On Friday, April 3, several boxes with a total of 4,500 KN95 masks were heading to the Madrid Hospital of La Paz. On the outside, a message "Cheer Spain! Cheer Madrid! - Elena Ji", accompanied a drawing of a winged heart with the flag of Spain and two toilets facing the coronavirus.

This drawing belongs to Elena Ji, a young woman of only 9 years old who decided to help Spain in front of the Covid-19 to thank that a few years ago the sanitarians of this hospital saved her life.

But, let us start at the beginning. In 2010, Walter Ji was appointed CEO of Huawei Technologies Spain and Portugal, since he held until 2016, when he became leader of the group at the European level. During that period in which he lived in Madrid, his daughter (three years old at the time) fell ill with cancer and was admitted to the Hospital de La Paz.

The little girl was saved and went ahead, and despite her young age, she claims to remember her stay at the center and the care she received from the health professionals in La Paz.

Elena Ji left Spain four years ago to move to Dusseldorf, Huawei's European headquarters and where her father was assigned with the change of position. But when Madrid began to occupy the front pages of the press last March due to the serious impact of the coronavirus, Elena did not hesitate to ask her father to fly to the Spanish capital in order to help.

Walter Ji convinced the little girl that this idea was impossible, but in return they would help in another way, providing sanitary material, a very precious asset in these moments in which the sanitarians complain about their lack.

Walter prepared the shipment to the Hospital of La Paz of several boxes with a total of 4,500 KN95 masks, a donation from his pocket, in his personal capacity, and detached from the donations that Huawei has made on his own (one million masks to Spain) .

On the outside of the boxes, a drawing that the girl had made a few days before is in charge of thanking those toilets for their work, both the one they are doing now and the one they did a few years ago when they saved Elena Ji's life.

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