Girls' Protection Project Upgraded to Charity Fund

Logo for the Girls' Protection Fund [cfcac.com.cn]

The initiative called Girls' Protection Project, which aims to promote sex education and protect young girls from sexual abuse, announced on July 7 that it will be transformed into a special-purpose fund.

The project was initiated by hundreds of female reporters on June 1, 2013 against the background of a raft of shocking sexual assaults on minors.

It had been operating under the Children's Safety Fund of China Social Assistance Foundation, a national charity organization engaged in social relief causes, since August 2013.

To date, the project has delivered lectures on preventing sexual abuse to over 54,000 school children and handed out over 200,000 copies of promotional pamphlets in 22 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across China.

The new Girls Protection Fund was established in joint collaboration with the China Foundation of Culture and Arts for Children (CFCAC), which focuses on child welfare.

The CFCAC thanked the Children's Safety Fund for its former support and wished to maintain the cooperative relationship in future and work together for the protection of children, in an announcement posted on its website.

It also thanked the efforts and the support of volunteers to the project in the past two years and vowed to join hands with them to protect children from sexual abuses in future.

(Source: China Women's News/Translated and edited by Women of China)