Our Free Sky is a nonprofit volunteer organization formed on a voluntary basis, initiated by a group of OFS volunteers from all over the country of China and Chinese overseas. OFS’s campaigns include organizing book donations, building one-to-one help relations to provide financial assistance for young children who otherwise were forced to drop school in western China, and organizing volunteer teaching in west of China.
#whO2Mv 0M/\bEG(_ Since Wang Yi worked in the field, he has been fascinated by natural scenes and developed a great passion for nature. At the same time, he was shocked by the extreme poverty and the consequent insufficient basic education in some regions in western China. Three years ago he decided to do something to help the situation. In 2004, he started the preparation and made an outline. Last year, he established a nonprofit volunteer organization, named Our Free Sky (OFS), based on website
www.ourfreesky.org. There are more than 3000 registered members and nearly 100 volunteers from all over the country up to the present.
=B/s HN ?FY@fO?es Achievements w{YtTZp3 m 1'&{O: The western schools, such as Geza village primary school in Shangri-La County, Ludian village middle school, Xinzhu, Chufeng, Anle, Ludian and Taiping village primary school in Yulong County, YunNan Province; Baiyi and Dingbo village primary school in Xiangcheng County, SiChuan Province; Wujia Ying primary school in Lueyang County, Shaanxi Province, have received more than 5000 books, donated by OFS volunteers, up to today.
cjy0s+>> &|'Kut?8 Up to today, nearly 100 primary and middle school minority students in YunNan and SiChuan Province have received One-to-One-continual financial aids through OFS and continued their education otherwise in jeopardy.
y7;XOPm 6S! lD= 14 OFS volunteer teachers have been to Shangri-la County, YunNan Province to carry on volunteer teaching for half a year to one year. More OFS volunteers are preparing for this campaign.
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+O~ The Centers of Book Donation for love are built mainly to help primary school and middle school students in depressed western mountainous areas such as in YunNan, SiChuan, ShaanXi, GanSu, or motivated children with financial difficulty, disabled children, convicts, recoverer in drug rehabilitation centers from the nation. We will collect books from local community donations, and donate them to focal schools in western depressed regions, or community and individuals in need in a planned, organized fashion. Our Free Sky has established book donation centers in 11 provinces, including BeiJing, ShangHai, ShaanXi, GuangDong, AnHui, YunNan, SiChuan, HeiLongjiang, JiLin, LiaoNing, ShanDong. The main responsibilities of the book donation group include: to contact the persons in charge of the book donation centers in different local areas, to register and organize collected books, to announce the time and place for each donation event, and to make public the whereabouts of donated books and the detailed list in time after each event.
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