Programs include the donation of medical equipment and medicine to hospitals and other clinical institutions in indigent areas, the China Charity Cancer Rehabilitation Program and the Fund for Children with Leukemia, and help for those families with financial problems due to medical needs.
Smile Train
The Smile Train is a non-profit charity organization dedicated to providing surgical corrections for cleft lip and palate sufferers to give them a chance for normal social appearance and development. It was launched and registered in United States by Chinese-American Charles B. Wang in 1999 and has benefited thousands of children and adults.
The Smile Train is committed to:
- Providing free cleft surgery for millions of poor children,
- Improving the effectiveness of doctors in local clinics and hospitals, and
- Providing funding for further research of cleft lip and palate conditions.
The ultimate goal of organization is to eradicate the problem of clefts.
A partnership between the China Charity Federation (CCF) and The Smile Train was formed in early 1999, working to greatly increase the reach of rectification programs for our poor young cleft lip and palate sufferers. The Smile Train supplies the funding for CCF to accomplish this. Over the years, the program has developed into a national wide project, with support from charitable institutions, civil administrations and medical institutions. It operates in over 140 hospitals in 30 different provinces, a major increase from the initial program of four hospitals in four provinces. Over 80,000 patients have received the initial treatments. This program not only serves children in need, but has also benefited many adults living in poverty stricken areas. This project was given the China Beneficence Award from the Central Government Civil Administration for its great contribution to so many with broad coverage and standard operating procedures producing a remarkable social benefit.
To ensure the continued effectiveness of this program, CCF has established a supervisory group, consisting of a team of famous cheilopalatognathus experts. Their major tasks include: inspecting the specified hospitals, training the surgeons, tracking the patients and evaluating the results, and monitoring the safety in the procedures.
Glivec International Patient Assistance Project (GIPAP™)
The Glivec International Patient Assistance Project was officially started in China on September, 2003 by CCF, the Tumor Drug Department of Novart and the Max Foundation. The objectives of the Project are to provide free medicines to all adult patients who are Philadelphia chromosome-positive in the blastic phase, accelerated phase or the chronic phase because of the failure of interferon therapy, and patients who are C-Kit positive or have metastasized malignant gastrointestinal tumors. Thus preventing delay in treatment for economic reasons.
Because of China's vast territory, large population, and the complexity of the basic medical care system, the implementation of Glivec International Patient Assistance project will have a long-term and gradual, but steady expansion in China.
Medical Assistance Projects
In Cooperation with Kunming Pharmaceutical Group, CCF provided "zhuoqinuo" brand diabetes medicines, valued $230,770.00, to impoverished families in Hebei, Guizhou and Gansu Provinces. These families would have been otherwise unable to treat their diabetes. In May, 2006, CCF and South Korean World Charity Federation South Korean were able to send eye surgeons to Jiaozhou City, Shandong province to perform cataract operations on sixty poor patients.
At the end of 2005, the Operation Blessing China, the European Union Chamber of Commerce and CCF jointly held a Charity Gala Dinner “Touch an Orphan’s Life” and raised nearly $125,000.00. In 2006, this donation enabled the rehabilitation for more than 40 children and the training of nursing staff for 36 deaf-mute children in orphanages. On December 8, 2006, CCF once again held a Charity Dinner with the EU Chamber of Commerce and raised an additional $195,000.00 for medical assistance work in orphanages.
Sunshine Charitable Medical Relief ProjectThe Sunshine Charitable Medical Relief Project was launched by CCF and the Tianli Technology Ltd Beijing Branch. It has raised more than $4,000,000.00 for medical equipment, which as been distributed to more than 20 provinces and regions throughout the country. This equipment has relieved the shortage of medical equipment in more than 100 institutions, special care hospitals and primary health agencies in disaster and poverty areas.
AIDS Prevention Education Project
The primary goals of the AIDS Prevention Education Project for Chinese Youth (hereafter as APEPCY) are to bring into full play community charitable mechanisms, the educational system, and the local professional organizations. APEPCY seeks to mobilize the whole society to coordinate the resources and raise funds to introduce AIDS prevention methods to ten thousand higher educational institutions, secondary vocational schools and ordinary middle schools. This is done by compiling textbooks and relevant reading materials, training teachers, and guiding the classroom or thematic approach activities. Large-scale and systematic AIDS prevention and treatment education programs aid children with AIDS and AIDS orphans. They enable young people to gain AIDS awareness and sound sexual health education.
The APEPCY’s support project is one of the key research topics in the Chinese Education Society’s "11th Five-Year" plan. It is referred to as “The applied research program for AIDS prevention and sexual health education with film classes” (abbreviated as: AIDS and sex education film classes).
The APEPCY and its AIDS and sex education film classes project has taken nearly a year to prepare and is being strongly supported by the various sectors of the community. The APEPCY initiation ceremony and the kick-off discussion for AIDS and sex education film classes’ project will be held on December 23, 2007 at the China Science and Technology Hall. The well-known CCTV emcee Bai Yansong has been appointed as Image Ambassador for the APEPCY.




