Free China Relief Association
| 中華救助總會 | |
Rennie's Mill Middle School prior to its destruction in 1995 built and maintained largely through FCRA funding.
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| Abbreviation | FCRA |
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| Formation | 1949 |
| Founder |
Soong Mei-ling Chen Cheng Hu Shih Ku Cheng-kang Fang Chih |
| Founded at | Taipei, Republic of China |
| Headquarters | 7F No 4 Chung Hsaio W Road, SEC 1, Taipei |
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Honorary Chairman
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Ge Yuqin (葛雨琴) |
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Chairman of the Board
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Zhang Zhengzhong (張正中) |
| Website | www |
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Formerly called
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Free China Relief Association (中國大陸災胞救濟總會) |
The Free China Relief Association (Chinese: 中國大陸災胞救濟總會) is a Non-Governmental Organization headquartered in Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan). The organization specializes in forced migration, refugee assistance and disaster relief.
The Free China Relief Association was founded in 1949 and incorporated on 4 April, year 39 (1950), as the "Chinese Mainland Relief Association" (中國大陸災胞救濟總會), following the defeat and retreat of the Republic of China from the mainland. The Association was tasked with providing assistance to frontline troops, the many refugees fleeing the Mainland after the war, assisting the Nationalist insurgents operating within Mainland China and generally promoting the values of free China on behalf of the ROC.
The articles of association listed 100 people as directors including Ju Zheng (居正), Soong Mei-ling (蔣宋美齡), Ku Cheng-kang (谷正綱), Fu Sinian (傅斯年), Fang Chih (方治), Chen Qitian (陳啓天), Wan Hongtu (萬鴻圖), and Zheng Yanfen (鄭彥棻). An additional 61 people were listed as supervisors including Yu Youren (于右任), Zou Lu (鄒魯), Chiang Monlin (蔣夢麟), Yu Jiaju (余家菊), Chhoà Pôe-hóe, Huang Chaoqin (黃朝琴) and Chen Weiping (陳維屏). The first meeting took place between 12 and 24 April, 1950.
In 1950, with the CCP was strengthening its hold over the former Republic of China. The FCRA conducted hundreds of operations to airdrop 70,000 tons of rice from Taiwan and anti-Communist propaganda leaflets throughout Eastern China. These drops were called "Mainland Disaster Relief Drops From Taiwanese Compatriots" beginning a long history of operations involving supply airdrops by FCRA in Greater China and Southeast Asia.
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