, the Spring Bud Plan has changed the attitude of many girlsLife trajectoryWith the help of the Spring Bud Program, many girls have become outstandingFemale talents。[3]
Different from other similar programs, the Spring Bud Program has also set up a distinctive "Spring Bud Program" for the assisted girlsPractical technical training”The project helps girls acquire skills by providing rich "practical technical training" that meets local actual needs.According to the statistical results of the report data, as of the end of 2003, Spring Bud plans to train more than 400000 women and girls through various forms of practical technical training activities.Practical technical training has helped many girls and their families get rid of poverty and become rich, greatly deepening the implementation effect of educational aid in rural areas.
Spring Bud Program is dedicated to girlseducationThe development ofDevelopment education, poverty alleviation and promotionGender equalityAnd many other public welfare responsibilities have had a good social impact.Spring Bud Plan has obvious impact on girls' education in project implementation areas, especially in poor areas where the project is concentratedFacilitationTo a considerable extent, it has changed the backward concept of "son preference" in these areas, and increased the attention of governments at all levels and all sectors of society to girls' education.Spring Bud Program has become a non-governmental public welfare organization in China to promote girlsEducational developmentThe most successful and influential example of.
Since its launch and implementation in 1989, it has not only benefited millions of individual girls and families, but also achieved remarkable social benefits.As of October 2019, the "Spring Bud Plan" has handed over such a transcript: it has received 2.118 billion yuan of social love donations, 27.84 million person times of donations, directly helped girls more than 3.69 million person times, donated 1811 Spring Bud schools, provided vocational education training for 527000 person times of older girls, and issuedProtection of girls2.17 million sets of bud protection manuals with main contents. "The "Spring Bud Plan" covers 31 provinces, autonomous regions, cities andXinjiang Production and Construction Corps, including SouthwestNorthwest ChinaThe highest expenditure.According to the amount and number of grants, the top ten provinces are Sichuan, Guizhou, Gansu, Xinjiang, YunnanQinghaiJiangxi, HunanTibetHebei.[5]
2019 is the 30th anniversary of the implementation of the "Spring Bud Plan". On October 26, the "Spring Bud Plan" sponsored by the China Children's FundAdolescent educationThe project entered Chongqing and benefited 15000 girls in poor areas and counties.The sponsor of the project donated 954000 yuan worth of project materials to Chongqing, including experts of five adolescent education projectsVideo course3 sets of teacher courseware, 15000 storybooks, 6000 guardian bags, covering more than 40 schools in Chongqing, and benefiting 15000 adolescent girls aged 10 to 14 in poverty-stricken areas and counties.Han Lina, director of the project liaison department of the China Children's and Adolescents Foundation, said that the "Spring Bud Plan" adolescent education project closely focused on the general requirements of "building morality and cultivating people" to help girls in poor areas establish correct values and guide their physical and mental health.[3][6]
Spring Bud Plan
President Jiang Zemin, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Li Peng, Vice Premier Li Lanqing, former Chairman of the All China Women's FederationChen MuhuaThe leaders of other countries paid high attention and wrote inscriptions to support the implementation of the "Spring Bud Plan".The plan has been rated as one of the three major social public welfare activities in China, and has been included in the "Situation of Children in China" released to the world by Chinawhite paper。[3]
In March 2024, the representatives attending the 68th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women paid high attention to China's "Spring Bud Plan" winning the 2023 UNESCO Girls' and Women's Education Award. Peng Liyuan, the wife of President Xi Jinping, was appointed as the special envoy of the "Spring Bud Plan" to promote girls' education, and promoted women to change their own destiny through educationI deeply admire the achievements in realizing the value of life.[11]
Donation record
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On November 13, 2019, the sixth donation ceremony of the Armed Police Force to the "Spring Bud Plan" was held in Beijing. This donation was more than 33 million yuan. After this donation, the officers and soldiers of the Armed Police Force have donated more than 91 million yuan in total to help more than 10000 spring bud girls complete their studies[7]。
On July 27, 2023, the seventh donation ceremony of the Chinese People's Armed Police Force to the "Spring Bud Plan" was held in Beijing. This donation was more than 40 million yuan。[9]
Honors won
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On September 28, 2023, the Spring Bud Program won the 2023 UNESCO Girls' and Women's Education Award.[10]