Project: Sponsor a Poor Family
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Mission: To help families in poverty by sending them clothing, food, and oil, relieving
their state of poverty and fulfilling their most rudimentary needs. Results: Sent clothing, food, and cooking oil to 51 families during times of dire need or holidays. Helped two impoverished, disabled families living in caves that are prone of collapse build basic housing, spending 23,511 yuan, or about 3,732 US dollars. Between 1/1/13 and 2/16/14, Xingyang Volunteers sent 152 buckets of 5-liter cooking oil, 114 bags of 5-kg rice, 49 bags of 10-kg flour to impoverished families. A rough total of 1300 pieces of clothing were also given out to poor families. |
Description: Many families in rural China live in poverty. This project focuses on sending clothing, food, and oil to those families during holiday season or when the supplies are in dire need. For the families in poverty, these basic supplies can help them stay afloat so they are able to educate their children and take care of their elders.
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Donation Impact
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Donating $1,866 can build a home for a family who resides in mountain caves prone to collapse.
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Field Updates 2017
Results: We have sponsored 90 families and 130 students. With the support of the Transparency Fish Fund, seven summer camps have been organized with a total of 436 participants.
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Building temporary kitchen for Wang Xi:
Wang Xi lives alone and has very poor vision. The condition of his kitchen was desperate in need of repair so we built a temporary kitchen for his.
Wang Xi lives alone and has very poor vision. The condition of his kitchen was desperate in need of repair so we built a temporary kitchen for his.
Wang Mengyuan Wang Mengzhen sisters:
Wang Mengyuan suffers from a mild learning disability. Her older sister, Wang Mengzhen, takes care of her. Their father has a mild disability, and her mother is mentally challenged. Their dwellings (a cave) had nearly collapsed. The family relies on government subsidy. We secured a flashlight for their home and somehow Menyuan's disability disappeared.
Wang Mengyuan Wang Mengzhen sisters:
Wang Mengyuan suffers from a mild learning disability. Her older sister, Wang Mengzhen, takes care of her. Their father has a mild disability, and her mother is mentally challenged. Their dwellings (a cave) had nearly collapsed. The family relies on government subsidy. We secured a flashlight for their home and somehow Menyuan's disability disappeared.
Field Updates 2013
Huihui Li is an 18-year-old girl studying at Xingyang Experimental High School, living on the Gedeng hills in Wangquan Village of Cuimiao Township. In April of 2012, Xingyang volunteers, visiting students living in poverty known from a list supplied by the school, found that the cave in which Huihui resides can collapse at any moment. Huihui’s father has liver cancer and her mother has dementia and is unable to take care of herself, much less her daughter. In May of 2012, Xingyang Volunteers fundraised to build basic housing for Huihui with solar electric lights. Huihui’s father passed away in October. Her mother remarried Quan Liu from the town of Cuimiao, who had an aging mother (now passed away), and two nieces (daughters of his brother, who died when they were young), portrayed in the above photo. Quna Liu is now taking care of Huihui’s mother. During each year’s holidays, Xingyang volunteers would check in with them, sending them rice, cooking oil, clothes donated by volunteers, as well as $35 extra in cash, hoping to help them a little more. Now Huihui Li is being taken care of by the volunteers. Volunteers from Zhengzhou give her $70 each moth to support her cost of living and tuition for school. Huihui is extremely mature and a great student. Because of her high grades, her school awarded $240 for poverty support. She used this sum to pay for her tuition and cost of living, among other things.
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Qiufen Wang, 49 years old, is from Shuiling Village in Liuhe Township. To care for her son, who is going to middle school, she is currently living in a friend’s house in Wanghe Village. Soon after her husband passed away, Qiufen was diagnosed with breast cancer. While her eldest son was working as a construction worker, 90% of his left palm was cut off. Although it was reconnected through surgery, it is still inconvenient for him to work. His wife sought a divorce and left their young daughter to him. Xingyang volunteers saw their condition and extended a helping hand, applying for her the TFish serious illness help fund and finding a donor to pay for her younger son’s tuition of $255 per year. To our content, her younger son excels at school. Qiufen says people who went through surgery at around the same time as her all passed away while she recovered fairly well only because of the timeliness of her treatment. She would like to thank TFish for their support and for saving her life. She has always told her son that he must remember what TFish did for them and to help others in the future.
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Mengli Wang, 24 years old, used to do business on the streets of the Town of Liuhe. She married to Shaozhai Village of Cuimiao Township. After having a child, she felt discomfort and was subsequently diagnosed with uremia. They had to borrow lots of money to pay for treatment. For the convenience of dialysis, they rented housing next to the hospital. To take care of her, her husband also found a job near by. Her parents-in-law are taking care of her child. The NCMS is able to pay for 70% of her spending, but the 30% left, coupled with her cost of living and rent, still leaves her struggling. When Xingyang Volunteers found her in dire need, they helped her to apply for a serious illness help fund. Mengli is very grateful for TFish’s supported that helped her finish dialysis and still be alive today.
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Xingyang Volunteers helped Lili Wang, who lived in caves in danger of collapse, build a new house. Her mother is paralyzed and stays in bed while her father suffered from a serious injury after which he is unable to most his waist. Ever since Lili was little, she started doing housework, learning that she can only finish her homework after she finished household chores. Volunteers later realized that their house is missing electric lights, so they attached solar electric lights to Lili’s house. During holiday, Xingyang volunteers would bring food and visit this poor family and help her find a donor to pay for her $270 tuition and cost of living. Lili is currently a 18-year-old in high school.
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Field Updates 2012
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