SPF Donates a School Bus to Basa Middle School in Yunnan

At a CPAFFC ceremony on August 30， Secours Populaire Francais（SPF） and the Air France Foundation donated 20，000 euros to Basa Middle School of Hekou County， Yunnan Province to buy a school bus. SPF President Julien Laupretre， Li Jianping， Vice President of the CPAFFC， Zhou Hong， President of the Yunnan Provincial People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries， were among those attending the ceremony.

Li Jianping said the donation again

showed the deep friendship for the Chinese people held by the French people and SPF， and the cooperation between the CPAFFC and SPF.

In May 2012， a SPF delegation went on an inspection tour of Basa Middle School at the invitation of the CPAFFC， leading to the decision to provide funds for a school bus. Despite an economic downturn in France， SPF stuck to its commitment； overcoming difficulties， it raised enough money for one bus and promised to donate another to the school later.

Since 2007， SPF， through the CPAFFC， has made donations to projects including construction of Friendship Water Cellars in Zhaona Village of Tianshui City， Gansu Province； emergency aid to the Wenchuan earthquakehit area in Sichuan Province； a multimedia library in Mengjia School of Deyang City in Sichuan Province； and a music classroom in the teaching complex of Naqin Primary School of Beidou Township， Taishan City， Guangdong Province.

This demonstrates SPF’s international humanitarianism and helps the cause of friendship between the people of China and France.

At the ceremony， both sides pledged to use the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations in 2014 to further cooperate. SPF President Laupretre informed the Chinese side of a large-scale activity “World Children are one family” it would organize in 2015 for its 70th anniversary and hoped the CPAFFC would participate. Li Jianping gave a positive response.