Charity Lecture, New Fund Help Students with Startups, Life

A new fund that will help underprivileged students and support start-ups was launched, and also a lecture on student employment and entrepreneurship was given, at China Women's University (CWU) in Beijing on May 21.

Member of the Secretariat and Member of the Party Leadership Group of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) Deng Li, together with Vice-President and Secretary-General of the China Women's Development Foundation (CWDF), Qin Guoying, attended the ceremony. In addition, President of CWU Liu Liqun, along with Cheng Jianyi, chairperson and general manager of Fujian Nuomei Personal Care Products (a company from southeast China's Fujian Province), were also present at the event, along with journalists and reporters from around 20 media outlets.

CWU served as the first stop on the campaign for "The Nuomei Fund Backing the Study and Entrepreneurial Efforts of Female College Students". The fund will organize public service activities in 25 universities in Beijing as well as across east China's Anhui Province, south China's Guangdong Province and central China's Hunan and Henan provinces this year.

Eighty college students from disadvantaged backgrounds studying at CWU received grants and daily necessities worth 120,000 yuan (U.S. $19,356) and 80,000 yuan (U.S. $12,904) respectively, as contributed by the fund to support recipients' daily life.

During the launch ceremony, Liu Liqun, on behalf of CWU, expressed her heartfelt thanks to the CWDF for its long-time support and the company for its financial support. Meanwhile, Liu also introduced the history and the development of CWU to attendees.

Liu appealed that all the students should remember the school motto "Virtus, Caritas, Scientia and Cultura" (Virtue, Charity, Knowledge and Culture) by heart whilst cultivating themselves to enhance their moral awareness for repaying the whole society. In addition, students from CWU need to foster their awareness to make contributions to the public cause or public welfare. Furthermore, students should also bear social responsibilities because they are part of society. More importantly, they should also assume responsibility for carrying forward the virtue of altruism.

Following the launch event, Liu Zhimin, a senior enterprise trainer, gave a public lecture on college students' employment and entrepreneurship, which was attended by around 350 students from CWU.

As far as CWU was concerned, the grants could provide financial support to those impoverished college students to start their own business and also inspire them to improve themselves. Those students present implied that they would exert their efforts to study hard whilst participating in social welfare as a way of repaying society.

(Source: cwu.edu.cn/Translated and edited by Women of China)