# BT donates £500,000 to UNICEF schools programme in rural China

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/05/28/bt-donates-500000-unicef-schools-programme-rural-china/
- Published: 2009-05-28T08:23:38+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

BT is donating £500,000 to provide modern technology to schools in poor rural areas
of China to improve access to high quality education. BT’s support of UNICEF’s work
is expected to benefit up to 6,000 students and 1,700 teachers in 40 schools across
four provinces.

 

The initiative is the third phase of BT and UNICEF’s Inspiring Young Minds programme,
a £1.5 million global development partnership designed to bring education, technology
and communication skills to children from disadvantaged backgrounds in South Africa,
Brazil and China.

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Activities supported by [BT](http://www.bt.com/aboutbt) will include establishing
an online learning community to enable teachers to explore information from the 
internet, to learn from each other and to share teaching resources.

 

Since the launch of the partnership in 2007, employee fundraising in BT has contributed
a further £375,000 to UNICEF in addition to the corporate donation of £500,000 per
country.

 

www.unicef.org.uk

 

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