RBS Led Charity Campaign for Underprivileged Students in Yunnan Province

Located in the southwest corner of China, Lanping county, one of the country’s national level poverty-stricken areas, sees a long frost period during the winter, with the average temperature dropping below 0℃ and a sharp diurnal temperature range up to 20℃. Over 50% students there come from underprivileged families whose average annual income is less than 2000 yuan. One RBS graduate, Wu Qiuxiang, was once a volunteer teacher at the school who found out that most students lacked warm mattress pads to endure the winter. Upon knowledge of this situation, Wu reported it to the Student and CPC affairs office of RBS.

In response, RBS launched a charity campaign in December 2014 to help students of Lanping No.1 Middle School. With 16,800 yuan donated by RBS’ faculty, staff and students within two weeks, 120 mattress pads were purchased and delivered to Lanping. Though thousands of miles away, the hearts of underprivileged students at Lanping and those of ours at Beijing were connected at that very moment.