Annual Report 2018

2018 in Brief …

• We were able to redistribute 72% of all

material goods received : 714 care boxes

were sent out. Message from the Board • 5 of our projects also received financial 2018 was a milestone in the history of APM: thanks to the support and hard work donations. of our Chinese board members, in March we became an official registered Charity in • Over 8000 people received our help. China.

Other highlights of the year included the • Growth and success of our Upcycling opening of a new Book Corner in central activity. Shanghai and the growing success of our Upcycling activity. • Opening of our new downtown Book Corner The success of these projects and the volume of goods donated to us meant that 2018 was once again a tremendous year in terms of both redistribution of goods and financial aid.

We remained true to APM’s aim of providing targeted help and long-lasting support to the most needy in China, whilst recycling second-hand goods.

All the APM board members would like to warmly thank all the volunteers, supporters and sponsors who helped make 2018 yet another successful year.

We count on your continuing support in 2019, which will be another milestone for us : our 20th anniversary !

The APM Board

Our Strategy - Up-close and personal APM actively seeks out projects through personal exchanges and recommandations. Contact is maintained throughout the year with project leaders in the field, to ensure that the projects are both well-founded and durable. This close involvement, along with continual assessment of our diverse projects, allows APM to assist and support our various beneficiaries as needed.

- Listening and adapting Whenever possible we apply « push » rather than « pull » tactics ; adapting to the particular needs of each project rather than making large indiscriminate donations. The volunteers at APM prepare boxes of clothes for specific underprivileged families. Monetary donations go directly to finance projected budgets which are closely monitored.

Redistribution of Goods :

1600 How many boxes did we send? • 25 projects received 714 1400 care boxes in 2018. 1200 1st hand • 53 % of our donations 2nd hand 1000 consisted of clothes, 26% were books, pens, school 800 items and toys. 600 • 77 % of our material 400 donations went to help 200

under-privileged children 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Who did we support in 2018? What we donated in 2018

0.3% 0.2% 9.1% 76.9% 12% 13.0% 0.5% 26% 43%

7% 10% 2%

disabled children Clothes under-privileged children Accessories (scarves, hats, gloves, swimsuits, shoes) orphans Furniture under-privileged families Household linen, home decoration other Toys, stationery, books, pens Others Redistribution of goods : Some of the projects we support

Under-privileged children: - Stepping-stones Shanghai, which helps with the schooling of children of migrant workers. - Hongbo School situated in the province of Henan - Xinxing which helps street kids in Shaanxi (6 centres & 1 boarding school) - Shanghai Young Bakers which trains young under-privileged adolescents to become qualified bakers. - Madaifu, which provides support to allow orphaned or abandoned kids to remain in their local community, in Gansu and Shaanxi, - And rural schools in Yunnan, Shandong, Guangxi, Henan, Ningxia, Gansu…

Under-privileged populations: - Terma foundation, that runs a programme of health care and education for Tibetan people (Gansu, Yunnan).

The Homeless: - The Renewal Center, Sam's Inn, Mr Huang’s House, three projects that help the homeless in Shanghai.

Disabled Children: - Heart to Heart Shanghai, which funds heart surgeries.

Disabled Orphans: - BaiHua Kids - Guizhou, that shelters disabled orphans, offering them a home and love as well as covering their medical needs. Financial Aid

Financial support in 2018 • 5 projects received

financial aid in 2018. 15%

• 81 % of our financial aid 8% went to support under- privileged children or 11% 66% orphans. • 74 % of our financial aid was used for rent, running costs and salaries. Salaries Medicine & hospital fees Rent & Running Costs Libraries

§ Shanghai Young Bakers and Shanghai Healing Home are the two largest projects that received our financial help in 2018.

§ Rent fees, running costs and staff salaries are the most difficult for projects to fund and the area which increasingly needs our financial support. Financial Aid : The projects supported in 2018

Shanghai Healing Home A non-profit foster home assisting the local Chinese Children‘s Welfare Institutes by providing pre and post-surgical care to abandoned Chinese orphan babies born with surgically correctable deformities. Shanghai Healing Home provides a home-like environment that meets the babies’ physical, emotional and developmental needs.

The Renewal Center in Shanghai The Renewal Center runs a drop-in center, opened 6 days a week, that provides free showers, clothing and a meal to homeless people in Shanghai. They welcomed more than 500 men & women, and served over 7500 meals this year. The charity also runs a social job-training program. This program helps homeless people to gain job skills in order to find a full-time job. APM and The Renewal Center started a partnership: APM can call on their trainees for help, such as loading care boxes.

Shanghai Young Bakers (SYB) in Shanghai SYB is a charity program that provides a high-quality training in French bakery and pastry skills to under-privileged Chinese youth, enabling them to find stable, qualified jobs and lead independent lives. There are around 30 students per yearly intake. The training lasts one year and includes French bakery & pastry, Chinese-style Western bakery, life skills, English language lessons, outings, and a part-time internship at 4 or 5 star international hotels. APM funds the salary of the social educator. As part of our partnership with SYB, the youth trainees come and volunteer at our warehouse twice per semester.

Heart to Heart Shanghai Their mission is to provide support and financial assistance to indigent Chinese children who require heart surgery and to provide financial assistance to rural Chinese schools which require libraries, sports equipment and other essentials

Our Organisation

APM is an independent charity, active in China since 1999. APM is a team of over 65 volunteers, united in working to A Big Thank-You to all our Benefactors ! help the poor and needy. APM works out of a depot, open Thanks to the generous and unstinting support of companies, We three work mornings a week, which out of a depot, open associations, groups and individuals through financial three receives mornings material per donations week. Our and contributions and donations in kind (clothes, decorative items, team of volunteers receive and sort organizes charity bazaars. This books, space, time…), APM once again obtained excellent results material organization donations, allows prepare for a better care- in 2018. management of goods received/ boxes to send out to the projects The APM team would especially like to thank : expedited; regular open-days; a we support and organize charity place for our volunteers to meet up bazaars. This organization allows and a better integration in the Acadomia Asia – The American School of Shanghai – for a better management of goods heart of the Chinese community. Awesome Kids – Beaumanoir – We received/expedited, hold one open-day regular at open- our BIC Group – British International School of Shanghai – days, a place for our volunteers to depot each month, on a Saturday. Cache-Cache – Camaieu – Carrefour Global Sourcing – CCFS – meet up and identify with, and a Community Center Shanghai – Elee Logistics – better integration in the heart of APM is made up of a team of over Epices & Foie Gras – Expat Show – The French Consulate – 65the Chinese community. volunteers, united in working to Gascogne Management – German School Shanghai – help the poor and needy. Funds raised from sales at our Hangzhou International School - Id Group – showroom and charity bazaars are Jiashan Market - Juratoys – used to financially support projects Kagari Singapore Ltd – Kate & Kimi - – and cover our operating costs. We Leewah Villas – LFS Qingpu – LFS Pudong – hold one open-day at our depot Magnolia School – Mandarin Inn – Marjane Global Sourcing – each month, on a Saturday. Mrs Appia – Mr Huang – Mr Danny Low –

Mrs Maaike H. & Mrs Anita S. – Melody Preschool - Mirtex Enterprise Co Ltd – The Rotary Club of Shanghai – Shanghai Accueil – Shanghai United Hospital - Tape à l’Oeil - YCIS – YK PAO School - Will foundation – Wishu … … as well as all our anonymous donors !

Without your tremendous generosity and support APM would not be able to help so many projects.

THANK YOU, One and All ! Finances

Income Redistribution 5% 0% 2% 2% 4% 2% 2% 15% 2% 40% 25% 3% 62% 16%

20% Material donations sorted & re-distributed Material donations sorted & sold on Financial donations clothes toys, stationneries, books, pens Sales of New books other material donations libraries&education Sales of 2nd hand books salaries rent&running costs Upcycling others financial donation medecine & hospital fees Other

• The majority of our resources are material donations APM’s pledges from both individuals and companies. Every week we receive donations of clothes, small items of furniture • Moral responsibility: and second-hand objects at our depot. These are then APM pledges to use all donations sorted by our volunteers into that which could be sent received, whether material or monetary, according to the donor’s instructions and directly to our various projects, and that which will be in accordance with the goals of the sold on to raise funds for them. association. • Overhead costs are restricted to covering the • Efficiency: operational basics (rental of the depot, transporting APM pledges to do its utmost to work as boxes..) and unavoidable fees (bank, internet site…). efficiently as possible in order to avoid any These costs are entirely covered by the income wastage and thus maximise the redistribution of all donations received. generated by our activities (charity bazaars either at • Transparency : our depot or out in the community). APM pledges absolute transparency to its donors and sponsors and willingly 100 % of your financial donations are used to provides any information requested support our activities in China. concerning their donations.

Our Main Objectives for 2019 ✓ Continue to improve the way we collect by increasing the number of calls for specific donations. ✓ Continue to develop partnerships with new projects locally to broaden our ties with communities of needy people in Shanghai. ✓ To enlarge our network of sponsors and financial aid so that we can support more projects. ✓ Run a publicity campaign to inform clients, donors and sponsors that we have moved and make ourselves known in the new neighbourhood. Books Division

The APM Book Corners Second-hand books received as donations are APM Publications sold in our three Book Corners: one at our APM publishes its own collection of books for Qingpu depot and two at external locations, hosted by our partners Acadomia Asia (Qingpu) local expats, which has proved to be an and Mandarin Inn (Former French Concession). excellent fund-raiser and popular gift :

Our latest Book corner, at Mandarin Inn, opened ▪ Our Bilingual Guidebook “Walks in the Heart in December 2018 and is already proving popular of the French Concession”. with local expats, students at the school and local Chinese clients. ▪ Our two tri-lingual cookbooks: The books team also has stands at APM charity "Baguettes & Fourchettes Volume 2" and bazaars and school book fairs. "Baguettes & Fourchettes at the market”.

2018 also saw the start of a successful trial to sell

books by Wechat.

APM Book Corner at Mandarin Inn French Concession 1/F 1280 HuaiHai Middle Road Open Tues & Fri 1:30 - 3:30pm

APM Book Corner at Acadomia Qingpu 491 Gaojing Garden GaoGuang Road

Open Mon-Fri 8am - 5:30pm & Sat 9am - noon

In 2018, sales of books helped us to fund 2 libraries in rural China. APM Upcycling

From a modest debut in 2016 as a means of adding value to a donation of fabric samples, our Upcycling activity has grown each year and is now an important entity for APM.

Our team of talented seamstresses and handywomen transform fabrics and unwanted items into a range of beautiful and original craft gifts, which are then sold not only at APM’s own charity bazaars but also, increasingly, at various craft fairs in central Shanghai, raising the profile of APM within the international community. Such is the popularity of certain items that the team is currently exploring ways to sell them by correspondence.

6 ways 6 ways YOUYOU can help us… can help us… 6 ways 6 ways YOUYOU can help us… can help us… Make a MATERIAL DONATION • Please refer to our guidelines for donations for details of what we need the most.

Make a FINANCIAL DONATION • To support a particular project • Or, to help us carry out our activities and projects in general

LOAN A SPACE • in which we can organise a charity event

ORGANISE • Special ‘Donation days’ in your compound or your company • Books Fairs in Qingpu, Hongqiao, downtown or in Pudong • Events or charity sales in your compounds or companies

VOLUNTEER …. give a little of your time: • Help sort the goods we collect, • Help at a charity sale, • Help keep our depot open, • If you enjoy sewing or craftwork, join our Upcycling team • Become an ambassador for "Baguettes & Fourchettes", facilitating sales events and marketing B&F to the local community (schools, compounds, fairs, companies…)

VOLUNTEER … with enthusiasm and passion: • Run specific projects, • Run and organize the redistribution of materials goods and financial aid, • Be in charge of relations with our donors and sponsors, • Market APM’s publications • Use your skills to help us to improve our communication (Website / WeChat / Posters, Newsletters...) GUIDELINES FOR DONATIONS We take most things that are in clean and good condition To preserve the dignity of the people we help, we only send them items that are new or gently used. If in doubt, think whether you would wear or use it yourself... Clothes and soft toys must be freshly washed.

WE PARTICULARLY NEED: WE CANNOT TAKE: X Household linen (sheets, pillowcases...) ü Clothes for all seasons Men, Women and Kids >3yrs. Clean and in good X Furniture, Carpets condition, with no holes or stains. Max size for adult clothes: XL – Women 42/44 (US 14). X Bikes, pushchairs

ü New, unused toiletry kits from hotels or X Electrical items (Lamps, Kitchen planes appliances…)

ü Books for Adults and Children, in good X Food, Medicines condition with no tears, creases or yellow pages. In English, French, or Chinese. X Battery-operated toys, DVDs & CDs

ü Toys in good condition with no broken or X Baby bottles, breast pumps, missing parts (eg Playmobil, DUPLO, LEGO, sterilizers… Barbie dolls, Toy cars) X Used plastic tableware ü Board games and Jigsaws with no missing pieces

ü Freshly washed soft toys in good condition HOW TO FIND OUR QINGPU DEPOT ?

Building 8, Room 8215 (2nd Floor) ü Duvets and Quilts, freshly cleaned Xude Lu N° 59 Xujing Town, Qingpu, Shanghai ü Sports shoes, Trainers & Winter boots

Size 28 to 44 (US: Kids 11.5 – Adult 10.5) 上海市青浦区徐泾上海虹桥VEG (微格) 创意园徐德路59号8幢8215室 If in doubt, please send us a photo of the items before dropping them off and we will tell you whether or not we can accept them. By respecting these guidelines, you will help our volunteers save time when sorting donations and so ensure that the poor and needy receive our aid faster.

Call us on 182-1775-0124 Thank you for your help WeChat ID: APM-A-Pleines-Mains www.apleinesmains.com and support Email: [email protected] The APM team Your help is precious to us !

Thanks to you all, 2018 was a year of bounteous generosity and rewarding connections!

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and hope to continue receiving your support in 2019 !

Website : www.apleinesmains.com

APM is registered to Shanghai Qingpu District under the license n° 52310118MJ53051877