China News Service, Xiamen, June 9th (Reporter Yang Fushan) The public fundraising project for the "Love for Xiamen Lights Up Hope" co-sponsored by the Xiamen Nanputuo Temple Charity Association and the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University was officially launched on the 9th. In the form of fundraising, the advantages of charity clubs and hospitals will be used to bring a glimmer of hope to families in trouble.
The first batch of children with leukemia, through in-depth visits to hospitals, families, and doctors, neighborhood committees, and parents of sick children to check the situation, screen out the children in need of help to carry out fundraising. The first online fundraising page for 6 leukemia children will be launched on the platforms of Xiamen Nanputuo Temple Charity Association, Tencent Charity, Baidu Charity and other platforms.
A person from the Nanputuo Temple Charity Association said that for each fundraising target, 10% of the total fundraising target will be matched. The fundraising amount will be settled on the day and paid to the fundraising target account. The project implements a zero management fee system and is fully subsidized. Verification fees, service fees, audit fees and other fees to help severely ill patients and families.
NPC deputy, vice president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, and president of Xiamen Nanputuo Temple Charity Association Ze Wuda, monk, and party secretary of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, Li Weihua, were interviewed by reporters. Photo by Yang Fushan
Charity and caring people from all walks of life, 5 representatives of family members and 3 representatives of children participated in the launch ceremony.
NPC deputy, vice president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, and President of Xiamen Nanputuo Temple Charity Association, monk Ze Wu introduced in an interview with a reporter from China News that one of the highlights of this public fundraising project is that all sectors of society play their respective roles and advantages , The Charity Association and the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University exert their respective advantages and work together for public welfare; at the same time, the medical expenses of children's leukemia are high, and it is difficult for individuals and a unit to provide financial protection for patients, so the launch of public fundraising projects can allow more social forces to provide patients provide assurance.
Since its founding in 1994, the Nanputuo Temple Charity Association has opened an individual application window for severe poverty and poverty alleviation, facing the society, and accepting applications for critical illness assistance for poor families who have become poor due to illness and returned to poverty due to illness. Over the past 20 years, nearly 10,000 severely ill patients have been subsidized, which has reduced the financial burden of poor families to some extent.
Monk Wu said that he hopes to use this launching ceremony as a starting point to mobilize social resources, gather charitable forces, and help patients and families with serious illnesses more effectively and fundamentally to help them through the difficult treatment stage. "As long as we practice good intentions, there is hope that charity will change from limited to infinite."
He said that he will give full play to the role of Buddhist charity in the development of the new era, combine the advantages of hospitals, practice the core values of socialism, contribute to the construction of "Love Xiamen", and contribute to the critical stage of poverty alleviation Advocate and encourage all sectors of society to participate in charitable actions, gather a little bit of love, and let the selfless love overflow the world.
Li Weihua, secretary of the Party Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, said that leukemia is the most difficult disease in children's blood diseases, but there are already many feasible treatments, but the treatment time is long and the cost is very large. The family brings a heavy burden. It is our duty and our responsibility to help the sick families solve the problem of treatment costs, let the children benefit from modern medical treatment, get rid of the sickness, and bring hope to children and families.
He said that Buddhism pays attention to compassion and cares for all beings, which is the common point between the First Hospital and Nanputuo Temple Charity Association. "We are united and we will be able to do a good job in this charity." We hope that socially caring people, caring enterprises, charity units and hospitals will work together to support this kindness and kindness, so that more patients and more families will benefit.
It is understood that in December last year, the Nanputuo Temple Charity Association actively implemented the spirit of the Xiamen Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government's "Caring for Xiamen" Construction Mobilization Conference, and successively carried out related work in conjunction with the construction of "Caring for Xiamen". On December 30 of the same year, Xiamen Nanputuo Temple Charity Association passed the review and obtained the charity organization's public fundraising qualification certificate issued by the Xiamen Civil Affairs Bureau, becoming the only charity organization in Xiamen with public fundraising qualification approved in 2019. (Finish)