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各位热心的同事和朋友：

看看，我们捐建的村小已经初现雏形了:)，这是我们在村小施工当地的监督方王校长寄来的最新照片。

• 在建工地
  • 如照片所示，村小主体工程完成四分之三，砖墙接近完成。
  • 由于四川近来阴雨连绵，工地建设进展不如预想顺利。不过经再三确认，工程队保证今夏九月前竣工以确保下学期投入使用。
• 后续计划
  • 在村小主体工程完成验收后，我会联系明日中华教育基金会汇给王校长五万元人民币，由王校长分批付给施工方。
  • 大家可能注意到，我们在募捐倡议书里提过，准备在学校的介绍铭牌刻上捐款达到或超过1000元（或200美元）的热心朋友的名字。随着学校的建设进展，现在需要征集捐的款达到或超过1000元（或200美元）的捐助人对此的意愿以及镌刻的姓名（比如以您可爱女儿的名义）。稍后我将以邮件单独联系每个捐款人以确定姓名，请于6月30日之前回复。
  • 微软亚太研发集团关于公益慈善活动的七月初通讯，将会介绍这一项目，这是公司其他同事对于我们这一努力的认可，到时大家可以骄傲地向家人、朋友和其他同事展示宣传。感谢Jane Zheng的辛勤工作和对于项目的支持。
  • 提议原计划七月组织的项目讨论会延迟到八月底九月初，讨论大家关心的话题，包括第二阶段募捐、捐款使用、实地考察和支教安排。原因如下：
    • 不少同事安排在七月份休假，所以在七月份组织项目讨论会和募捐的效果可能会不够理想。
    • 人力资源部将在九月初组织一次微软上海园区范围的爱心拍卖/义卖活动，形式与去年STBC为地震组织的爱心拍卖/义卖相似，我正与组织者协商争取将此项目作为受益项目。在此之前安排一次项目讨论会，有利于我们在爱心拍卖/义卖活动中更好地展示项目，争取人气，招募更多九月份去村小实地考察和志愿支教的朋友。

以前的项目进度报告，您可以在此找到：http://sharepointasia/sites/SichuanSchool（公司内网）或http://blogs.technet.com/chinahpc/（外部网站）。如果您有任何建议和意见，请联系我。

谢谢!

Hi, dear warmhearted colleagues and friends:

Look, you can see the rough shape of our village school now! J The photos are sent by Mr. Wang, the local supervisor for the school construction:

• Construction
  • As shown in photos, ¾ of the main framework has been completed. The brick walls have almost been done.
  • The progress is a little bit slower than expected because there were many rainy days there. But I double checked with Mr. Wang that the construction team promises to complete the school construction before this September so that it can be used of the coming semester.
• Next Step
  • After main framework is finished and checked, I will contact CTEF to send another 50K RMB to Mr. Wang, and then Mr. Wang will give it to construction team in different batches.
  • As you known, the “Call for Donation” letter mentioned that we plan to make a plaque listing the donor names above $200 (or 1000 RMB). Along with the school building process, now we’d like to check whether and whose name you wish to put on the plaque for yourself, e.g. it can be in the name of your lovely daughter. Later on I will send email to each eligible donor separately to confirm the name. Please reply before the end of June.
  • Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D group will have a charity focus newsletter at the beginning of the coming July, introducing this project. This is truly a recognition from other colleague for our effort. Please feel free to share the story with your family members, friends and other colleagues with proud! And thanks to Jane Zheng’s hard work on this and support for our project.
  • Propose to postpone the “July” project meeting to the end of August, discussing all topics interesting to you, such as fund raising, donation usage, school visit and volunteering teaching arrangement. The reasons behind this change are:
    • Some colleagues have arranged July as vacation time, so the meeting and the 2^nd milestone of “call for donation” might not go as well as wished.
    • HR department is planning a charity auction event on early September, across all groups in Microsoft Shanghai campus. It will be pretty much like the one we had for earthquake last year in STBC. I’m discussing with the event organizer, and working on making our project as the target beneficiary. If scheduling a project discussion meeting right before that, it will help us prepare well to showcase the project, earn more eyeball and potentially recruit more friends for the school visiting and volunteering teaching on September.

You can find all previous status email on http://sharepointasia/sites/SichuanSchool (Internal) or http://blogs.technet.com/chinahpc (external). Feel free to contact me if you have concerns, suggestions or questions.

Thanks.