Dalian, China, 4 December 2015 – Shangri-La Hotel, Dalian’s annual
Winter Charity Ball, held in partnership with the International Club of Dalian
and AmCham Northeast China Chapter, is on its seventh year. The event has
become one of the key events in the city since its inception in 2009.
Nearly 700 guests from the main local domestic and foreign enterprises were in
attendance. The event raised a round total of RMB350, 000 for three charity
organisations: Dalian Little Dolphin Recovery Centre, Rixing Social Welfare
Institution and Wang Dajie Elderly Care Home.
Thanks to the generous
support and donations of its participants for seven years, the Winter Charity
Ball received strong support from Xiamen Airlines, Vitup Health Care Holdings
Inc., Volkswagen New Mobility Services Consulting (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Fidelity
Business Services (Dalian) Ltd., Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Le Belier (Dalian)
Foundry Co., Ltd., Intel Semiconductor (Dalian) Ltd. and so on.
Aside
from the ticket sales, a charity auction at the end of the evening brought an
excited buzz to the atmosphere. Auctioned items included round-trip flight
tickets and room stays at various Shangri-La hotels and resorts all over Asia,
fine jewellery and a laptop.
The funds raised at the Winter Charity
Ball will be used to help the three charity organisations with facility
upgrades, teachers’ professional training, new study equipment purchase and
daily operations.
Little Dolphin Recovery Centre is a non-profit
organisation dedicated to the rehabilitation training of children with autism in
Dalian. The centre was established in May 2006 and covers an area of 1,400
square metres of institutions. At present, it has 60 autistic children in its
programme and 16 professional teachers. Nine years since it was founded, the
centre has carried out effective intervention and rehabilitation training for
more than 300 children with autism, majority of who have improved in various
abilities. The recovery centre has received much praise from parents and the
community.
Rixing Social Welfare Institution is a non-profit
organisation dedicated to adopting orphans. It was founded by Ms. Lin Jie in
August 1997. A very successful business woman during the 1990s, Ms Lin cares
about social charity. She adopted an abandoned baby in 1993 because she, too,
used to be an orphan. After that, she thought of doing more for the children’s
welfare, so she spent more than a RMB100,000 to found an orphanage in1997. To
date, she has adopted more than 75 orphans. Some have already grown up and
married.
Wang Da Jie Elderly Care Home is a public-run non-profit
organisation which has obtained the approval of and archival filing by the
Jinzhou New Area Civil Affairs Bureau. It was founded in June 2006 by Ms. Wang
Yi Ning, who became an orphan at the age of 13 when lost her parents. She was
raise through the unselfish help and support of her neighbourhood. Thus, at the
beginning of her business success, she became concerned about the social
charity. She established Wang Da Jie Elderly Care Home to support the homeless
elderly with no income and treat them as her own parents.
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