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senior United Nations Children’s Fund(UNICEF) official on May 29 praised China
for its remarkable achievements in children’s welfare(福利).
A. H.
M. Farook, UNICEF’s operations area officer for China and Mongolia said that
China “can be very satisfied to tell the whole world what can be done with
limited resources to help its children to grow healthily and happily.”
China’s
child population makes up one-fifth of the world’s total. “The reason behind
the tremendous(巨大的) achievement is China’s long
tradition of caring for children both at home and in society,” he said.
“What’s more is that Chinese people have
always given special attention to children who are in special need.” The UN
official made the remarks when addressing a group of 50 children and staff from the Beijing Children’s
Welfare Home at the Shangri-la Hotel, Beijing.
The
hotel invited the orphans to share snacks(小吃),
sing, dance and play games at a park inside the hotel for a “Share the
Sunshine” party, as a prelude(前奏) to celebrations to mark the
Children’s Day.
The
Beijing children’s Welfare Home, set up soon after New China was founded in
1949, has at present more than 400 children.
A
leading official of the welfare institution said that the children live a happy
life and that the agency(机构) spends 400-500 yuan a
month for an average orphan. An average Chinese workers earned 440 yuan
a month during the first quarter this year.
Gu
Xiaojin, deputy secretary-general of the China Youth Development
Foundation(CYDF), said people from all walks of life have contributed to the
welfare of the Chinese children.
She
said that CYDF set up the Project Hope in 1989, which calls on people across
the country to donate money to help poor children to continue their schooling.
By the
end of last year, she said, CYDF had collected nearly 700 million yuan
in donations, which has helped the establishment(建立)
of 2, 074 Hope primary schools and enabled more than 1. 25 million dropouts to
return to school classrooms.
Three
“Hope Stars” also attended the party. They were model teenagers chosen among
students who are economically supported by the Project Hope to further their
nine-year compulsory(义务) studies in the
poverty-stricken regions. They will be torchbearers(火炬接力者) for the Chinese Team for the up coming
Atlanta Olympic Games this year.