China Foundation for Rural Development

Activities

A poor diet can result in malnutrition, growth retardation, and weakened immunity. In addition, many schools lack the equipment needed to prepare healthy meals and many communities lack access to information on the importance of nutrition.

CFRD’s Nutritious Meals Program provides:

• For children: a daily nutritional supplement of one carton of milk and one egg during school hours
• For schools: standard “Love Kitchen” equipment, including electric stoves, rice steamers, disinfection cabinets, operating tables and exhaust fans
• For teachers, parents, and students: nutrition training and education

The program operates in many provinces across China, including: Sichuan, Yunnan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Fujian, Xinjiang, Jiangxi, Heilongjiang, Anhui, Ningxia, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces. The program also carried out international school food programs for students in Cambodia and Ghana.

Your Impact

Your support will help address malnutrition in rural China by providing elementary school children with nutritious meals and providing schools with equipment and training to improve students’ nutritional status.

• US$0.55 (3.5 Yuan) will provide 1 elementary school student with 1 nutritious meal, including a bottle of milk and an egg.
• US$110 (700 Yuan) will support 1 elementary school student for 1 year of nutritious meals.
• US$92,900 (60,000 Yuan) will support the construction of a Love Kitchen in an elementary school to feed 100 to 500 students with warm and nutritious meals.

Making a Difference

Alimunisa is a fourth grade student in Aktau County. Her family make their living by herding sheep and working as guards, with an annual income of about US$775 (5,000 Yuan). They are among the registered poor households in China. Because they live in a pastoral area, they typically have to dip into their meagre funds to purchase food, mainly pasta, for their meals. They rarely get a chance to eat vegetables or meat.

Ali is a bright and hardworking student and looks forward to school where she gets to eat meals she wouldn’t receive at home. Her favorites are the marinated chicken eggs and milk donated by the Nutritious Meals Program, as well as the meals made in the school’s “Love Kitchen”. Beyond making school more enjoyable, the meals have also helped Ali excel in her studies. Recently, she came in fourth place in a speech contest in the county.

History & Leadership

• Founded in 1989 and based in Beijing, the CFRD is a nongovernmental charitable organization registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, PRC, and supervised by the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development.
• The Foundation began expanding its work overseas in 2004. Since then, it has responded to disasters such as the Indonesia tsunami and the drought in the Horn of Africa, while also implementing development programs across Asia and Africa.
• In September 2016, CFRD was one of the first to be certified by the Ministry of Civil Affairs as a charitable organization eligible for public fundraising.
• The CFRD is led by its President, Wenkai Zheng, Executive Vice President Xingzui Wang, Vice President and Executive Director Wenkui Liu, as well as its board of directors.

Awards & Recognition

• In 2019, Smiling Children School Feeding Program was awarded Best Poverty Reduction Case in the Global Poverty Reduction Case Award Competition.
• In 2019, the Backbone Project (Health Insurance for Poor Families’ Labors) was selected as one of the “2019 Top 10 Cases of Network Poverty Alleviation” guided by the Information Development Bureau of the Central Network Information Office and sponsored by the China Federation of Network Social Organizations.
• In 2018, the “One Yuan Donation Initiative” project was named “The Most Influential Charity Project: at the 10th China Charity Awards.
• In 2017, the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation received the 2016 Annual Special Contribution Award for Online Philanthropy from the China Internet Development Foundation.
• In 2016, the CPC Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and the People’s Government of Sichuan Province awarded the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation the title of Advanced Collective for Recovery and Reconstruction after the Lushan earthquake in Sichuan Province.
• Rated as the highest grade 5A foundation in the national foundation rating review organized by the Ministry of Civil Affairs in 2013.