Criteria of selection:

1. For school projects:

We help all schools and all grades from K to 12. We distribute notebooks, pens, pencils, bicycles, and college tuition fees for 12th graders who passed the college entrance exam. To be selected, a student’s family must be on the village’s poverty’s list.

We get the list of students who meet the criteria from the principal of each school. When the goods to be distributed is less than the number needed,(like in the bicycle distribution project), it’s up to the teachers and the school principal to further select the most needy students amongst the poverty list.

2. For Rice Distribution:
We get the list of people in poverty directly from the local government, and distribute to as many families on this list as we have funding for that particular year. We have been providing for 200 families in the past. This year we are going to cover 300 families. For the elderly we also provide transportation if they live far and are too weak to carry 20 kilos of rice.

3. For housing projects:

Any one on the village’s poverty list can apply for help when their house is torn down. We also get the names from the village’s waiting list. The average waiting time for a family to get a house from the local government is 5 years. In the meantime, if their house collapsed, they will not have any place to live. The average life of a typical house in these villages is 4 to 5 years.

We post the pictures of these houses and the family’s condition on our website in the order of the waiting list; however, it’s up to our donors to pick from this website which one they want to sponsor. We will build the house as soon as we get the money from the donors.

The villagers can also initiate their request directly with our organization for help. In this case, we will check their poverty status with the village’s list, then inspect their house, and post it on the web. They will be considered the same way as if they were on the village’s waiting list. The reason we let our donor pick the house is because although some houses have not been long on the waiting list, they are in pretty bad shape and really needed to be fixed right away. A picture is worth a thousand words, our donors usually look and choose the most deserving ones to be built first.