Italian Friends Received Relief Supplies One After Another

Mar.29.2024

Nowadays, with the help of the catholic clergy and faithful from all society, the governments of Italy and China and all cooperative partners, Jinde Charities have sent urgent medical protective materials, about 4,500,000 yuan to the epidemic-stricken area in Italy through Vatican Pharmacy.

Thank Prof. Giovanni B. Andornino. PhD., China-Italy Charity Forum and GDRF for giving charter flight. At 23:15 Beijing time on March 31th(at 17:15 Roman time), the charter plane landed safely at Milan airport. Catitas Milan which was entrusted by Vatican Pharmacy accepted this batch of supplies. Vatican and China all agreed to send these supplies to Archdiocese of Milan and nearby including Lombardi because Milan was the worst-hit region. First of all, recipient will be the local medical institutions, elderly homes, poor families, vulnerable groups and religious company, especially Lombardi in northeast China.

On April 1th Milan airport

The scene of supplies arriving in Milan(upper and lower pictures)

The supplies arriving in Milan contained 141,000 surgical masks, 10375 protective clothing about 1,533,587 yuan. Before the supplies was transported, Catitas Milan had distributed the supplies to the institutions and groups with urgent need and patients. How urgent they needed supplies!

Labels designed and pasted by Italian friends(left side of the picture above)

Colleagues of Caritas Ambrosiana were unloading and doing acceptance tests(lower pictures)

The second batch of supplies were transshipped from Milan Airport to Vatican Pharmacy. Thank Italian embassy in China provided unpaid charter flight.

The supplies arriving at Roman contained about 10,000 goggles, 4000 N95 masks, 500,000 surgical masks, 27000 medical protective gloves, 8000 protective clothing, and isolation gowns which costed 3,000,000 yuan. These were distributed by Vatican to help Medical Pastoral Office of Roman Diocese, Italian Catholic Sacred Heart University Teaching Hospital, Diocese of Macerata and government, Alps National Union Hospital, some medical institutions like Universal Expo Love, vulnerable groups and communities.

April 2th: Macerata--the city of Vatican

Matteo Ricci’s hometown of Macherata in Markai need medical supplies urgently. Entrusted by the government of Macerata, two police officers drove from Macerata to Vatican at ten O’clock yesterday. It took two officers seven hours to cover 500 kilometers in order to take the present from China--a batch of supplies.

After seeing the supplies, Bp. Marekni was very happy. He said, “Sincerely thank all faithful and people from all society for the donation. The whole Macerata is very grateful to receive the supplies. This is a great gift which God gave us by people. This was also a contribution of Fr. Matteo Ricci.” By same evening, 20000 masks were distributed to the medical institutions and groups which had urgent need.

April 3th: Milan

Prof. Elisa Giunipero. PhD of Milan Catholic Sacred Heart University left a message to Jinde Charities: Dear Chinese friends, this morning the community of Sant’ Egidio in Milan finally received the material from our friends in China. Thanks to the effort of everyone, we hope to use this material to help the homeless and the elderly in need. We are deeply moved by the generous help from our Chinese brothers and sisters. Thank you!”

April 3th: Villa Rosa Hospital

When two staffs(from lower pictures) of Lazio Region in Italy Viterbo Province Villa Rosa Hospital receive the supplies from Vatican Pharmacy, they gave a thumbs-up and said gratefully, “These supplies are as important as the Holy Water in hunger and thirst. Thank for the Catholic clergy & faithful and various others in Society. Love binds us together.”

Bank information of Jinde Charities Foundation for Foreign Currency Transfer