Night with Smiling Library

Someone tell me :
Do the chinese government not allow any voluntary help to chinese citziens in need of help ?
Or only allow this through governmental controlled organisations ?

Thanks for your kind reply :-)

This is a constant problem, one that I've run into, and I can emphathize with you on it. There are a lot of people who are trying to do good in China, doing things that the government should encourage or be doing itself. But because the system is top down in nature, the government tells the charitable organizations what to do and those organizations have little power to lobby the government. As I talked about in a previous comment, it takes individuals willing to do things on their own, but then they run into potential illegality issues. Its constant problem to consider bringing a group to the attention to the government, because you don't know whether you can find a bureaucrat who will look upon you kindly or one that will frown on what you're doing and stop you completely. What your friends are doing is great and I am certainly willing to do what I can to help out a good cause like this.

Dear Mr. Wang,

I believe that what you are doing is very important! All children deserve the chance to have access to books. It's sad to think that very poor children are without one of the wonders of childhood. I don't know who I would be today without the books of my youth. They inspired me, expanded my imagination, and taught me very important lessons about morality.
I believe the Chinese government will loosen it's attitudes around charity organizations. Let's hope so! As China's infrastrucutre strengthens, and the richer get richer and the poorer get poorer, China will need it's own people to unite and help one another...not only rely on outside sources to support the poor....
So, once again, good for you for wanting to help. I admire you and would like to do something similiar one day :-)

Amanda

Let me make it clearer about the charity part. No one is holding back people to do good thing, as long as MONEY is not involved, or to be more exactly, if others money is not involved. For Smiling Library, many people want to donate money to help, and this brings trouble. It is not a company, and not an individual either. It must be some form of organization to take care of the money to prevent it from abuse or corruption. Instead of setup a way to prevent, now the law does not allow charity funding, so far as I know. International NGO meeting was just held in Beijing and I guess something will be worked out on this gray area soon.

1.The name should be Smiling Library. So the link is www.smilinglibrary.org.

2.Wang's intelligence is very important to SL's future.

3.After 1989, it's very hard to turn to be a new legal NGO.

But things have to change. Hundreds of little groups are growing up silently. Their voices can't be omitted any more. NGOs are shown to be part of the social life. They offer people chance of different choices. That's why NGO's future is promising in China. Although we've got long way to go, because of the known reasons.

During the last two years, some new politics show us a promising future-- With enough money support and a government department's background, we can apply for a legal identity.

We've got no successful ancestors.We've got no experiences. I'm worried about this but very proud.

Ops. Modified, breezee.

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God bless you!
We foreigners would very much like to do something for the Chinese children.
Let us know how we can help!