AustCham Shanghai Lends a Hand
As a non-profit organisation, AustCham Shanghai annually donates
a substantial amount to nominated charitable organisations
operating within China.
How We Help
The Chamber raises the money, mostly, through its popular calendar of events and Friday night Aussie Drinks.
Who We Help
AustCham Shanghai thanks Hooker Cockram for generously
donating the remaining RMB12,500 required for the heart surgery of
a 5 year old girl, Qi Huiyun through Rotary Gift of
Life.
Those AustCham Shanghai has recently assisted and/or will be
assisting include the following:
- Aussie Drinks Community Outreach
project provides Expo tickets to the disabled
community with each disabled person receiving 2 tickets, one for
themselves and one for their carer. Fundraising started at Aussie Drinks since
Friday 29 January 2010 aiming to raise
RMB36,000 for 400 Expo tickets.
- Wheelchair Foundation aims to create
awareness of the needs and abilities of people with physical
disabilities, to deliver a wheelchair to every child and adult in
the world who needs one, but cannot afford one. AustCham
Shanghai donated funds for 100 wheelchairs to be delivered to local
communities in Shanghai.
- Shanghai Sunrise gives financial support
to underprivileged students in Shanghai. AustCham Shanghai will
support 15 university or high school students to complete their
studies as well as librabries for 2 schools.
- Shanghai Municipal Welfare Foundation for
Disabled assists 520,000 disabled people in Shanghai.
AustCham Shanghai committed to help the disable children
and those from disable family to complete their studies and cover
medical expenses of the disabled patients in Sunshine Home in
Fenxian District.
- You Dao supports migrant group in
Shanghai. GABXIV 2009 Community Outreach
project is to support the Golden Years Kindergarten in
Qingcun, Fenxian District through You Dao. Through
this year's fundraising we hope to provide Full/partial
scholarships, School field trips and Family Activity Days which
will change the future of these children. Below is a photo of
the first 10 children identified for scholarships.
- Reinier Jessurun, the Aussie Marathon
runner, aims to raise USD40,000 from the race to build a school in
Gansu Province affected by Sichuan earthquake. AustCham Shanghai
committed RMB136,000 to rebuild a classroom
building in Moujia Primary School, Gansu Province.
- Hu Dongdong, a local boy needing critical and
ongoing medical treatment for a serious leg infection. Since 2004/5
we have committed funds to support Hu Dong Dong's ongoing medical
treatment.
Those AustCham Shanghai has helped in previous years include the
following:
- Clothing and Toy Collection
- Craniofacial provides
under privileged children with facial deformities
reconstructive surgery as well as training Chinese surgeons in
craniofacial reconstruction.
- Gift of Life, run through Rotary,
provides heart surgeries for children. Over the last 10 years,
AustCham Shanghai has sponsored 26 urgent heart surgeries for
children.
- Gift of Life Friends, a volunteer-led managed
group, provides post-operative care, supplies and support for
children that have undergone heart surgeries. The group provides
dietary supplements, and other support for families and children
affected.
- Fred Hollows Foundation provides eye care for
poor and disadvantaged people who live far way from capital cities
and treatment centres.
- Heart to Heart school library
projects in Anhui Province and heart surgeris for children in
remote areas.
- LifeLine Shanghai is a hotline service that
provides free, confidential support and information for expatriates
living in Shanghai. Call 6279 8990 between 10am-10pm everyday to
speak anonymously with a trained expatriate volunteer.
- Pudong Special School lunch expenses &
musical instruments for Chinese athletes.
- Save the Children fights for children around
the world who suffer from poverty, disease, injustice and
violence.
- Shanghai Charity
Foundation is a charity organisation which assists
those in need in Shanghai and Greater China. Projects that AustCham
Shanghai have supported include:
- Daily use items and bathroom construction for Jinshan
Elderly People's Home
- Chinese New Year gifts for low income families from Fenxian
District
- tuitions for children from low income families from Huangpu
District
- Daily use items for Wuzhong Mental Rehabilitation Hospital
- Clothes for children from Mianyang Camp School in Sichuan
Province
- Eye Care project for migrant school children
- Special Olympics Australia - travel
expenses for Australian athletes.
- XinXing Aid for Street Kids -
daily/educational/medical expenses; staff training expense; office
facilities expense; children's schooling.
Let Us Help You
The Chamber is always actively seeking charities it may assist
and welcomes members' suggestions. Please contact Lily Sun (lily.sun@austchamshanghai.com) with
a detailed proposal.
Criteria the Board of Directors consider include:
- the money must directly and substantially impact the end user
and little should be absorbed by administration;
- the organisation must be sustainable;
- the organisation must operate locally so that AustCham
Shanghai's donation benefits people within the local area; and
- AustCham Shanghai prefers to support organisations with which
it can form close ties.
Low income families in Bansongyuan Community, Huangpu District,
Shanghai