When one side is in trouble, all sides support. Since July 20, the public has donated a large amount of money to the disaster areas in Henan through the Internet public fund-raising platform. Up to now, the Henan flood theme on Tencent commonweal and Alipay commonweal has raised more than 900million yuan.
According to the data obtained by the public welfare Times reporter from the China Population Welfare Foundation, as of 15:00 on July 31, the foundation had launched 10 Henan flood fund-raising projects on 6 Internet public fund-raising platforms, including Tencent public welfare and Alipay public welfare, and has raised more than 150million yuan for charity. In addition, the foundation also received 5.583283 million yuan of donations from Tencent charity foundation, caring enterprises and individuals.
At the same time, the information released by China Poverty Alleviation Foundation shows that as of July 27, the Henan flood project launched by the foundation has raised more than 100 million yuan. According to the information released by one foundation, at 17:00 on July 29, the Henan flood project launched by the foundation raised 34.51026451 million yuan.
As a foundation with the purpose of “improving population welfare and promoting family happiness”, why did the China Population Welfare Foundation raise such high donations in the disaster relief in Henan? How will these donations be used and how will the foundation deal with the pressure?
From 15 million yuan to 150 million yuan
On July 21, China Population Welfare Foundation launched Henan flood fund-raising projects in Alipay public welfare, Tencent public welfare, Yibao public welfare, shuidi public welfare and easy public welfare respectively. “We mobilized the international project department, domestic project department, social liaison department and other business departments to launch different rescue projects according to the division of labor and project focus.” Song Hongyun, Deputy Secretary General of China Population Welfare Foundation, said.
The initial fund-raising goal of the foundation was 15 million yuan. “We set a fund-raising goal of 15 million yuan according to past experience, but with the continuous development of the whole disaster situation and our continuous understanding of the actual situation in the disaster area, the fund-raising amount is also increasing.” Song Hongyun stressed.
According to the data provided by the foundation, two fund-raising projects with a fund-raising target of 15 million yuan, namely “helping Henan, we are in action” and “helping Henan affected families rebuild”, launched by Tencent public welfare, have been fully raised.
The “we are in action to help Henan Province” project with a fund-raising target of 15million yuan launched by Alipay public welfare has been fully funded, and the “reconstruction of Henan after the Catastrophic Rainstorm” project with a fund-raising target of 50million yuan has also been fully funded; The fund-raising for the “post rainstorm reconstruction” project still under preparation has exceeded 40 million yuan.
In addition, the foundation is still raising funds for Tencent public welfare, Alibaba public welfare, Yibao public welfare, shuidi public welfare and relaxed public welfare.
As of 15:00 on July 31, the foundation has launched 6 Internet public fund-raising platforms and 10 flood fund-raising projects in Henan, raising more than 150 million yuan.
Asked about the fund-raising goal, song Hongyun said: “it is not ruled out to continue to increase the fund-raising amount while continuing to provide assistance and giving full play to the role of charity funds in the field of medical and health care.”
Focus on the field of medical and health care
Why did the Henan flood Internet fund-raising project of China Population Welfare Foundation get such a high fund-raising amount?
The reporter of public welfare times combed the 10 fund-raising projects of the foundation and found that its fund-raising focused more on the field of medical and health care. For example, the three projects launched by Alipay commonweal currently have a total raised amount of more than 100million yuan, all involving assistance to medical institutions.
The beneficiaries of the project are medical and health institutions in the disaster area and vulnerable people affected by the disaster (the fund-raising target is 15 million yuan); The beneficiaries of the “reconstruction after severe rainstorm in Henan” project are public hospitals at all levels in Henan province seriously affected by the severe rainstorm (the fund-raising target is 50 million yuan); The “post rainstorm reconstruction” project helps the reconstruction of hospitals affected by rainstorms and post disaster epidemic prevention in Henan.
In addition, the foundation also launched projects focusing on “supporting disaster relief, post disaster reconstruction and improvement of disaster reduction and emergency response capacity”, “focusing on women’s development and family development”, “supporting rescue forces in flood control and disaster relief, protecting vulnerable children in disaster areas and strengthening post disaster community construction”, but the amount raised is relatively low.
From the demand of the disaster area, hospitals at all levels in Henan province did suffer varying degrees of losses in the flood. The normal medical order was seriously impacted. Facing the rebound epidemic situation, post disaster epidemic prevention and patients in urgent need of diagnosis and treatment, it is necessary to quickly restore the medical order.
According to Zhao Benzhi, Secretary General of the China population and welfare foundation, the Henan service team of the foundation’s love rush to aid learned during the investigation in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University that when the water accumulated most seriously, the water level in the hospital was always raised to the third floor, while the valuable equipment and precision instruments placed on the first floor and the lower floor of the hospital were affected, including CT, NMR, Dr, color Doppler ultrasound, PET-CT, linear accelerator, gamma knife, high-pressure oxygen warehouse, power distribution room, control system Security system, computer room, etc.
The grass-roots hospitals were also seriously damaged. The service team found that the infrastructure of the central health center in Sishui Town, Xingyang was destroyed, and Dr, medical oxygen generator, ECG monitor, color Doppler ultrasound and emergency ambulance were all damaged.
In the face of this situation, as the foundation in charge of the national health and Health Commission, China population and welfare foundation is undoubtedly very appropriate to carry out assistance in the field of health and medical treatment. In this field, “as an old public welfare organization, the foundation has continuously improved its social popularity and reputation after more than 30 years of efforts, and has been widely recognized and supported by Internet users.” Song Hongyun said.
The foundation wrote in the fund-raising document: “we will rely on the provincial, municipal and county health administrative departments to apply according to the damage of the hospitals under our jurisdiction, and I will subsidize according to the actual situation.”
In fact, on the afternoon of July 26, the service team went to Henan Provincial Health Commission. Under the introduction of Kan Quancheng, director and Liu Yanjun, deputy director of Henan Provincial Health Commission, the service team learned about the disaster situation in Henan Province, deeply discussed the future rescue direction, and planned the assistance measures in detail.
The pressure is still relatively high
The high amount of Internet fund-raising is not only a result for the foundation, “the pressure is still relatively large.” Zhao Benzhi said, “but the love of netizens and the attention of the society are