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We Delivered

RMB 3,429,517

(US$545,233)

in Cash & In-kind
Donations to
Poor Villagers

Our eighth consecutive annual charity effort was a grand success. Clockwise: In-kind donations from AmCham's
We returned to Wuxing Village for the second year with a selected member companies; Free onsite medical consultation
group of business and community leaders including executives from by Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center;
multinational corporations on Feb 1, 2018. Distribution of In-kind donations to Villagers (photo
by GZFAO)
Cash donation of RMB 200,000 (US$31,797) from Mead Johnson
Nutrition and RMB 100,000 (US$15,898) from Jingxing Real Estate and (252 people). According to a preliminary census,
in-kind donation of RMB 3,129,517 (US$497,538) were raised in this Wuxing Village was home to 157 poverty-stricken
year’s charity effort. In-kind donations included products at market households (909 people) before the Chamber’s
value of RMB 60,000 (US$9,539) from P&G, RMB 20,000 (US$3,180) from charity efforts last year.
Apex Tools and Orthopedics, and RMB 3,000,000 (US$476,948) from
Skullcandy Audio (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.. Products of clothing, educational Guangzhou People’s Association for Friendship
materials, bedding, food, stationery, and headsets were donated with Foreign Countries of Guangzhou Foreign
from member companies. All donations will be properly processed by Affairs Bureau, Guangzhou Charity Association
Guangzhou Youth Development Foundation, and cash donations will be of Guangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau, Guangzhou
used to save lives of orphaned children in need of immediate life-saving Women and Children’s Medical Center, and
surgery, and to help Wuxing Village combat poverty. Guangzhou Youth Development Foundation have
been partners in the AmCham South China Charity
On February 2, a team of medical professionals from the Guangzhou Theme Events for several years.■
Women and Children’s Medical Center and the Sanitation Center
of Zhuanshui County co-offered free onsite medical checkups and
consultations to the villagers. The delegation also visited the local
families in need of assistance, allowing AmCham South China to learn
more about the villagers’ living condition.

According to official statistics, Wuxing Village, located in Meizhou City
in Wuhua County, covers an area of 11.5 kilometers with a population of
4,034 people, comprising of 82 relatively poverty-stricken households

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