AMITY A member of Annual Report 2013 Contents 01 A Message from the General Secretary 03 Project Reports 03 Church and Social Services 07 Community Development, Disaster Management, Environmental Protection, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Public Health 11 Education and Orphan Fostering 15 Education and International Exchange 20 Social Welfare 24 NGO Development 28 Urban Community Services 31 Resource Development 34 Amity Foundation, Hong Kong 43 Amity Printing Co., Ltd. 45 Who We Are 45 Organizational Chart 46 Amity Staff 47 Statistics 47 Where the funds come from 47 Where the funds go 48 List of Institutional Partners 55 Auditors Reports 2013 AMITY 01 A Message from the General Secretary In mid-January 2014, the Center for Civil Society Studies of Peking University announced Top Ten Events in Social Sectors in China 2013, among which were direct registration of four types of NGOs as a result of reforming the dual management system, population policy shift from quantity control to structure optimization remarked by the adoption of two-child fertility policy for couples where either the husband or the wife is from a single child family, citizens’ actions urging the government to share the responsibility to address the haze-highlighted environmental problems, Rule of Law in China as a resolution of the 3rd Plenary Session of 18th CPC Central Committee accompanied by a nationwide debate on political and legal basis for China Dream, and smoother cooperation between NGOs and the government occurring during Ya'an earthquake where the emergency response mechanism for disaster relief was challenged. Reading through the Top Ten Events, we find that more and more public voices were heard and taken seriously and eventually became driving forces to social development. We are lucky to enter a great era of novelty, openness and progresses. In such a great era, we should recognize changes timely, identify needs precisely, and face difficulties unhesitatingly. Moreover, we should be fearless to try, innovate, practice and implement. In 2013, the Amity Foundation faced challenges squarely. In response to Ya’an Earthquake, 23 Amity staffers and hundreds of Amity volunteers worked night and day in earthquake-affected areas for 5 weeks. Amity organized an unprecedented relief fleet 02 AMITY 2013 of 14 large trucks and 7 small ones upgraded existing eldercare opportunities, Amity re-launched to convey the relief supplies. Totally services. In cooperation with Monthly Donation to Support 13 batches of various relief supplies the government, the business Orphans on the payment channel were distributed. The highest value sector and volunteer teams from of WeChat and made branding of single-day distribution reached universities, Amity made great efforts through mobile social RMB 3.4 million. The remarkable efforts in NGO development and media platforms like WeTaobao relief experience is destined to community services focusing and LaiWang. We hope new become an indelible mark in on caring the elderly and the technologies will enable new ways Amity’s 25 years of relief efforts. differently-abled. for new philanthropy. In 2013, Amity eventually In 2013, Amity made continuous The year 2014 is seen as the first established the Grace Forever Care progresses in embracing year of China’s comprehensive Fund. As the first fund dedicated e-philanthropy. According to deepening of reform. The deepening to caring and helping professional the latest report of Internet of reform and the implementation philanthropist in China, the Grace development in China, the number of social governance are bound Forever Care Fund is not only of China's mobile phone Internet to have a profound impact on the a suffering alleviator, but also a users reached 464 million as development of the philanthropy symbol of humanitarian support of the end of June 2013. The sector. Reform means changes while from the public. proportion of those using mobile changes bring opportunities and phones to access Internet to all challenges. At the nearly 30 years In 2013, Amity led the way in Internet users increased to 78.5%. old Amity Foundation, we look many aspects. While steadily Among mobile applications, the forward to the changes and will facilitating the development of e-commerce ones experienced keep pace with them in full sail. rural communities, Amity tested particularly rapid development. the water of providing diversified The era of mobile Internet has services to urban communities. To arrived. While deconstructing meet the needs of an increasingly society, industries and lifestyles, the Qiu Zhonghui Vice Chair of the Board aging population, Amity launched mobile Internet brings more and General Secretary three new eldercare centers and newer opportunities. To take the The Amity Foundation 2013 AMITY 03 Church and Social Service “You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with richness.” (Psalms 65:11) I. Project Stories Zhi Li, “Striving to Stand” Zhi Li, a 19 years old boy, is considered as a “big brother” amongst our Family Retreat participants. For a normal boy, being 19 years old means he is free to leave his parents and go to college to start a new life journey. But the situation for Zhi Li is different. He was rejected by the world due to his disability. In the world’s eyes, Zhi Li is an unlucky child. His parents divorced A birthday celebration at the Family Retreat Camp when he was merely a baby. Thereafter, he was abandoned to his over 70 years old grandmother. He grandmother told us, he was so happy that he even forgot food and sleep. was also unable to walk and learn For the first time in his life, Zhi Li believed what he was often told, “we due to a serious brain injury caused all live under the same sky”. With helpful advices and encouragement by by a tragic accident during martial special education professionals from the US-based Joni & Friends, Zhi Li arts exercises in his early childhood. started to gain confidence for his own life. Defeating the thought of never His life was limited and filled with being able to walk, he tried to stand up. By leaning on balcony rail, Zhi Li gloom due to his disability. began to practice walking. But after the Family Retreat Camp, Now he is not afraid anymore of the outside world. He leaves his room, he Zhi Li’s change could be easily goes to church, and he even learns the Lord's Prayer. Zhi Li, whose name seen. Now he smiles and laughs. His means “striving to stand” in Chinese, stood up eventually! 04 AMITY 2013 Journey to Intimacy Family, the smallest unit of society, is also considered as the most basic element for social harmony. A Christian family is the witness of Christian’s Faith in the Lord. To promote the concept of building a harmonious family, Jiangsu Christian Charity Fund (JSCCF) invited Taiwan experts, Rev. Wang Weijing and Xie Mochou, to lecture in Jiangsu cities including Xuzhou, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang and Kunshan for the fifth Amity Yireh Salon ——“Journey to Intimacy” Couples Camp (Marriage Ministry Workshop). Twenty-five couples The Couples Camp from churches in Nanjing joined the camp. The Couples Camp helped the couples to understand each other again and enabled and facilitated the development the lame, and the blind. And you effective communication among of Amity Social Service Network. will be blessed, because they cannot them. Some couples came with Totally 36 projects of the program repay you, for you will be repaid at frozen connubiality, but left with were implemented in 13 cities the resurrection of the righteous” mutual understanding and warm across the province. Fund (Luke 14:13-14) hearts enabled by the experts. A available for JSCCF reached participant said, "It seems that the RMB 2.05 million. Eighteen Caring for those with disability camp has made us fall in love again. training workshops benefited 1474 and sufferings has always been the We trust each other more now." participants. The Environmental mission of churches. As a joint effort Protection Action engaged more of churches in Jiangsu Province, than 16,000 actionists. JSCCF sponsored the Disability II. Program Overview Ministry Workshop and the first Family Retreat, with the support Taking Jiangsu Christian Charity III. Achievements from Joni & Friends. Participants Fund (JSCCF) as the core of our to the disability ministry workshop work, we implemented church 1. Disability Ministry included 66 church leaders. The and social service projects, made Family Retreat Camp accommodated branding efforts, enhanced the Jesus said: “But when you give a 15 families with members with churches’ ability of social services, banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, impairment. 2013 AMITY 05 2. Churches’ Joint Action on Environmental Protection The Action features charity sales advocating environmental protection. In 2013, the Action was taken in 7 Jiangsu cities, namely Nanjing, Xuzhou, Taizhou, Kunshan, Wuxi, Suzhou and Zhenjiang. Amity facilitated the establishment of four environmental protection teams for churches in Zhenjiang, Xuzhou, Suzhou and Changzhou. More than 120 team members attended the training. The Environmental Protection Action has become a flagship of local churches’ social service ministry. Churches’ Joint Action on Environmental Protection in Changzhou A volunteer caring a child with impairment at the Family Retreat Camp 06 AMITY 2013 3. Sponsoring Poverty-stricken we arranged capacity building and promotion for eldercare Preachers workshops on church management organizations. and pastoral counseling, resulting The project “Sponsoring Poverty- in ability improvement and spiritual 5. Church Capacity Building stricken Preachers” aims to support enrichment for the supported preachers in underdeveloped areas preachers. To meet different capacity building of China. Guizhou was listed as needs of churches, differently- the initial province covered by the 4. Building the Amity Social themed skill training workshops project. In 2013, Yunan Province Service Network were held in northwest provinces, and underdeveloped north part southwest provinces, Henan of Jiangsu Province were added In 2013, 38 organizations were Province, and Jiangsu Province.