Book drives and book fair(s) to be held to help Earthquake victims in Sichuan, China
Submitted by Grace Li on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 13:42.
Last updated on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 21:26.
Vital Stats
ongoing project
07/01/2009
People Impacted:
3000People Involved: 50
Money Raised: Not yet
Project Video
The Problem
The deadly earthquake in Sichuan, China (May 2008) affected vast number of people. High school students face great challenges. Even while the school has not yet been restored, these students are expected to cope with not only the aftermath of the earthquake, but also their schoolwork and the extremely competitive college entrance examination. Since English is a required course in high school in China and the students don't have access to English books, we would like to help The No. 1 High School in Dujiangyan, Sichuan build an English book section.
Why It's Important
This project is very important to us because it is the expansion (continuation) of our previous projects. It is our goal and passion to help others in need.
In May, 2008, our family formed an organization, ‘We Care Act’, to help the earthquake victims by organizing fund raising activities. My younger sister and brother and I sent our collected cash to the American Red Cross first and then delivered the other donations to the student victims to Sichuan ourselves through a special trip arranged by our parents on August 12, 2008. After meeting with the students and residents and seeing the earthquake remains, we decided to help these and other disaster victims as much as we can.
The Plan Of Action
We will organize about 50-100 volunteers to participate in book drives and fundraising activities to collect English books and raise funds to help this high school.
How Can Others Get Involved?
There are many ways others can help us with our projects:
1. We accept cash donations.
2. We welcome others to participate our book drives and fundraising activities.
3. We can also help others to organize a book drive, bookmark fair, or fundraising activities. In fact, we have designed various bookmarks to be printed and others can print and make the bookmarks and hold a bookmark fair on their own easily. We can also make the bookmarks for those who are interested in selling them to raise funds.
Project Updates
11/2/09
Update:
We have some exciting news to share!
Our website is finally up and running! Please visit us at www.wecareact.org
Our organization We Care Act is officially a non-profit charity organization certified by the Secretary of State (Texas), and your donation will be tax deductable!
Recently, we have team leaders/members joined our effort from Canada, China, and US. We are recruiting new team leaders/members to join us to help others in need. Please post your comments here or contact us directly at wca@wecareact.org
Please help our project/organization (the disaster victims) by shopping at Amazon.com through our website—Amazon.com will donate 4%+ referral fee for every dollar you spend on your order THROUGH OUR WEBSITE at
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You are very inspirational! I would love to do something like that but I am not able to travel to china. I collected clothing for the earthquake victims last summer but was not able to ship them there. Instead I donated the clothing to another charity. Is there anyway I can send supplies to earthquake victims?
This sounds like a great project! If you haven't already, you should apply for a grant! Go to www.dosomething.org/grants
Dear save_wildlife,
Thank you for your kind comments!
Here is what we have done and I hope that will be helpful to you:
We collected money from our family, friends, neighbors, and schools through various activities including generating flyers and newsletters to let them know what we were doing. We also made and sold bookmarks to raise funds. Yes, we were fortunate to be able to visit Sichuan last year and deliver donations to the victims directly. But we also sent donations through the bank this year since we could not visit.
For the upcoming book drives, we plan to raise enough money to ship the books there. I know it’s expensive to send books through the post office but we have not found an inexpensive method yet. Usually, people are generous in helping out when they learn that their donations are for a good cause. If you want to raise funds, you should decide whether you would like to send money and/or send supplies, and that will probably be a factor in what the best method is.
If you would like further information or to discuss details with us over the phone or email, please send us (wecareact1@yahoo.com) your contact information and we will get back to you.
Thanks again and best of luck with your project!
Grace. =^.^=
Dear Abatista,
Thank you for your great suggestion! Yes, we have applied for a grant and hope to receive the good news soon.
Thanks again.
Grace. =^.^=
I would love to host a book fair in Atlanta, Goergia please contact me at MurphyC_20@yahoo.com