Description: The Ida Pruitt Memorial Scholorship Project is a means to fund education for high school girls living in the remote, impoverished province of Gansu, China. The project helps the girls remain in thier home communities.
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"Hand and brain together create and analyze." This was Rewi Alley's philosophy when he founded the Shandan Bailie School in 1944. It remains the core concept at the school today.
Ida Pruitt and Rewi Alley met in the late 1930s. Ida was instrumental in acquiring funding (via Indusco) for Rewi's cooperatives as well as the original Shandan Bailie school. Read more about Ida Pruitt. Read Articles about Shandon Balilie Shool