2019 HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE CHINA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 Fighting Shoulder to Shoulder with The Poor West China needs your support Chongqing Representative Office Sichuan Representative Office Yunnan Representative Office www.hppchina.org.cn ANNUAL REPORT 2019 1 About Humana People to People China Humana People to People China (HPP China) is an organization fighting with The Poor - foremost in poor rural villages – and aiming at sustainable development with an ‘Open Future’ for everyone. It is a non-political, non-religious, non-profit organization. HPP China is affiliated to ‘The Federation for Associations connected to the international HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE Movement. Humana People to People came to China in 2005. It started as the "Humana People to People Cooperation Project Office of Yunnan Province" under the cooperation with the Poverty Alleviation and Development Office of Yunnan Province in June 2005. It was recorded at the Civil Affairs Department of Yunnan Province as an overseas NGO representative office in Yunnan called "The Yunnan Office of the Federation for Associations Connected to the International Humana People to People Movement (Switzerland)" in July 2010. On March 29, 2017 it was registered as 'The Federation for Associations Connected to the International Humana People to People Movement (Switzerland) Yunnan Representative Office' at the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Department. On September 7, 2017 it was registered as 'The Federation for Associations Connected to the International Humana People to People Movement (Switzerland) Sichuan Representative Office' at the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department. On March 28, 2018 it was registered as 'The Federation for Associations Connected to the International Humana People to People Movement (Switzerland) Chongqing Representative Office' at the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau. Through our work we want to bridge the four big social gaps in China: Urban-Rural, East-West, Rich-Poor, and the gender gap. From 2005 to 2019, our projects in the sectors of rural preschool education, green poverty alleviation, rural community development and health and nutrition benefitted more than 3.8 million people. Our Purpose and Concept Humana People to People China is committed to creating better development opportunities for disadvantaged groups through solidary actions, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with those in need, striving for a better future. Our development work is rooted in a commitment to fight alongside The Poor in a collective process that supports people to make changes, improve their lives and solve their problems. Message from the Chief Representative 'Dear friends, colleagues, partners and stakeholders of our projects', The Government of China made significant progress towards the goal of reaching the ‘moderate well-off society’ by 2020. The economy grew with 2.8% GDP per capita from 9,982 USD in 2018 to 10,264 USD in 2019, which places China around no. 70 on a global ranking. An additional 11 Million people escaped poverty during 2019 and by year end there were about 5.5 Million Poor – a poverty incidence of 0.6% - left, which the government aims to lift out of poverty in 2020, 10 years before the deadline of the SDGs. Preschool education also was strengthened in 2019. In Yunnan Province the 3 year enrolment rate could be raised from 70% in 2017 to 79% in 2018 and 83% in 2019 and the number of children without access dropped from 600,000 in 2017 to 340,000 in 2019. Poverty rural areas still bear the brunt of the lack of education access, with only estimated 20-50 % of children able to access preschools. On the HIV front, China managed to conduct 230 million HIV tests from January – October 2019 and 131,000 new cases were reported, bringing the total reported cases to 958,000 as Contents of 31.10.2019, or to a National infection rate of 0.07%. Another 300,000 people are estimated to be unaware of their HIV- positive status. China has set the goal to eliminate Mother-to- Greeting from the Chief Representative Child transmission by 2022. 1 Our Projects With your support and hard work we touched the lives of 2 140,000 people in 10 projects in 2019. During the year we Our Work Teams started 2 new projects: Community Development Project (CD) 2 Puge and Preschools of the Future (POF) Huize - while we successfully completed 1 project: Farmers' Clubs Sanyuan. Governance 3 So progress happens on many fronts, but from a people’s Selected events from 2019 based perspective, much more needs to be done. Improving 4 the quality of life through better education access, increased Preschools of the Future (POF) Program sustainable income generation without destroying the 6 environment which nurtures us all and increased community awareness of infectious diseases as well as improving the Farmers' Green Action Clubs Program capacity of communities to become the drivers of their own 11 lives remain critical to accelerate social development in line Community Development (CD) Program with the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 13 In today’s difficult times each of us needs to become a peace Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE) Program builder, - peace between nations, peace between social 16 interest groups, peace between families, peace between men and women, peace between children and parents, and peace Our Partners between man and nature. 19 Our Supporters Thank you all for caring and working for 'The other'! Please 20 continue to improve the world! Financial Information 20 Michael Hermann Chief Representative The Federation for Associations Connected to the International Humana People to People Movement 21 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 1 Our Projects Households or Number of Province Project Work content classes reached Beneficiaries POF Huize Under the authorization of Huize County Education and Sports Bureau, Humana People to People assists in the management and implementation “One Village, One 15 336 of the "One Village, One Preschool" and "Pre-primary Class Turns into Preschool” Project Preschool" project. The project supports 720 young children in 30 preschools. The project cooperates with the Poverty Alleviation and Development Office of POF Longling County to set up community preschools in natural villages in remote Longling Project 12 463 and poor areas in idle buildings, it recruits and trains local preschool teachers and sets up parents committees. The project assists the Education and Sports Bureau in carrying out daily POF Ninger supervision of "One Village, One Preschool" and "Pre-primary Class Turns Yunnan into Preschool" classes, providing guidance and training to teachers, mainly “One Village, One 33 699 supplementing teachers' early childhood knowledge, course management Province Preschool” Project and teaching skills, and providing relevant tools and material support for the operation of preschools. The project is implemented in cooperation with Tengchong City Education POF and Sports Bureau, including hardware improvement, provision of toys and 16 471 teaching tools, and teacher training services; guidance and management for Tengchong Project the daily running of the preschool; assistance for teachers to carry out training for the parents. The project is supported by the World Bank and Yunnan Provincial Education POF Department Loan Project and the China Charities Aid Foundation for Children. 9 272 The Representative Office of Humana People to People provides technical Qiaojia Project and consulting services, initiated pilot projects, and supported the renovation in some preschools. The POF kindergarten is managed together with the central primary school, and HPP assigned 3 preschool management staff. The project organizes different types of training activities to improve preschool management, POF Puge Project 6 235 education and teaching, teachers' ability, children's living and teaching environment, to actively mobilize community efforts, and strive to turn it into a "One Township, One Kindergarten" demonstration preschool in Puge County. Tackling Childhood Relying on preschools and rural communities, the project aims at "home & Malnutrition: Rural preschool cooperation" to improve children's nutrition, health and hygiene. development for In the schools, children's good hygiene habits are cultivated through hygiene 220 730 classes, club theme activities and the provision of hygiene materials. At home, underserved Yi the project provides chicks and vegetable seeds to parents, organizes village community in cleaning actions and health check for children, as well as carries out much Sichuan China training on health, hygiene and agricultural practices. Province Comprehensive Rural Community The project sets up villager action groups for mutual support, provides Development villagers with chicks and vegetable seeds, carries out trainings on health Project in and hygiene, agricultural practices, cooking classes, improves drinking water 459 1,802 supply, rebuilds unsafe bridges, all with the purpose to sustainably improve Liangshan Yi children's nutrition condition and living conditions of families and communities; Autonomous In addition, sow breeding and pass on has been set up to improve the income Prefecture, of very poor single women families. Sichuan Province Total Control of the Through training, on-site monitoring and guidance, the TCE project has Epidemic Project improved the HIV/AIDS prevention and training capabilities of 281 TCE officers 127,000 in 14 villages and towns in Bhutto, Zhaojue, Meigu and Jinyang counties of in Liangshan