指通过社会集资和捐款等手段救助贫困地区失学儿童重返校园的一种措施和活动。中国青少年发展基金会于1989年10月30日建立“救助贫困地区失学少年基金”，希望工程就此实施Project Hope; Chinese public service project which helps poor children to get an education and improves educational facilities and teaching quality in poorer regions

• 实施希望工程

  implement Project Hope

• 希望工程已筹集资金６.９亿元人民币。

  Project Hope has already raised 690 million yuan.

• 100名大学生成立了“中国希望工程贫困地区百县考察团”。

  A hundred university students have established the "China Project Hope Poor Area Hundred County Investigation Team"

• 看来希望工程急需延伸，希望工程也正在延伸。

  It looks as if Project Hope urgently needs to extend, and that it is indeed extending.