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sets that each child needs in order to become a productive, full-filled
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New School Tuition Sponsors Are Needed at $145 Per Child November 1, 2004 Update: Currently, we have 180 children sponsored in school and estimate that there will be additional enrollments needed for the Fall term. I hope that most of you will decide to continue your current sponsorship and that there will be some more of you who would like to begin sponsoring a child. And, if your schoolchild was adopted during the past school year I'd love to have you sponsor one of these new children. The costs vary depending on what level of school the child is in, from $78 for primary school to $155 for kindergarten and high school. But what I'd like to do again this year is average the costs for all the children (except those in university which costs quite a bit more) and have all school sponsors pay the same amount which would be $145. If you are already sponsoring a child in primary school and can't afford this increase let me know and I can supplement with general funds. By having all sponsors pay the same amount we can get started collecting the donations for the children. And it will greatly simplify our record-keeping and assignments of sponsors to children. If you sponsored a child last year and know that you want to sponsor a child again this year (either the same child if they're still in school or a different child if they've been adopted or dropped out for other reasons) go ahead and send your $145 donation made out to Altrusa Foundation (tax deductible) to me at: Altrusa Foundation If you only want to continue sponsorship if your previous child is still in school make a note of that on the memo line of your check and I won't deposit it until we have the final list from Amity. Peggy Gurrad will be coordinating the School Sponsorship program so please e-mail her at peggy@gurrad.com and let her know if you will be continuing your sponsorship or not. Feel free to e-mail her with other questions about school sponsorships as well. New school sponsors should also send their donation to me at the address above and can e-mail Peggy to let her know that your support is on it's way. If you have preferences as to age or sex of the child or the orphanage the child is from you can include that in your e-mail to Andrea as she'll be making the assignments. But we can't guarantee that we can meet all requests. If you don't have a strong preference then it would be easiest for Andrea to just place you where most needed. If you ONLY want to sponsor a child from a certain orphanage, put that on the memo line of your check and I won't deposit until we know for sure if we can grant your request. Please note if you only want the donation used for schoolchildren or if it could be used for Hugging Grannies instead if we happen to get more sponsors than we need. You could write "Schoolchild/Granny" or "Only Schoolchild" on the memo line. I'll hold off on depositing the "Only Schoolchild" donations. New sponsors will get an info sheet and photo of the child they'll be sponsoring and if they were sponsored by us last year we'll send you a copy of the school report. If the child is new to our sponsorship program we'll send you the info sheet and photo but it may take a couple months to get all of these sent from the orphanages, translated by Amity, and mailed to us and then to you. We won't get mid-year school reports and photos this year since Amity just isn't able to do this with the small staff they have (to keep their administrative costs low) but we will continue to get the end of the year reports and photos. You can write to your schoolchild by sending letters (with photos and small gifts if desired) directly to the orphanage. You probably won't get an acknowledgement back but as far as I can tell the children do receive these letters and gifts and are thrilled with them. Here's a message from one of our schoolchild sponsors who was able to visit the orphanage where she is sponsoring a child (the orphanage her older daughter was adopted from) while in China to adopt another child: "The girls and I tore off to Fuzhou (Linchuan) to visit with Meiya's foster mom. We met with Director Zhou and were given a tour of the orphanage. We were able to meet in person with the young girl we sponsor (via Peggy Gurrad and Altrusa foundation) for tuition. What a doll. She came to Mr. Zhou's office to meet us carrying a bag with the letter, diary, photo and gel pen I sent to her last year. Talk about tearing your heart out. I would strongly suggest that if any of you are sponsoring a child you take the opportunity to correspond with them...it obviously means a lot to these kids!" |
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Actual School Tuition Fees Are As Follows: (Please note that this year we're standardizing on $145 per year for all school tuition sponsorship contributions to simplify record-keeping.) Preschool: $155 per year Kindergarten: $155 per year Primary School: $78 per year Junior Middle School: $104 per year Senior Middle School: $155 per year Vocational School: $155 per year Primary School for the Deaf: $155 per year Boarding School for the Deaf: $311 per year Future Teacher's High School: $155 General Education Fund: A general fund has also been set up for Special Education teachers, tutors and onsite teachers for the physically challenged children in some of the orphanages. If you'd like to help, please contact us.
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