About Us

Project Hope at Cornell is a student organization at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY dedicated to helping raise funds and awareness for improved education in rural China. Our purpose is to provide impoverished school children in rural China with support and funds to attend school and acquire a basic education. To make this possible, we fundraise in the Ithaca and Cornell communities.

We work closely with the China Youth Development Foundation, which uses local connections to help us direct our funding to effective programs and provide us with follow up reports on the students or other projects (i.e. libraries, schools) that we sponsor.

Our Mission

1. To prevent orphaned, single-parent and underprivileged children from dropping out of school due to poverty.
2. To promote awareness and to improve the quality of education for children facing poverty in rural areas of China.

Our History

Project Hope at Cornell was founded in the spring of 2005 by Yuantian Leslie Huang. Since then, the club has grown in size and reach and we continuously strive to be successful in our fundraising and advocacy.

How We Work

Because our resources are finite, we have the following priorities:

• We commit to helping children finish their primary education. This means we will fund the education of the older children first, then younger children as funds become available
• If we fund a child, we will continue to fund him or her to the completion of their education. Thus we will only commit to sponsoring children if our resources allow
• Because giving the gift of education is of paramount importance, we will always fund students first, and only if resources permit, will we do additional things like library building and school renovations​

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Project Hope at Cornell
ProjectHopeatCornell@gmail.com