Projects in China
Yangtze River Elementary School, Guangdong Province, China
In Shigutang, a remote mountain village in the Guangdong Province of China, the Nathan Yip Foundation built a new 17,000 square foot school fully equipped with a library and athletic facilities. This Chinese mountain community is comprised of rural farm children whose parents cannot afford to send their children to school. At the school’s opening dedication in 2004, the Yip family was greeted with rain, which was fitting as the building was named after Nathan’s Chinese name, Hawlin, which means heavy rain.
The Foundation sponsors all 61 students at this school in Yangda on an ongoing basis. The cost is $150 per child to cover all educational supplies and school fees.
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Shitan Salesian Children’s Center, Guangdong Province, China
The Nathan Yip Foundation provides ongoing monetary and educational support for the Shitan Salesian Children’s Center in Shitan, Guangdong Province, China.
The school’s mission is to provide room, board, and education to children from the most severe home environments. The school cares for the children, providing them with education, care, and room and board until they are ready for university.
Currently, the Nathan Yip Foundation sponsors all 30 of students at the Shitan Salesian Children’s Center. The cost of sponsoring a child is $150 per child and covers all educational supplies and school fees.
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The Nathan Yip School of Hope, Jiangxi Province, China
An Elementary School in New City, Zhangmu Village, Xingguo Region,
Jiangxi Province, China
The Nathan Yip School of Hope in New City is located in one of the poorest and most remote areas in China, with an annual household income of less than $190 USD.
The old school was built in 1973 with unsafe construction methods and materials. Before it was renovated and expanded, the school had a capacity of 350 students. With its small space (roughly 3,000 square feet for 350 students), first and second year students had to share the same classroom.
The Nathan Yip Foundation provided funds to build a two-story school, doubling the space to roughly 6,000 square feet. With these larger facilities and a new basketball court, the new school can easily house over 400 students and 9 teachers.
The Nathan Yip School of Hope, Hunan Province, China
Taiping Mountain, Tian Tang Village, Yizhang Region
The Yizhang Region in China has a population of 500,000. Tian Tang Village is located in a mountainous area where farmland and water are scarce. Due to its lack of economic development, the old school was built in 1975 with poor construction and materials. With over 30 years of no repair, the school had become a danger to both students and teachers.
The Nathan Yip Foundation provided funds to build a brand new school with roughly 5,000 square feet of classroom space, complete with a basketball court. The new school can accommodate over 400 students. Currently it has over 100 students and 3 teachers.
Before the new school was built, only elementary age students could receive their education in their own village. Middle and high school students had to walk 6 kilometers to attend school in another village. Today, all students in the village are benefiting from the Taiping Mountain Nathan Yip School of Hope.
Lizi Elementary School, Guizhou Province, China
Fangzhao, Taijiang Region
In Lizi, a remote mountainous village in China’s Guizhou Province, the Nathan Yip Foundation completed a 6,000 square foot school for the village children.
This Chinese mountain community has never had a school for the village children. The school was opened in April 2008 and 150 students now can attend school.
The Foundation sponsors 30 students at this school. The cost of sponsoring a child is $150 per child to cover all educational supplies and school fees.
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Baisha Elementary School , Guangdong Province, China
Baisha Village, Kaiping Region
This school, now called the Nathan Yip School of Hope, is located in Kaiping county in the village of Baisha, a mountain farming community in China’s Guangdong Province.
In 2007, the Nathan Yip Foundation built a new two-story school for this community that now educates approximately 500 students. Most of the children come from a small farming community and their average per family income is $500USD a year.
The Foundation sponsors 11 students at this school. The cost of sponsoring a child is $150 per child to cover all educational supplies and school fees.
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Don Bosco Vocational School, Guangdong Province, China
The Nathan Yip Foundation provided full-year $600USD scholarships for 15 students at the Don Bosco Vocational School from 2004-2009. The Foundation also furnished all books for the school library.
The Don Bosco Vocational School was created in 1993 by the Hong Kong Charitable Foundation to cater to older students who are extremely poor. The Don Bosco School worked in cooperation with the Shitan Salesian Children’s Center. Typically, the students left the Shitan Center and moved directly to the Don Bosco School for vocational training so that they became independent, self-reliant contributors to the community.
Sadly, the school recently closed and the Foundation can no longer offer support.
Marian Childrens Home, Fujian Province, China
Fuzhou Region
Since the “One-Child Policy” was enforced in China as a means of population control, many girls and handicapped-infants were abandoned by their parents in hopes of conceiving and raising a boy, which traditionally would carry the family name and is therefore much preferred in China.
Over the past years Madam Xu, a fervent Catholic woman, rescued more than abandoned 600 babies. Since there was no permanent home for the children, Madam Xu searched for kind-hearted families and arranged for temporary fostering of these children. Each child was moved from one place to another throughout the year.
In 2003 Father Joseph Tai visited Fujian. He wanted the children to have a loving and caring home and started making plans to build and fund a new home for the children. Unfortunately he never saw his plan in action as he tragically died of cancer a year later in October 2004.
Bishop Che of Sai-Qi showed his sympathy to the children and allowed them to stay in the building assigned originally as priests’ quarters, until Madam Xu could find a permanent home for the children.
Through various organizations’ kindness and funding in the past three years, including a major contribution from the Nathan Yip Foundation, land was bought and money was raised to build a five story 2,000 square meter home for the children. This new home now provides a permanent and loving community to these many abandoned mentally and physically challenged children.
To help support the home, the Nathan Yip Foundation offers ongoing support to the children staying in this home. The cost of sponsoring a child is $150 and will cover all of their housing expenses, education, supplies, and school fees.
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Arberdeen Technical School, Don Bosco Seagull Project, Hong Kong
Jimmy Yip’s alma mater, the Aberdeen Technical School, is a high school located in Hong Kong for students interested in the sciences. The Nathan Yip Foundation supports a program for the gifted and outstanding students of science. This project funds scientific research and helps with the students’ science fair projects and competitions.
Quan Po Nathan Yip School of Hope, Guizhou Province, China
Village of Quan Po, Yuan He Region
The Quan Po Nathan Yip School of Hope is located in China’s southwestern province of Guizhou, in the mountainous village of Quan Po. The village is home to members of the Tujia people, one of China’s 55 ethnic minority groups.
Before this school was built, the one-room school house had roughly 50 students, grades 1 through 3. The students used to sit on wooden boards and concrete cinder blocks in a loosely constructed and non-insulated wooded building. With only one small building and one teacher, many children were denied an education.
Once the Nathan Yip School of Hope was constructed, Quan Po had the capacity to support 250 students from the surrounding villages. In 2010, the Nathan Yip Foundation was awarded a $5,000 grant from Western Union to complete this school and purchase much needed school furnishings and supplies.
Huomai Nathan Yip School of Hope, Guizhou Province, China
Village of Huomai
This school is the newest school to be built by the Nathan Yip Foundation. Completed in fall 2011, the students of Huomai now have a brand new school to study in. In October 2011, Linda, Jimmy, and several foundation supporters had the chance to visit the school for the grand opening ceremony. As the Yips do with every other school opening, the students were showered with the gift of new backpacks (pictured above)!
The Foundation now sponsors 12 students at this school. The cost of sponsoring a child is $150 per child to cover all educational supplies and school fees.
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