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The volunteers conduct home visits, interview school teachers, parents and potential recipients themselves to choose the final recipients. Volunteers will also try to establish personal relations with the supported students and supply sustained encouragement and mentorship to the local students.

Summary

Seedling Fund is a Dream Corps-sponsored scholarship that supports students who are financially poor but academically motivated from volunteer sites in China. Dream Corps allocates a certain amount of funds to each volunteer team to be distributed at the sites. The size of the fund and the number of students supported depends on funding available and local conditions. Unlike Hope Projects, the fund is administrated by volunteer teams working at the local sites.

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Family Visits

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Family Visits

Rural Community Profile [doc] Family Visits [doc]

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Family Visits

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Family Visits

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Facts at a Glance:

There are approximately 212 million people in China living on $1 or less a day. For children from those families, most of whom reside in the rural areas, having a book to read may just be a dream.

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The life of children in rural China features "no books" and "no reading". Poverty and inaccessibility to books combined with an environment discouraging intellectual reading have led to the absence of reading in rural children's lives. Lack of reading has seriously constrained the children's imagination, academic performances and life perspectives.

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