Amity Foundation

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Amity Foundation

• -- a Chinese NGO Related
• to the Chinese Christian church --

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Amity Has 50 Staff Members. Its Offices Are In
Nanjing
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Amity has built more than 500 schools in poor,
mountainous regions.
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When these childrens school building in Yunan
Province collapsed, they had no place to learn.
Amity built a new school.
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Amity has a training program for teachers in
rural areas and for teachers of the disabled.
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Amity has programs for the disabled, such as
these polio victims. Amity also has projects for
the blind and mentally retarded.
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Amity sponsors the Summer English Program
(SEP). This year, there are 54 foreign
teachers in the SEP program at 14 different
sites.
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Bob, Linda, Nancy Gil taught in Jinan in 2007.
Linda Bob taught in Dongying last summer.
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Amity provides materials and helps poor rural
villages build medical health clinics.
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This Amity-trained doctor built his own clinic
from Amity-provided materials.
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Amity sent this man to a 2-year doctor training
program and helped the village build a clinic.
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In Gongsa Village, Yunnan Province, before Amity
helped build this new clinic, this Amity-trained
doctor treated patients in her own home. Amity
sent this doctor to training school.
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Amity provides medicines that would otherwise
not be available in the rural area. The medicines
are cheaper so that patients can afford them.
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Amity doctors provide medical treatment where it
was not previously available.
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Amitys micro-loan project loans small amounts of
money to poor rural women to start small
businesses and become the bread winners of their
families. The loan program gives woman power
respect.
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Amity does HIV-AIDS prevention in areas where
drug use is high, such as in Lingcang, Yunnan
province.
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Amity gives assistance to families of AIDS
victims. AIDS victims work for Amity in AIDS
prevention work.
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Amity does disaster relief. Amity quickly took
bottled water to the earthquake victims.
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Amity distributed winter coats in the earthquake
area
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In this earthquake village, Amity gave a new
winter coat to every villager.
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Amity built new earthquake-proof buildings.
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Amity put up temporary prefabricated housing in
the earthquake area.
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Amitys teaches rural villagers the best animal
raising techniques.
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Amity teaches rural villagers the best way to
raise hogs.
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Amitys hog-raising projects produce biogas that
brings electricity to rural villages.
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The hogs are kept in pens to capture their manure.
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The manure is stored in under ground tanks where
it ferments and creates biogas .
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The biogas provides each home in this small
village with electricity for cooking lights
which helps the environment.
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Amity shows farmers how to use terracing in
mountainous areas.
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Amity has tree planting projects.
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Amity piped water into this village. Previously,
villagers had to walk five miles to get water.
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Amity helps rural villages capture and store
mountain runoff water.
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Amity builds water reservoirs to store water in
dry rural areas.
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In dry areas, Amity shows villagers how to
capture and store water in underground cisterns
so that it will not evaporate in the dry season.
This village now has water all year long.
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Storage of water allows farmers to irrigate their
fields to grow crops in the dry season and in
very dry areas.
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Amity provides the knowledge and materials
to rural villagers to build irrigation ditches.
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The irrigation projects bring water to fields
that were previously too dry to grow crops.
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Farmers in dry rural areas can now grow more
crops.
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Rural farmers can grow crops in the dry season
have more food to feed their family to sell.
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Amity shows farmers how to build hot houses to
keep in moisture for growing vegetables in the
dry season.
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Villagers are very appreciative of everything
Amity has done for them and greet Amity
staff with clapping and singing.
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The Wa Minority people appreciated the work Amity
has done in their villages, and put on a dance
program for Amity guests.
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Amity supports Henan Province orphaned children
whose parents died of HIV/AIDS.
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This orphaned child has been supported by Amity
for several years.
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With Amitys support, he goes to school has
school supplies and enough to eat.
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This little girl now goes to school with Amitys
help and has warm clothes for winter.
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This orphan can continue to live with her very
poor grandparents due to Amitys help.
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Amity visits the orphans regularly takes them
small gifts of school supplies, soap, tooth
paste, toothbrushes, etc.
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This orphan now has winter clothes for the cold
weather so she can go to school and some protein
in her diet.
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These brothers can now afford school uniforms.
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Amity recruits church members to visit AIDS
orphans and help them with homework , etc.
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In 2005, Lind helped Amity break ground for a
new state-of-the-art building for printing
Bibles, etc.
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Amity has a state-of-the-art printing press in
Nanjing.
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Amity Printing Co. is the largest printing
company in Asia.
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Amity Printing Co. prints 12 million Bibles a
year in 70 different languages.
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Amity Printing Co. sends Bibles to churches
throughout China to many other countries.
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Discussion Topics

• Why do you think the Amity Foundation chose the
  Chinese name Ai De, and why do you think they
  chose the English name Amity?
• Why is it important that Amity is a Chinese
  organization?
• Do you think it is important that Amity involve
  the people of the community it serves in its
  projects?
• Of the many kinds of projects that Amity does,
  which ones interest you the most and why?
• If you could design some sort of community
  service project, what would it be and whom would
  it serve?
• Why do you think it is important that Amity do
  projects with Chinas minority groups?
• What other Chinese organizations do community
  service projects in China?
• What groups in your community need or could use
  services such as those Amity provides?
• Why do you think Amity considers the Summer
  English Program important?