Please click here to read the letter of "Request for Help" we are sending to RI public。

请点击旁边的链接查看我们向罗德岛大众发出的募款信 （英文，可打印）    （中文，可打印）

Please click here to read the "Letter of Support" from Lt. Governor Elizbeth Roberts.

请点击此处查看副州长给我们的支持信。（中文翻译件）

As of today, we have raised

QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS!       

THANK YOU RHODE ISLANDERS AND OUR FRIENDS IN NY, NJ, PA, CA, & MA         

for your donation, your time, thoughts and suggestions！

Happy belated birthday to Tia Browning!

Tia, an adopted child from China, just turned 11 on June 14. At her birthday party, she asked for donations instead of gifts for herself.please click here to see the note from her mum.

An eight-year-old girl living in East Greenwich sent us a little note with her donation. please click here to read it.

June 11. Mr. Peng Keyu (4th left), Ambassador, Consul General of the People's Republic of China in New York, accepted the check of $250,000.00 from Committee Chair Mr. Louis Yip.

click here to see the larger image.

click here to see the receipt.

A formal receipt will be provided to us later on.

Ambassador Peng highly praised Rhode Island Chinese community and  public for our  extraordinary efforts in raising so much fund for earthquake relief. He expresed that the Chinese government is imposing strict regulations on the allocation of relief funds so tthat all the money can be used properly.

June 12. We received a letter from Mr. Frank A. DeVall, Jr, Principal of  Edward R. Martin Middle Scoll in East Providence along with  a donation of $50 from the students. clicke here.

News from URI

Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Adviser of the China Earthquake Relief Committee of Rhode Island and Dr. Yan Ma, Vice Chair of the China Earthquake Relief Committee of Rhode Island carried their commitment, efforts, and spirit with them to the program of the Enhancing Multiculturalism: Chinese Cultural Immersion for Global Leaders and Partners in Higher Education, Hangzhou, China, May 25-28, 2008.

The URI delegation members of Vice Provost Lynn Pasquerella, Dr. Harold Bibb, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, Mr. Melvin Wade, Director of the URI Multicultural Center, and Dr. Yan Ma Professor and Director of the Confucius Institute at URI organized, donated, and worked with conference participants from Ireland, Australia, Netherlands, and US to raise funds in China to help the earthquake victims. The $1150 raised funds were sent to the China Red Cross on Hangzhou. The local newspaper in China reported our fund raising event. We are a group from Rhode Island, USA. President Robert Carothers immediately joined us for the fund raising.

Here is the link to read the news release of the donation to help the earthquake victims by Hangzhou.com:

http://www.hangzhou.com.cn/20080505/ca1505926.htm

Beautiful Wenchuan before the quake. 

震前的美丽汶川

截止今日，我们已筹集到二十五万美元。

罗德岛人和我们在纽约，新泽西，宾州， 加州和麻州的朋友们----

感谢您的捐款，您的时间，关怀和建议。

六月十一日，中国驻纽约总领事彭克玉大使在总领馆接受了委员会成员专程送达的二十五万美元赈灾善款。

点击这里查看大图。