About us

At the heart of Asia Education Foundation (AEF) lies the belief that education is key to breaking the cycle of poverty. AEF was founded in 2006 and was granted charitable status by the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department in October 2008. It was set up to provide scholarship funds to disadvantaged students to help finance their university tuition fees. For now, our efforts are focused on China, a country where many young outstanding students cannot afford to attend university.

Administrative matters at AEF are run entirely by professionals donating their time free of charge. This means that all the funds donated to AEF reach the selected universities to sponsor individual students.

Mission

Our aim is to improve the lives of talented and hardworking students from unprivileged backgrounds through helping them to afford a tertiary education in China. The option to attend university is often closed to outstanding students, unless they are able to afford the tuition fees. We hope our donations will allow their and their families' dreams of a university education to come true, and help alleviate the hardships suffered by these families.

AEF hopes that the opportunities given to these young adults will instill in them a desire to help others, thus extending the reach of the grant beyond the initial scholarship recipients. To this end, we request that scholarship recipients pledge that they will, upon their graduation, try their very best to donate in a similar way and enable other students with financial difficulties to further their studies by attending university.

Join us to give hope to these young adults of Asia - let's give them a bright future together!

President and Treasurer

Dr. Uther E. Charlton-Stevens

MA(Oxon.), MSc(LSE), DPhil(Oxon.)

Uther grew up in Hong Kong and attended Peak School and Island School before proceeding to Mansfield College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He obtained his Masters degree with distinction in Global History at the Economic History Department of the London School of Economics, before returning to Oxford to complete his PhD at St. Edmund Hall in South Asian History. Uther has been a Guest Teacher at the London School of Economics and a Senior Lecturer of Global Economic History at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Uther speaks Mandarin Chinese and Russian and has given lectures and seminars in India, China, Russia, Britain and Australia. He has a passionate interest in Asia and Asiatic Russia, and is a member of the Oriental Club and the Royal Society for Asian Affairs in London. He is committed to supporting the education of others and to helping disadvantaged communities of Asia.

Support

Our special thanks goes to：
Jeremy Scott