BFA CALLS FOR DONATION FOR ITS CHARITY PROGRAM

Since its founding in 2001, Boao Forum for Asia has received tremendous attention and support from Asian community and the rest of the world. With joint efforts of its members and sponsors, BFA launched its charity program in 2005 with the aim to work with all individuals and organizations who are interested in contributing for a better world with BFA and improving education infrastructure in those places in Asia that need help. In the past two years, BFA has successfully mobilized around 170,000 US Dollars and helped rebuild 6 primary schools in remote and mountainous minority areas in Hainan. BFA has also organized the representatives of donators once every year to the schools to oversee the implementation of projects. All the donations BFA mobilized in the past have been used for the recipients and BFA has covered all the operational cost of the implementation from its own account.

With the successful donation mobilization and implementation, BFA is ready to outreach for more children in more places. After discussing with major donators, this year, BFA will continue to help those children who come from poor and minority groups and score well in school. Further, BFA will rebuild a primary school in a mountain village called Ginsaugon in the municipality of St. Bernard in Southern Leyte, the Philippines. It was once a beautiful village but was completely wiped out by a major mudslide following days of heavy rains on Feb. 17, 2006.

BFA sincerely invites you to join in this charity effort and together we can contribute for a better world. As always, we would like to demonstrate a collective commitment of BFA sponsors, members and participants, so we still limit each donation within 5000 US Dollars (40,000 RMB Yuan). You may contribute now or during the Charity Dinner to be held on 22 April during the Conference. We will acknowledge your donation on site in the Charity Dinner Party and also on our website. Besides, we will hold a donation ceremony for Ginsaugon School.

For past BFA charity donators' list and schools BFA helped, pls check http://www.boaoforum.com/Html/csxd-en.asp

We have had the commitments from our long time partners such as Merrill Lynch, Deloitte, SK Group, COSCO, Degussa and many others that they will continue to support the charity efforts and we have even received the first donation from China Railway Construction Group (35,000 RMB Yuan). Please join us with this meaningful cause.

Besides this effort for donation mobilization, this year BFA will work with an art gallery called 3/4 and organize an exhibition of 40 paintings of female painters whose works will be displayed in the International Conference Centre in Boao for paper auction. All incomes from auction will go to the BFA Charity Program as well. If you are interested in paintings, pls take note of this during the Conference. We will have detailed description of the Painting Auction in the Handbook of AC 2007 that you can get once you arrive in Boao.

Thank you very much and we look forward to participation in this meaningful effort.

Contact Person: Ms. Xie Hong

Email: xiehong@boaoforum.org

T el: 86-10-65057377-612 or 86-13910127447

Fax: 86-10-65051833

Boao Forum for Asia