Teens raise cash to help families of missing children
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ABOUT 100 local high school students raised more than 61,000 yuan (US$9,300) yesterday to help families with missing children.
“From news reports, we got to know that parents with children abducted or lost usually stop work to look for them all over the country and live in poverty without incomes,” Wang Yinying, a senior student at Weiyu High School, told Shanghai Daily. “We hope to give them as much help as we can,” she said.
The students spent about three months organizing and promoting the event with sponsorship from Vision Overseas, a foreign study consultation company, and staged a charity bazaar and performances at the Wanda Reign Hotel in the Bund area yesterday afternoon.
About 400 people bought tickets, each costing 61 yuan, to see the performances and 200 people showed up for the bazaar.
All the money raised will be donated to the Hope for Home program run by the China Charities Aid Foundation for Children, which will distribute it to families in need.
“Although the event is small in scale in comparison with similar activities held by companies or non-governmental organizations, we decided to cooperate with them as it can raise young people’s sense of social responsibility,” said Ye Weiwei, director of the foundation.
“The life of families with children missing is more miserable than people can imagine,” she said.
“They suffer from not only economic difficulties, but also psychological problems. I’ve seen many families broken after losing their children.
“So any efforts to help them are valuable and should be cherished.”
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