Taiwan charity group donates to quake-hit orphan school
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The Taiwan-based Eden Social Welfare Foundation has donated 1 million new Taiwan dollars (32,000 U.S. dollars) for an orphan school in the quake-hit Yushu prefecture of northwest China's Qinghai Province.
Foundation chief executive Huang Cho-sung said the fund would be mainly used to pay for life necessities and education for the orphans in the school.
Huang said Friday at the donation ceremony that the foundation would also send two teams to the school to visit the children in mid-May and July and help the school resume teaching.
The foundation planned to raise a total of 20 million new Taiwan dollars for the reconstruction of the orphan school.
In addition, tents and clothes collected by the group would also reach the quake zone in mid-May.
Six children were reportedly injured in the quake while the four-story orphan school collapsed. A total of 220 students are living in tents.
The devastating 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu has left 2,187 people dead and 80 missing. Among the 12,135 injured, 1,434 were in serious condition.
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