Public welfare project of the China Children and Teenagers' Fund (CCTF) won the China Charity Award at a ceremony in Beijing on September 5.

The China Charity Award was set up by the Ministry of Civil Affairs in 2005. It is the highest State-level award for charitable undertakings.

The award-winning project of the CCTF is the Spring Bud Companionship.

Photo shows the certificate of honor and trophy won by the Spring Bud Companionship project at the awards ceremony of the 12th China Charity Awards in Beijing on September 5. [CCTF]

The Spring Bud Companionship project was launched by the CCTF in 2017. It is designed to provide the high school Spring Bud girls with companionship services like campus visit, camp activities and letter exchanges and focus its assistance through school empowerment, social caring, family support and the emphasis on personal development. The objective is to help them acquire a deeper understanding of themselves and the society, grow up healthy, and acquire self-respect, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement.

By the end of August, the project had provided financial assistance and other forms of aid to 48,000 Spring Bud girls in 14 provincial regions across the country and offered 192,000 girls companionship services besides helping them complete the high school studies.