Chao Foundation subsidiary TFISH's partner One Heart Worldwide will be holding a gala this May! They have asked us to spread the word and we are happy to support such a great cause. This event is in celebration of mother's day, to celebrate those who risk death in order to give life. To continue our partnership for the second year, Chao Foundation will match live donations throughout the gala up to $500 each individual (max $25,000 matching grant).

You can purchase tickets to the event here: http://tracking.etapestry.com/t/28237551/735500568/55030938/0/

One Heart is thrilled to welcome Carrie-Anne Moss as the Master of Ceremonies for this year’s Grateful Heart Gala. Moss is a Canadian actress, most known for her role as “Trinity” in The Matrix Trilogy.  She boasts many impressive acting credits, including starring in the Oscar-nominated Chocolat and earning an Independent Spirit Award for her performance opposite Guy Pearce in Memento.Most recently, Carrie-Anne starred in Paul W.S. Anderson’s Pompeii, out earlier this year.  Married to Steven Roy, the couple has two sons and one daughter together.  

About One Heart: One Heart's life-saving programs were initially established in the late 1990’s in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Over the last decade, they have been able to decrease unattended home births from 85% to 20%, mostly by ensuring the presence of a skilled attendant at delivery. Based on their experience, One Heart developed an effective, replicable, and sustainable model to reduce preventable deaths related to pregnancy and delivery among vulnerable rural populations. They work with local communities and local health providers to develop a culturally appropriate Network of Safety around mothers and infants. Through teaching good practices and distributing essential supplies, One Heart ensures that mothers survive delivery and their infants enjoy the first months of life. 

Through the “Little Red Scarf” plan, Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation, founded by high tech entrepreneur Ping Chao and his wife Amy Chao (Li Hongli), helps children living with congenital heart disease in the Province of Gansu. Recently, the foundation hosted a charity art show with artist He Yuanming to help seven-year-old child “Hongyan (alias)” have enough money to undergo surgery for congenital heart disease. Hongyan will be the 1,000th child helped by Little Red Scarf. The foundation announced on the 18th that Hongyan’s surgery was successful and that surprisingly, she could already walk only a few days after the surgery. In the future, the foundation will continue this support plan to “not only help the sick children stand up again, but also to help their impoverished families rise once more.”

Hongyan is from rural Gansu and suffers from the most severe form of congenital heart disease. Because of a lack of oxygen, her fingers are bent and her entire body is tinted purple. She also cannot walk and can only stand for a few minutes, spending most of her time squatting or being carried around by her family. Her father already passed away and her family lives in poverty. She was also projected to have a hard time recovering from the surgery. The incredible and complete success of her surgery is also a milestone for the Foundation. 

Mr. Chao points out that because Hongyan could scarcely stand before the surgery, everyone was expecting that she would need a period of recovery time before she can walk. No one expected that she was able to walk immediately after the surgery. The foundation’s representatives in Gansu immediately sent a video of her walk, making everyone enthusiastic and proud at the same time of her progress. Mr. Chao says, in the future the foundation will continue to help children with congenital heart disease both by funding their surgeries and through the “Care Plan” that helps their families transcend poverty.

Mr. Chao explains that after reaching the milestone of helping the 1,000th child, the foundation will reach even poorer rural areas to find sick children who are also most in need. They will also initiate the Care Plan to support non-medical needs of the families. For example, the foundation will loan money to Hongyan’s family to help them purchase an ewe so they can start a small business, which will alleviate their poverty.

A charity art exhibit, “Horses” by He Yuanming, is scheduled this weekend at Los Altos Youth Center, 1 N. San Antonio Road. Donations help Little Red Scarf sponsor the 1000th child suffering from congenital heart disease in China's poor, rural Gansu Province.

Hongyan, a 7-year-old girl, is suffering from the most severe type of the disease (Tetralogy of Fallot). The Los Altos-based Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation, which is sponsoring the exhibit, notes that even donations of $10 "will go a long way towards helping her receive this life saving surgery."

The distinguished artist donated eight paintings to the cause. According to Beijing Poly International Auction prices, smaller paintings are worth about $4,000 and larger paintings are worth around $30,000, with an estimated total of $80,000.

The exhibit times are 2:30-5:30 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Also featured is a live demo painting by He Yuanming, wishing all a prosperous Year of the Horse. An opening reception is scheduled Saturday.

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Original Article: http://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/community/46951-exhibit-to-help-pay-for-heart-surgery

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Charity Art Show “Horses” by He Yuanming: Donations Help Little Red Scarf Sponsor the 1000th Child suffering from Congenital Heart Disease in Poor Rural Gansu Province

Distinguished artist, He Yuanming, donated a total of eight paintings to help Little Red Scarf sponsor their 1000th surgery for Hongyan. This includes two 4.5 ft x 2.2 ft large pieces and six 2.2 ft x 1.5 ft smaller pieces. According to Beijing Poly International Auction prices, smaller paintings are worth about $ 4,000 and larger paintings are worth around $30,000, estimating a total of $80,000 for 8 paintings.

Time:  March 8, 2014 (Saturday) 2:30-5:30 pm
                March 9, 2014 (Sunday) 12:00-5:30 pm

Location: Los Altos Youth Center
                  1 North San Antonio Rd
                  Los Altos CA 94022

Live demo painting by He Yuanming, wishing everyone a prosperous Year of the Horse!
Saturday: Opening Reception
Sunday: Donation of work to help the Little Red Scarf’s 1000th child suffering from congenital heart disease in Gansu Province

Sponsored by the Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation

[記者李榮／洛斯阿圖報導] 畫家何遠鳴27日宣布，將捐贈八幅畫作給趙修平夫婦基金會（Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation），救助甘肅省貧困先天性心臟病兒。由科技人趙修平與太太李鴻麗創立的基金會，至今已資助900多位先天性心臟病童的醫藥費，這次義賣畫所得，將支付七歲病童「紅艷（化名）」的醫藥費，而她也是基金會贊助的第1000位病童。

原籍四川的何遠鳴，是中國人民對外友好協會特聘畫家，曾獲第一屆四川省優秀文藝創作獎。早期他喜歡畫牛，旅美後轉畫馬，所畫的馬兒奔放有力，現在香港Ritz-Carlton酒店大堂天花板上的巨型畫作就是他的作品「天馬行空」。

何遠鳴捐畫共8幅，包括2張136公分x68公分大型作品，以及6張68公分x45公分小型作品。依照北京保利拍賣價格，小張作品價值約4000美元、大張畫作3萬美元，8幅總價約8萬美元。何遠鳴3月初在洛斯阿圖舉行作品捐贈展。

贊助展覽的趙修平曾創辦Caden ce等三家公司。投身病童慈善，是趙修平一有次在媒體上看到一位甘肅媽媽帶著先天性心臟病的小孩到美國求醫，發現甘肅先心病狀況普遍，因此決定投身協助病童的「小紅巾」計畫。加上基金會其他慈善項目，每年預算為100到200萬美元，病童的醫療費用不一，平均每人為1萬美元。

趙修平說，先心病童若不治療恐活不過十歲，甘肅當地病童比例高於其他地方，至今已有900多人透過基金會幫助進行手術，基金會也雇用四位員工處理庶務。

何遠鳴贊助的畫作將資助第1000名女病童「紅艷」。基金會共同創辦人李鴻麗介紹，七歲的紅艷來自甘肅農村，年幼喪父，患有先心病中最嚴重的一種，因缺氧造成手指扭曲，全身發紫，不能走路，只能站三、五分鐘，泰半都蹲著，或由家人輪流背著。

紅艷的母親沒有足夠的錢手術，甚至告訴工作人員她願嫁給任何能支付女兒手術費的人。經基金會審查，紅艷將是小紅巾資助的第1000個孩子，而受惠人數將超過四位數，是基金會的里程碑。

捐贈展時間：3月8日（周六）下午2時30分至5 時30分。3月9日（周日）中午12時至下午5時30分。地點：Los Altos Youth Center（1 N San Antonio Rd, Los Altos）。 

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The Chao Foundation would like to wish you a happy and healthy year of the horse! Thank you for all of your help in 2013. To celebrate the new year, Transparent Fish Fund (a subsidiary of the Chao Foundation) has released their 2013 Annual Report at report.tfishfund.org !

Every year, TFISH maintains its commitment to transparency by releasing a book for their donors. The donor book is filled with stories, statistics and financial reports from their partners and members. We hope you'll take a look and learn how we've made an impact this year, none of which we could have done without your help!

Click the image below to proceed to the online donor book.

In 2009, the Chao Foundation gave a grant to the Rural Education Action Program (REAP) at Stanford University. REAP was founded in order to help children in rural China overcome the barriers they face in receiving a proper education. REAP is working to accomplish this goal by conducting experiment based research that shapes policies for improving the accessibility and quality of rural education in China. Now we would like to share with you some of REAP's accomplishments since they received the Chao Foundation Grant.

This year, REAP has:
• Distributed 400,000 vitamin packets to families with babies at risk for nutritional deficiencies.
• Screened 30,000 children for vision problems and passed out 8,000 pairs of glasses to nearsighted students.
• Provided counseling programs to more than 4,500 students in rural China.
• Deployed a team of undercover "patients" to visit 48 rural clinicians and measure the quality of health care that they received.
• Created the first-ever standardized evaluation tools for 180 vocational school programs.
• Handed out $53,000 in financial aid to the poorest rural students in China to attend high school.
• Tracked down 2,000 rural babies and tested their physical and cognitive development. 
• Treated 2,000 children for intestinal worms.
• Initiated teacher performance pay programs for teachers of 5,000 students in rural China.
• Launched a prefecture-wide pilot for computer assisted learning in Qinghai Province. 

Through extensive research, REAP has learned that: 
• Rural students are up to 20 times less likely than their urban counterparts to attend elite colleges.
• China's first ever life counseling curriculum for rural schools, developed by REAP, reduces the middle school drop out rate by 25%.
• 55% of rural babies are anemic, and 85% are suffering from cognitive or motor delays.
• 40% of rural primary school children are infected with intestinal worms, and this infection is associated with worse performance on cognitive tests. 
• Having anemic students in class leads to worse academic performance even among the non-anemic students in the same class.
• Only 1 in 6 rural/migrant children with correctable vision problems in China has glasses.
• Over an academic year, a nearsighted child that wears glasses learns roughly double what they would without glasses.
• Vocational schools fail to teach students any practical skills and even make them forget basic math skills they originally had. 

We look forward to seeing what REAP can accomplish in the years ahead and we are proud to have been a contributor to their success!

(Data from the REAP 2013 December newsletter)

A Chao Foundation partner, Transparent Fish Fund, participated in the Los Altos Arts Festival this past weekend. TFish ran a 'color a fish' campaign to draw attention to transparency and East Asian NGOs. For every fish colored at the booth the Chao Foundation donated $1 to one of Transparent Fish Fund's partners. By the end of the festival 363 fish were colored and $363 was donated to Sahaya International, O'Keefe and Bayshore Christian Ministries!

Taiwan Root, one of the Chao Foundation partners, is pleased to announce that they will be bringing their medical mission to Cambodia next week!

Taiwan Root sets up temporary medical service clinics in different mountain areas of Taiwan and in developing nations. Doctors, dentists, and volunteers provide free medical care as well as educational health material to the local population. Taiwan Root works to improve the local communities’ current condition and offers resources for developing self-reliant health care systems.

On international medical service trips, TRMPC extends medical services to the most needy populations, conducts research on tropical diseases and HIV/AIDS, and promotes community-based health education. Check out their work here: http://www.taiwanroot.org/index.php

We are proud to introduce the new East Villagers Service Scholars!

We want to welcome Angela The, Angie Nguyen, Lauren Kam, Alvina Zou, Bryant Vergara, Gloria Lin, Abhishek Mangla, Katie Lan, Allison Sun, and Pat Tang to the East Villagers family.

You can learn more about each of our interns here: http://www.servicescholar.com/current-interns.html

The EV Service Scholars Internship is designed to foster a proactive spirit of philanthropy among high school and college students. The goal of the internship is to inspire students to become innovative leaders who pursue social justice within and beyond their communities.

You can learn more about their activities here: http://www.servicescholar.com/