The mission of this NGO is to transform and empower underprivileged youth in China by instilling in them the Four C's - confidence, courage, commitment and care. Through its values activities and arts and sports programs, CAI works with teachers and students in under-served communities to promote mental, emotional, and physical health.

CAI Programs

Arts & Sports Training
They aim to promote healthy emotional and physical development of underprivileged children through creative arts and sports education, by teaching them life-long skills and values that make them productive members of society. During the second semester of 2008, they held these programs in four migrant schools around Beijing. About 200 children and 30 volunteers were involved.

Creative arts help develop essential communication skills, because the children learn to express themselves by means of creation. In addition, studies show that arts raise self-confidence and build effective problem-solving skills. The arts also instill values, both personal and social, and are a way of expressing one's reflection on society. Thus, art education gives children a voice, potentially a voice for change.

Team sports teach integrity, loyalty and morals. Simultaneously, it develops leadership, negotiation and communication skills, and boosts self-confidence and self-image. It also helps in children’s mental, emotional and physical development. By doing competitive sports, children will learn the importance of teamwork and develop courage to face impact and conflict. Sports are a proven tool for promoting healthy lifestyle behavior and positive character development.

Teacher Training
Through their teacher training programs they seek to build capacity in rural schools, thereby trying to maximize the impact on children in rural areas. In October 2008 they completed a successful teacher training course for 22 P.E. teachers in Chongqing, giving an impact on about 2,500 rural children. Their programs in Beijing’s migrant schools allow them to research and develop further improvements for their teacher training program.

Promise School
In late 2009 they plan to open a bilingual academy for highly gifted rural students. Their focus will be middle to high school students with exceptional leadership potential and those gifted in music. The Promise School will give talented rural children a chance to become China's future business leaders and talented artists while also teaching them a sense of social responsibility. The Promise School will prepare these children for top international and Chinese universities.

Inter-collegiate Summer English Camp (ISEC)
international exchange between foreign students from top universities around the world (including Oxford-Cambridge, Princeton, and Harvard) and Chinese Since 1999 ISEC provides intensive English summer camps to develophigh school students. For the past 10 years, ISEC has been connecting high school students in China with the world and thereby facilitating China, US, and UK relations by creating a network of future leaders between these three countries.

China Orchid AIDS Project

This NGO was established in 2003, initially devoted to provide assistance and service to families affected by HIV/AIDS. It firstly began as a school and orphanage in Western Henan, providing service and education to AIDS orphans. In order to provide further support to people affected by HIV/AIDS, COAP developed AIDS Orphans Support Program and the Village Community Center Program.

In the AIDS Orphans Support Program, COAP served as the linking platform between charitable organizations and donors within and outside of rural villages in Henan Province, and AIDS affected families in rural villages in that region, aiming to financially support them. And the Village Community Center Program, situated in a village that is severely affected by HIV/AIDS, aimed to dispel discrimination and improve education for local AIDS-affected children through organizing events and providing essential resources for the local community. However, in September 2007, the two programs were ordered to be shut down.

In 2004, COAP set up its Beijing office and developed projects aimed at raising the public’s awareness on HIV/AIDS. In 2005, with support from Bayer, COAP printed and distributed 6000 copies of Dr. Gao Yaojie’s book, “The Investigation of AIDS in China”, to universities across China (Dr. Gao is a respectable doctor who dedicated her life on preventing and curing AIDS in China ). This book enables college students to have a better understanding of the situation of AIDS in China. COAP also gives lectures regarding HIV/AIDS in universities throughout China, encouraging college students to join the efforts of fighting against AIDS. In addition, COAP initiated AIDS Translation Project , translating AIDS-related information and experience reports at the international level into Chinese, granting AIDS workers within China access to essential information.

Currently COAP, in collaboration with Asia Catalyst, runs the Korekata AIDS Law Center, which aims to protect the rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS, establish a network of AIDS-NGOs and lawyers that links with international peer organizations, and publish Chinese-language materials on international AIDS law. In addition, COAP is planning projects that promote human rights awareness and education in China.

Mission
The mission of this NGO is to promote human rights education to the public, encourage the public to participate in the cause of public welfare, and to provide service, advocacy, and education to vulnerable groups in order to improve their human rights situations.

Hua Dan

This is a non-profit organization that uses the power of theatre and the arts to help individuals transform themselves and their societies. The organisation's focus in China is on empowering migrant and rural Chinese with the key life skills they need to improve their employability, social mobility and life quality. Hua Dan tries to achieve this through training migrant workers to deliver theatre arts workshops to other migrants. The workshops are based on a range of themes, especially involving specific issues migrants face, such as sexual harassment amongst migrant women, but also more general themes such as career development and communication skills. Techniques used in workshops are all drawn primarily from participatory theatre methods such as advanced role-play, improvisation, forum theatre, empathy and creativity building exercises.

Currently, Hua Dan has several programmes ongoing in local Chinese communities. Beansprouts is a children’s education programme which focuses on integrating more creative, experience-driven learning into migrant schools. The organisation’s Women’s Empowerment Programme focuses on building the individual skills of migrant women, which improves their long term employability and gives them the confidence to transform their lives. In addition, most recently Hua Dan began a long-term rehabilitation programme in Sichuan, where they are helping Sichuan children to build the confidence, communication and leadership skills they need for working together on rebuilding their lives and homes.

Bricks - The Great Wall Appeal

Mission

By making full use of the capabilities of the internet, this NGO brings economy and efficiency to the process of supporting start-up organisations in rural China. They offer capacity building and funding to small development projects of emerging non-profit organisations, underwritten by international corporations and individuals, (seen as investors in capacity building), using the internet for marketing, communications and funds transfer.

Opportunity
The organization sees itself as linking two key groups:.
· Companies and individuals internationally who wish to discharge their
social responsibility obligations in a manner specified to the real needs of the
non-profit sector in China, specifically in rural areas.
· Non-profit organisations in these rural areas that risk exclusion from
funds and capacity building because of their geographic and social isolation.
Bricks believes that the existing barriers to successful linkage can be overcome by imaginative use of the internet. The Bricks web presence, including its
social networking reach, will bring the women and men in rural China who offer
services to the poor closer to ‘investors in capacity building’, as they like to regard them. They believe that it is this web-assisted human connection which will create a bond across the divide and “build a Great Wall of Charity in China, brick by brick”.