School social work in post disaster areas: Experience from the hope school project in China

The China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF), China Association of Social Work Education (CASEW), and Hong Kong Keswick Foundation (HKKF) conducted the Hope School Project which raised funds to help the students in the disaster area return to school and provided professional school social work services after the Sichuan earthquake in 2008. This project lasted for three years and gained substantial procedural and empirical evidence on the benefits of disaster relief, post-disaster reconstruction, and school social work services.