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Philanthropy
Never Ends...
Nov 30, AmCham South China announced details of its (Left to right) Zhang Hanyuan, Vice Secretary General of Guangzhou
annual charity fundraising effort at W Guangzhou, of Youth Development Foundation, Abraham Nicholas Morse, Director
which the attendees included board members of AmCham of Urogynecology and Director of Academic Program Development,
South China, U.S. Consul General in Guangzhou, Mr. Charles Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Edouard Mac Nab,
Bennett, Vice President Finance at Greater China, Mead Vice President Finance, Greater China, Mead Johnson Nutrition, Dr.
Johnson Nutrition, Mr. Edouard Mac Nab, and Executive Harley Seyedin, President of AmCham South China, Charles Bennett,
Director and General Manager of Jingxing Real Estate, Mr. U.S. Consul General in Guangzhou, Exucetive Director and General
Jing Yijie. Manager, Guangzhou Jingxing Real Estate Company, Ma Manhe,
Guangzhou Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and
This year’s program is co-organized by Guangzhou Tim Wen, Treasurer of AmCham South China
People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries,
Guangzhou Charity Association (under Guangzhou station for the villagers, and a one-kilometer road to its
Civil Affairs Bureau), Guangzhou Youth Development neighboring village.
Foundation, and Guangzhou Women and Children’s
Medical Center, aiming to raise donations of material This is the 8th consecutive year of AmCham’s overall
and funds. The in-kind donations will be distributed charity activities. In the past eight years, AmCham South
to Guangdong’s impoverished Wuxing Village (part of China has collected cash donation of RMB4.73 million
Meizhou City) and other poor villages later this year and and in-kind donation worth RMB6.57 million for children
early next year. Additionally, cash donations will be used in severe condition and four impoverished villages.
to finance medical treatments for orphaned children at As a foreign non-profit organization with long-term
Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center and dedication to the public welfare, AmCham South China
to help the poor villages. All donations will go through calls for more attention from all sectors of community
Guangzhou Youth Development Foundation with proper on the development and growth of the poor population
receipts issued to the donors. and the children in severe condition with a purpose of
cultivating a broader future for them.■
AmCham South China President Dr. Harley Seyedin has
disclosed the plans and beneficiaries. He has also noted that
weeks before the official launch, Mead Johnson Nutrition
and Jingxing Real Estate had already pledged RMB200,000
and RMB100,000 in cash respectively.
In its second consecutive year, AmCham South China
will organize an inspection tour to Wuxing Village and
the nearby impoverished villages in mid or late January,
2018. According to official statistics, Wuxing Village,
located in Wuhua County of Meizhou City, covers an area
of 11.5 kilometers and owns a population of 4,034 people,
comprising of 82 relatively poverty-stricken households
(252 people). Before the Chamber’s charity efforts, Wuxing
Village was home to 157 poverty-stricken households (909
people), a preliminary census shows. Since the “targeted
measures to help people lift themselves out of poverty”,
a concept put forward by Chinese President Xi Jinping,
39 households (93 people, 36.9% of the Village’s poverty-
stricken population) have been raised above the poverty
line in the Village. Also, the Village has changed from
none to some in adding windows to its primary school,
a separate workplace to its committee, a public health
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Philanthropy
Never Ends...
Nov 30, AmCham South China announced details of its (Left to right) Zhang Hanyuan, Vice Secretary General of Guangzhou
annual charity fundraising effort at W Guangzhou, of Youth Development Foundation, Abraham Nicholas Morse, Director
which the attendees included board members of AmCham of Urogynecology and Director of Academic Program Development,
South China, U.S. Consul General in Guangzhou, Mr. Charles Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Edouard Mac Nab,
Bennett, Vice President Finance at Greater China, Mead Vice President Finance, Greater China, Mead Johnson Nutrition, Dr.
Johnson Nutrition, Mr. Edouard Mac Nab, and Executive Harley Seyedin, President of AmCham South China, Charles Bennett,
Director and General Manager of Jingxing Real Estate, Mr. U.S. Consul General in Guangzhou, Exucetive Director and General
Jing Yijie. Manager, Guangzhou Jingxing Real Estate Company, Ma Manhe,
Guangzhou Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and
This year’s program is co-organized by Guangzhou Tim Wen, Treasurer of AmCham South China
People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries,
Guangzhou Charity Association (under Guangzhou station for the villagers, and a one-kilometer road to its
Civil Affairs Bureau), Guangzhou Youth Development neighboring village.
Foundation, and Guangzhou Women and Children’s
Medical Center, aiming to raise donations of material This is the 8th consecutive year of AmCham’s overall
and funds. The in-kind donations will be distributed charity activities. In the past eight years, AmCham South
to Guangdong’s impoverished Wuxing Village (part of China has collected cash donation of RMB4.73 million
Meizhou City) and other poor villages later this year and and in-kind donation worth RMB6.57 million for children
early next year. Additionally, cash donations will be used in severe condition and four impoverished villages.
to finance medical treatments for orphaned children at As a foreign non-profit organization with long-term
Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center and dedication to the public welfare, AmCham South China
to help the poor villages. All donations will go through calls for more attention from all sectors of community
Guangzhou Youth Development Foundation with proper on the development and growth of the poor population
receipts issued to the donors. and the children in severe condition with a purpose of
cultivating a broader future for them.■
AmCham South China President Dr. Harley Seyedin has
disclosed the plans and beneficiaries. He has also noted that
weeks before the official launch, Mead Johnson Nutrition
and Jingxing Real Estate had already pledged RMB200,000
and RMB100,000 in cash respectively.
In its second consecutive year, AmCham South China
will organize an inspection tour to Wuxing Village and
the nearby impoverished villages in mid or late January,
2018. According to official statistics, Wuxing Village,
located in Wuhua County of Meizhou City, covers an area
of 11.5 kilometers and owns a population of 4,034 people,
comprising of 82 relatively poverty-stricken households
(252 people). Before the Chamber’s charity efforts, Wuxing
Village was home to 157 poverty-stricken households (909
people), a preliminary census shows. Since the “targeted
measures to help people lift themselves out of poverty”,
a concept put forward by Chinese President Xi Jinping,
39 households (93 people, 36.9% of the Village’s poverty-
stricken population) have been raised above the poverty
line in the Village. Also, the Village has changed from
none to some in adding windows to its primary school,
a separate workplace to its committee, a public health
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