Amity Foundation Wins Poverty Eradication Award

by Global Ministries | published on Oct 10, 2014

Global Ministries’ Partner Amity Foundation receives Poverty Eradication Award.

The Amity Foundation proudly announces that it received the second China Poverty Eradication Award in the “organization” category. This prestigious award is given by the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA) to recognize “achievements in benefiting the poor”. The award presentation ceremony was held in Beijing on 17 October and presided over by Vice Premier Hui Liangyu. Mr. Qiu Zhonghui, the General Secretary received the award on behalf of Amity and gave an acceptance speech.

“This prestigious award is an affirmation of the poverty alleviation work we have done for 21 years,” Amity General Secretary Qiu Zhonghui said in his acceptance speech. At the same time it would open a new chapter in Amity’s effort to spread compassion and wealth in people’s lives, Mr. Qiu said.

The CFPA is a nongovernmental organization, established in 1989, which strives to alleviate poverty and empower China’s poor. Announcing the award, the CFPA highlighted Amity’s “clear aims, pioneering spirit, high-quality corporate governance, professionalism, high reputation and the strong impact of its work”.

The Amity Foundation is an independent Chinese voluntary organisation. It was created in 1985 on the initiative of Chinese Christians to promote education, social services, health, and rural development from China’s coastal provinces in the east to the less well developed areas of the west.

Abiding by the principle of mutual respect in faith, Amity builds friendship with people at home and abroad. Through the promotion of holistic development and public welfare, Amity serves society, benefits the people, and strives to promote world peace.
In this way, Amity contributes to China’s social development and openness to the outside world. It makes Christian involvement and participation in meeting the needs of society more widely known to the Chinese people and serves as a channel for people-to-people contact and the ecumenical sharing of resources.