China Children and Teenagers’ Foundation
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 02:00:00 BST
For a while now the University’s China Office have been supporting a charity called the China Children and Teenagers' Foundation (CCTF). The purpose of CCTF is to care for, foster, and educate children and teenagers in China and to assist the government in improving the children and teenagers' education and welfare conditions.
Our University has a growing connection with China and it is our goal to work with our China Office to put something back into grass-roots education there. It’s easy to think that China is a large, rich country, but its rate of growth is leaving some families and young people in small towns and villages behind as their parents move to find work in the big cities, so this is our chance to help out in a small way.
You may have noticed some fund-raising going on around the Spring Festival Celebrations and a collection in the Students’ Union shop throughout February. Through these, and some other initiatives, we have raised an additional donation to CCTF which we will deliver in April 2017.
Four lucky students will accompany Dr. Zhen Tong the President of the Chinese Student’s Society and Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor David Taylor on a visit to China to see the project and hand over our donation. The trip is made possible by funding from Santander Universities CSR programme and their support for student mobility in the University.
Find out more on the website about our commitment to corporate social responsibility and the impact the University has on the local community and beyond.
