Community Development

Developing Community Facilities, and Building Up Bridges of Love

Fountainhead Association, a Christian charity organization registered in Hong Kong, aims at sharing the love of Jesus Christ in China by working with local Christian groups in community development, on which bridges of love can be built, and through which the needs of the minority and the neglected can be met.

 

 

Excelling in creative and flexible strategies, FHA’s ministries are diversified, with the aim of providing relief for the poor, improving the lives of the neglected, and supporting various Christian groups through dynamic reallocation of resources. Our ministries are target-group-oriented, which is the aptest response to the most needed, and have a wide range of coverage, ranging from community development, scholarship to medical service. Now, projects such as scholarship and orphanage have become our standing ministries that keep on providing long-term care and protection for the poor as well as helpless children.

 

With the rise of natural disasters hitting China in recent years, and the poor areas lacking clean drinking water, Fountainhead has been increasing her relief efforts in providing all-rounded aid so that more victims can experience the great love of Christ.

 

Fountainhead was involved in the following community development projects:

 

Woolen Sweater Donation

People living in remote mountain areas, especially the ethnic minorities, are relatively poor. FHA not only supports students studying at schools, but also, with the help of some garment factories, donates woolen sweaters to them in winter so that they can enjoy a warm winter and feel the warmth from people from afar.

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Disaster Relief

China has a vast and diverse land, and has experienced a number of natural disasters in recent years such as earthquakes, snow hazards, droughts, flood, just to name a few. With God’s love, FHA has made her every effort to raise funds for the relief of the victims the time when our fellow people are in deep hardship, giving them a ray of hope. Other relief projects are such as breeding goats, building new houses … Etc.

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Construction of Water- and Power-Supply Facilities

Water and electricity are basic needs of lives. People living in mountain areas rely on an ample water source to irrigate their farmlands and to drink, and on a stable power source for lighting and exchange of information with others. To provide water and power facilities means to improve people’s basic living conditions: income, education, and medical network. In view of this, FHA has built some water- and power-supply facilities for various mountain villages to provide them with the basic living conditions.

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Road Construction

In China, a wide paved road is considered luxurious by people living in mountain areas. FHA has built a 7 km long motor road and three bridges to replace a 49 km rolling and winding dirt road, shortening the distance between three different counties by seven times, and virtually breaking down geo-barriers among them. We hope that the new road not only improves communications among areas, but also shares their warm hearts among people.

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English and Computer Training Programs

Social service is also one of those areas that FHA cares most. Since so many young people are willing to study in order to upgrade themselves, FHA has built a social service center to provide them with English and computer training.
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Construction of Marsh Gas Tanks for Cooking and Lighting

FHA has built marsh gas tanks for the poor villages to provide them with combustible marsh gas, or methane, formed by decayed human and animal wastes. This project has not only improved the living condition of the local people, but it has also helped to conserve trees from being cut down for firewood, and to provide organic fertilizer for farmland, fuel for cooking and lighting as well as a cleaner environment to live in.

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CONSTRUCTION of a Teachers’ Dormitory and a Teaching Complex

FHA cares about education, hoping that all students, regardless of their family background, rich or poor, should have equal rights to education. Therefore, FHA has been grasping every single chance to raise funds for constructing schools, dormitories as such in expectation of providing more educational opportunities for students from poor areas.

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In some poverty-stricken areas of China, medical and health care service is greatly affected by the acute and chronic shortage of professional medical doctors and medical facilities.  In view of this, Fountainhead has carried out the following projects such that immediate aid can be aptly provided.

Construction of Health Center and Medical Clinic

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Assist and train local doctors

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Donation of medicines and medical equipment

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