Subsidies ensure that poor families can face the future with confidence
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Jiading District is taking a variety of measures to ensure poor families have a warm winter.
It is estimated that around 178,500 people will share a subsidy of more than 24 million yuan (US$3.93 million).
They will also be provided with jobs, services, telephone cards, student subsidies and medical help.
“The annual charity program will pay more attention to financial help as well as psychological support,” said a district civil affairs bureau official. “Migrant workers in Jiading will also receive a New Year gift,” he added.
On December 19, 76 families with financial difficulties in Anting Town received more than 630,000 yuan from the district’s major disease special medical relief fund.
“I spent all the family savings after getting sick, and with the money I can buy some clothes and stationery for my child,” a woman surnamed Lu said.
She became disabled when she injured her legs in an accident in 2008. At the beginning of last year, her family spent another 50,000 yuan on an operation for gallstones. As the family depends on Lu’s parents’ pension of 2,000 yuan a month, they had a really difficult time. She received more than 6,000 yuan from the special medical relief fund.
At the same time, charity funds for youth were also handed out.
On December 27, a woman surnamed Gong living at the Jiading Industrial Zone received a gift and 2,000 yuan from Jiading Red Cross. Gong’s mother said: “The 2,000 yuan cannot last long. However, the care from the society gives us more confidence to conquer the disease.”
Gong fell sick at the beginning of last year, and had an operation in July, then she received radiation treatment and chemotherapy. Her mother quit her job to take care of her.
Before the New Year holiday, six children with serious diseases also received financial support from the Red Cross.
Around 80 youths are to receive subsidies from the Youth League.
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