to help local people eradicate poverty, Cai suddenlyРfound it was something he .really wanted to do and immediately applied. Two months later,РCai became a member of the first group of volunteers in the Poverty Relief Relay Program ,Рand , given a year's leave by pany, went to Jingle County in Shanxi Province with 21Рother members.РThe Poverty Relief Relay Program was launched by the China Young VolunteersРAssociation (CYVA) in order to recruit volunteers from all walks of life to work in poorРareas and share their experience in education , medicine , science and technology. Each groupРof volunteers puts in one year of service.РCYVA was founded in 1994 , aimed at motivating young people to provide voluntaryРservice for the public good. As the First and anization o£its kind in China, it has