Hometown Education Foundation

The Hometown Education Foundation (HEF) is a charitable organization, established by Tonghai Yang , to financially help the poorest students of Ningguo county and allow them to continue their elementary to high school education. All donations are tax deductible in the United States and go directly to help the needy students as all overhead expenses will be paid for by Dr. Yang. We will send you a receipt for tax purposes. HEF is run entirely by a group of volunteers willing to dedicate their time to the organization for the benefit of the needy children of Ningguo County.

The founder and director, Dr. Tonghai Yang, is a full professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and was born in Bao Mei Village, Ningguo County, Anhui Province, China in 1963. He was a middle school teacher for more than three years at Ningguo County from Jan. 1981 to July 1984. He was heartbroken to hear that the poorest students dropped out of school due to extreme financial difficulty, sometimes resulting from family tragedy. He established HEF to seek your donations to help the needy students in his hometown to finish the most basic education we take for granted.

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