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TEACHER TALENT IN CHINA AFRICA NETPRENEUR WOMEN’S SOCCER IN CHINA

A ten-year program to train and PRIZE INITIATIVE SPONSORS:
develop teachers in rural China. Alipay Foundation,
A total of 100 African entrepreneurs Jack Ma Foundation
FUNDING: with receive $100 million over and Joe Tsai Foundation
$45 MILLION ten years. Nigerian medical supply
startup LifeBank won the top prize A partnership of three foundations
among ten contestants in an award to support the development of
ceremony held in November. women’s soccer in China over ten years.

FUNDING: FUNDING:
$100 MILLION $143 MILLION

AU ST R A L I A

M I D D L E E AST
C H I N A

MA & MORLEY SCHOLARSHIP,
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE

The scholarship is named after
Newcastle resident Australian Ken QUEEN RANIA FOUNDATION
Morley (who died in 2004). Ma first met
Morley in 1980 in Hangzhou, and they Run by Jordan’s Queen Rania, the WETLAND PROTECTION
had a decades-long friendship. The foundation got $3 million to supports
scholarship helps 20 students each year educational initiatives in the Middle East, The funds will go to research and
with expenses, while another 10 get a including Edraak, a free online education protection of the Xixi National
12-day immersion program in China. platform offered by the foundation. Wetland Park in Hangzhou.
FUNDING: FUNDING: FUNDING:
$20 MILLION $3 MILLION $14 MILLION

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