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ON Helps to
Alleviate Poverty with
Hope for Pearl Program

For the first time, 100% of its 30 outstanding Hope for Pear program is limited to three years,
Pearl students have passed the admission exam mainly to subsidize poor high school students for a
for prestigious universities. three years of study and their living expenses. Until
now, DAHON Group has supported three rounds
For the past seven years, Dr. David Hon a of Hope for Pear program, funding 193 poor high
long time member of the Board of Governors school students from Helong and Baishan of Jilin
of AmCham South China and staff from the Province and Golmud of Qinghai Province.
DAHON Group have supported Zhejiang Xinhua
Compassion Education Foundation (“XHEF” Some of these Pearl students have already
in short), a worthy local charity that helps graduated from college. Among them are graduate
impoverished students by covering the cost of their students from California Institute of Technology
education and accommodation. In 2021, DAHON’s and outstanding students from major Chinese
Shenzhen headquarters announced the exciting universities. Once they start work in society, they
news that 30 Pearl students from the Second shine like pearls.
Middle School of Geermu City, Qinghai Province, a
partner school of the Hope for Pear Program, were From product invention to a socio-environmental
sponsored by DAHON Group and all successfully legacy, Dr. Hon has been dedicated to the research
enrolled into famous universities. This is the first and development of folding bicycles for nearly
time in seven years since DAHON participated in 40 years, extending the mission and sense of
this scheme that all its Pearl students have been responsibility of green travel to public welfare.
accepted into prestigious universities. To continue
to motivate the students DAHON has decided to In the future, Dr. Hon, as one of the important
donate 50% more than previous years. donors of the Pearl class scheme, will lead the
DAHON Group to play an active role in helping
Dr. David Hon, Chairman of DAHON Group, and poverty alleviation, promoting education
his staff, have committed to charity and public development, supporting youth growth and
welfare since they joined this project in 2014. The leading social welfare.

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