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Category: Charity Ningbo
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Published: Tuesday, 22 October 2013 14:04
According to incomplete statistics of Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs, by October 13:30, Ningbo received donated money as much as 31,400,300 yuan and materials valuing 40,278,600 yuan.
Of the 31,400,300 yuan received, 12,380,400 yuan is received by Ningbo Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, Red Cross of Ningbo, Ningbo Charity Federation, Ningbo Overseas Chinese Federation, Ningbo Municipal Committee of the Youth League, Ningbo General Trade Union and Ningbo Women's Federation. 11,019,900 yuan is received by Yuyao. Ningbo also has received donations of 8 million yuan by the party committees and governments of other cities.
Of the donated supplies, Yuyao city received 606 donations, valuing 40,278,600 yuan. The donations include 109,500 boxes of biscuits, 186,200 boxes of water, 45,400 boxes of instant noodle, 983,00o boxes of porridge, 100,000 pieces of zhongzi, 1,226 canoes, 56,700 flash lights, 24,000 spades, 20,000 brooms, 4 trucks of food and drinks, 44 donations of medicine and power generators, clothing, and sterilants.
So far, except for some mineral water, all donated materials have been sent to the rescue stations in Yuyao.
On October 13, Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Government, Zhoushan Municipal Party Committee and Government, Wanzhou District Party Committee and Government of Chongqing have sent letters and telegraphs of condolence to Ningbo.
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Category: Charity Ningbo
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Published: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 19:26
According to Ningbo Charity Federation, in the past five years, Ningbo Charity Federation has raised money for charity as much as 196 million yuan. and spent 171 million yuan for the invest 1 billion yuan on the assistance of 72,000 people. The expenditure increases by 35.7% against that in the preceding five years.
In the past five years, Ningbo Charity Federation has integrated the ten largest charity projects, in the four fields of poverty relief, public welfare, production assistance and volunteer service. Of these projects, the Charity Project for Children with Heart Problem funded the operation of kids with congenital heart defects; the Rainbow Schooling Aid Project, funded by 1,018 individuals and 46 enterprises, aided 1,491 students with fund of 8.95 million yuan.
Ningbo Charity Federation also carried out "self-blood-making" projects, to support those poverty stricken farmers who have some production ability and certain production conditions. In 2012, Ningbo Charity Federation set up a poverty relief base, which provides farmers with production projects to start with. By June 2013, Ningbo Charity Federation spent funds of 6,600,000 yuan supporting 362 poverty stricken families, and establishing 10 charity poverty relief bases. 127 families got rid of poverty, accounting for 35.1% of the total.
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