Before the establishment of Rici Foundation, we had made many material donationsand supports. In the process, we found that most of the student assistance projects often focused on children with excellent grades, while those from the bottom of society were often neglected due to poor grades,disabilities and so on and did not have the opportunity to return to school. In order to support these orphaned and disabled teenagersto continue their studies, Rici Foundation launched the “Huixin Student Assistance Project”in 2013. Before the project was launched, the foundation surveyed 29 schools and found that even if these children had the opportunity to return to school,the lack of teachers and backward educational concepts would still be two mountains that children could not overcome on their way to growth.

This can't help but prompt our thoughts: What can Rici truly help them with?

The longer the time, the more we feel that it is necessary to give children the ability to develop themselves in the process of support. Especially the development of the mind, which is crucial. If people can actively look at things and the world, the future will become better. When we change the mental structure of children, it is like giving them a pair of shoes, which can help them go through all the setbacks and difficulties. Every child is a cell of society. The more such children there are, the more hopeful society will be. I also hope to use the platform of Rici Foundation to call on more people to pay attention to the development of the mind and build a better society.

Qu Jiangting, Director general of the RICI Foundation

The Guangdong Rici Foundation was registered and established in December 2013 at theGuangdong Provincial Civil Affairs Department.It is the first charity organization in Chinadedicated to the mental health and happy growth of young children.Based on the theoretical foundations of "positive psychology" and "social-emotional learning (SEL)",it has independently developed localized psychological courses and initiated core projects such as "Flourish Magic School--Rural Children's Psychological Classes" and "Ignite Project--- Rural Children's Psychological Summer Camp".These projects have served over 700,000 children and 5 million person-times, making it the most widely covered and well-known charity organization in the field of child psychology.It has received honors such as "China's Good Charity Platform Quality Charity Product" and "Silver Award in the China Charity Project Competition".The project results have been reported by more than ten mainstreammediaoutlets such as Xinhuanet,China Youth Daily, and Caixin.In 2020, Rici Foundation initiatedthe "Flourish Youth---Peer Psychological Mutual Aid Action in Universities",with "self-care" as the core theory to design roadshows,online check-ins, live classes,and groupactivities,serving over 150,000 college students.

In addition, since 2019, RICI Foundstion [Mental Literacy Institute] has also focused on the construction of adolescent mental health issues,advocating and supporting multiple parties to provide psychological services for children through industry exchanges,scanning reports,training, and open-source toolkits,and collaborating with university scholars to carry out intervention research and academic production in the field of adolescent psychology,promoting the professional development of the issue,and allowing Chinese experience spread to the world.