The Chinese Red Cross Foundation (CRCF) has recently launched a public fund benefiting 80 schools in 10 cities across Shanxi province.

The fund was initiated in Dongde School, Fangshan county on May 30, with some 600 students receiving books and stationery worth more than 30,000 yuan ($4,680) from CRCF.

Shanxi Red Cross Foundation also donated supplies necessary for life and study worth 10,000 yuan to the school during the ceremony.

Yang Hongying, a domestic writer of children’s literature and a reading tutor at CRCF's public fund, gave a reading and writing lesson to students at the event.