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Wenchuan Earthquake Donation Information

Donation Hotline: +86 21 62584343

Local donation line: dial 968600 from within Shanghai

Mobile Phone Donation: Customers of Shanghai Telecom, China Telecom can SMS "1-30" without quotation marks to 106366434343

Bank information for donations

Bank name: Agricultural Bank of China, Huangpu District Lujiabang Rd. Branch ???????????
Account name: Shanghai Charity Foundation ????????
Account number: 033351-00043984343

Donation centers

For cash donations: Shanghai Charity Foundation, Zhizaoju Rd. #88 Building 6 ????88?6?, Telephone: 62584343, 63124091

For donation of goods in PUXI: 405 Zhenning Rd. #164 ???405?164?, Telephone: 52394294

For donation of goods in PUDONG: 2795 Yanggaozhong Rd. ????2795?, Telephone: 62124343

Charity on the Frontlines

To find out how you can help, please call the SCF at +021 6258 4343.

On May 31st, 2006, three-year-old Yang Zhengbin was playing in the small room that his parents rented when they moved to Shanghai from Anhui Province. Of modest means, his parents were boiling down pig fat to use as cooking oil. Unfortunately, as Yang Zhengbin was playing, he fell and knocked over the pot where the pig fat was simmering down. The pot flipped over and covered him in boiling oil. He received burns to over 60% of his body.

Currently, he is out of immediate danger and is receiving medical treatment at Shanghai’s Baogang Hospital, where his medical bills have reached 110,000 yuan. His parents have already raised 60,000 yuan from friends and relatives, but still lack the means to pay the remainder of the debt and take him home from the hospital. Zhengbin will also need skin grafts in the near future and those medical costs have not been calculated yet.

His family, who still lives in Xinhong Village in Pudong, still supplements its income by raising vegetables. His uncle passed away after a long fight with liver cancer in 2005 and his father, Yang Lei, is still in debt from those medical bills.

Gao Qimin was a promising young student at Shan Da College, specializing in Information Managements. In March 2006, he was struck by a brain aneurysm which left him in critical condition and fighting for his life. To find out more about his condition, please read a letter from the concerned members of his university below.

March 30th, 2006
Shanghai Charity Foundation

We write this letter to appeal for your financial support for our student Gao Qimin, who is in the Gongli hospital in Pudong New Area for a brain aneurysm. Although he has received emergency treatment, he is still in critical condition.

Gao Qimin is a senior in Shan Da College, specializing in Information Management. In Sunday, March 12th, 2006, Gao suffered a sudden blood vessel rupture in his brain and was rushed to the hospital. Doctors drilled holes in his brain and pumped out 150cc of blood. Two days later, his condition worsened. The blood vessels ruptured again which caused blood to press against his brain stem. His left pupil began to dilate. Doctors had to conduct a surgery to open his brain to drain the blood. Then, a tracheotomy was performed in order to give him a 4,400cc blood transfusion. On March 15th, the pupil did not contract. On March 16th, he was still in critical condition and had to be sent to the ICU ward where he remains to this day.

Gao is a caring and helpful boy, and is an active member of the college’s social life. In March 2005, before his accident, he was a voluntary blood donor.

His father, Gao Jianfan is an handicapped employee at the Shanghai Jin Hong Construction Company, and only has a monthly income of 1,500 yuan per month. His right leg has undergone two surgeries for multiple malignant tumors.

Zhang Wenzheng, Gao Qimin’s mother, earns 1,600 yuan per month as an employee in the Culture Palace in Jing’an district. She has also undergone two surgeries for breast cancer.

Because he is a private college student Gao is not entitled to public health services. Also because the amount of insurance is limited, his parents have had to borrow 68,500 yuan from their relatives to pay for his medical fees. So far his medical bills have totaled over 160,000 yuan.

His classmates have donated 30,000 yuan, but that was little more than a drop in the ocean.

His last operation, still unpaid for, cost 40,000 yuan, and doctors are hoping to perform a fifth surgery when he awakes from his coma. Unfortunately, Gao’s family do not have the funds to pay for the operation. In addition to the cost of the previous operations, the cost of life support and Gao’s hospital stay is growing every day.

We hope the well-known Shanghai Charity Foundation can support Gao to and do for him what you have done for another student from our college, Huang Sai, who suffered from leukemia. Thank you.

The Shanghai Shan Da College