Overseas China Education Foundation (OCEF) recently formally set up a BBS, the
Rainbow Forum, at OCEF's Website http://www.soscef.org on the day of the Chinese New Year (2/1/03). The directly web address of this BBS is http://www.soscef.org/cgi/lb5000/forums.cgi?forum=2 .
The purposes for setting up this BBS are : (1) provide a place for
all people who care about helping needy children and China's
rural areas for their basic education to discuss all kind of education related issues, (2) attract more volunteers and donors to join OCEF's meaningful cause of helping needy children in China, and
(3) open a window for receiving good suggestions and comments from public to improve OCEF's work.

Welcome all of you to visit our BBS and participate in discussion. You can submit message with or without registration at the BBS.

Now many interesting topics are under discussion there. To enter
OCEF's Rainbow Forum, just visit http://www.soscef.org and then click "Rainbow Forum" button.

Hope to meet you at OCEF's BBS. Thank you for your attention.

Gan Liang
President of OCEF

----------------Introduction of OCEF --------------------
OCEF is a non-profit charity organization registered in the State of Texas and granted being a tax exempt 501 (c ) (3) organization by Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Its sole mission is to help less-privileged children in rural areas of China finish education up to 9th grade. Registered in California in 1992 with the original name of SOS China Education Fund, OCEF has helped more than 3000 children so far in realizing their simple dream of going to school. Our vision is to increase the number of students by 25% each year..
Due to social and historical reasons, millions of school-age children in China's vast rural areas are still struggling for a chance to receive basic education. Local government and parents are too poor to help. Your care and generosity will be the only means that these children will have to get the basic reading and writing skills, skills they need to push themselves out of
ignorance and poverty. A donation of US$40 will help one of them to stay in
school for one year.
Characteristics: All donation from the public is used to help needy children; the operation cost of the Foundation is provided by special donations made by our Board members and Trustees. Supporting money is sent to each supported school directly from OCEF and delivered to students at an open conference attended and monitored by OCEF's volunteer coordinators in China.