An outbreak of love for overseas epidemic from Jinde Charities and the Amity

Mar.28.2024

Chinese Christians, including Catholics and Protestants, have seen the plight of people in Italy, Spain, Germany and other countries and regions and offered generous aid. Recently, the Catholic Clergy and Faithful and Christian communities from all the world donated about 650,000 disposable surgical masks, more than 4,000 N95 surgical respirators, 18,000 protective clothing, 27,000 medical protective gloves, and more than 10,000 pairs of goggles, total 800 boxes, about 4.5 million yuan, for the overseas epidemic through Jinde Charities. Among them, 56 cases of medical surgical masks and 268 cases of 10375 protective clothing were loaded from Shijiazhuang to Beijing at dawn on March 26. Because of the heavy rain, the truck has been driving slowly on highway, and arrived Beijing at 5 PM, and then unloaded the truck again, conducted unified inspection, affixed the standard boxes and signs, and finally delivered the goods to the airport charter plane in the evening. Hopefully, the goods arrive safely in Milan today!

After the outbreak in Europe, Jinde Charities received a letter of request from Caritas and Church Hospital. Caritas Milan and Caritas Rome are at the forefront of the fight against the outbreak, carrying out a series of emergency relief operations for the homeless, transforming overnight accommodation into safer accommodation and distributing food, masks and personal protective equipment. "In order to protect the safety and health of the most vulnerable and our workers, we ask for your help and your support, which will bring the friendship between our two peoples closer and closer." Two Caritas made the appeal to China.

Last night, the Overseas Aid Project of Jinde Charities had a phone call with Fr. Savio Yan. Fr. Yan’s group of 10 people had nucleic acid tests this morning, and 6 people had confirmed covid-19. He also had nucleic acid tests this afternoon, and the results were not yet available, but he did not show symptoms. "The situation in Italy is really urgent. We can't find any masks in the pharmacy. We don't have any masks or protective clothing. The only thing we can do now is to rely on God wholeheartedly!"

On March 25, the Amity Foundation raised 500,000 yuan to carry out overseas aid projects in cooperation with Jinde Charities, and donated protective materials to Italy, Spain, Germany and other severely affected countries and regions on behalf of Chinese Christians.

The Amity Foundation, founded in April 1985 by Bp. Ding Guangxun and other Christian leaders in Nanjing with the participation of people from all society, is one of the earliest foundations in China. By being recognized with the Amity Foundation, the Chinese Catholic began to participate in social service work in the 1980s, and gradually launched public welfare undertakings according to the needs of the time and place. The church's traditional social service projects mainly include clinics, specialized hospitals, nursing homes, and homes for disabled infants

From the beginning of outbreaks in Wuhan, the Amity Foundation is quickly start work against epidemic, as of March 17, 24, the Amity Foundation has been raising money, goods and materials for a total of more than 76 million yuan, for Hubei, Jiangsu, 300 hospitals and grassroots medical institutions, more than 100 towns and community organizations at the grass-roots level and Jiangsu aid medical team offers a wide range of medical protective materials and supplies of life. Ten days ago, the Amity Foundation began to participate in the global fight against the epidemic. Qiu Zhonghui, the Chairman of the Amity foundation, said: "Mankind live together in a global village with a shared future. We are ready to work with Jinde Charities depending on our experience in fighting the epidemic and our extensive international cooperation network to fight against the epidemic, to provide support and help within our capacity, and bring our love and care to people in need around the world." Ling Chunxiang, the Secretary of the Amity, said that 2020 was an unusual year, with new outbreaks putting many countries and regions in trouble.

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