Dalian, China, 2 December
2016 – 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 eighth year. The event has become one of the key
events in the city since its inception in 2009.
Nearly 600 guests from the main
local domestic and foreign enterprises were in attendance. The event
raised a round total of RMB200, 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 eight years, the Winter Charity
Ball received strong support from Intel Simeconductor (Dalian) Ltd, Fidelity
Business Services (Dalian) Limited, Dalian VITUP International Hospital, and
Volkswagen FAW Engine (Dalian) CO., Ltd., Le Belier 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, Jadeite
Statue and yacht trip.
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.