Temple sanitation staff donation raises a stink
By Pan Zheng |
December 9, 2010, Thursday
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SOME sanitation workers at the Confucius Temple in Nanjing City in east China are bewildered these days because they have been asked to hand in the donations they received from a philanthropist to their administrative department.
The administrative department explained that workers who received the donations were just representatives of the temple's 100-member sanitation crew, picked at random to attend a charity party.
Officials said the donated cash will be redistributed evenly among all sanitation workers, and the down coats received by the representatives will be given to the best workers this year, the Yangtze Evening News reported yesterday.
Chen Guangbiao, a businessman who earned his reputation by promising to donate all his heritage when he was invited to attend a charity feast hosted by Bill Gates, held a birthday party for Wu Xiuying, a 60-year-old sanitation worker at the temple on November 29 and 50 workers from the Qinhuai Scenic Area, where the temple locates, attended the party, including Wu.
Each of the participants received 500 yuan (US$75) in cash and a down coat from Chen. Wu received an extra 500 yuan as birthday present.
When workers of the temple returned to work, they were asked to hand in all the donations by their superior.
An officer surnamed Li, who manages the sanitation workers, told the newspaper that they selected 33 workers from the temple at random as representatives to the charity party.
"We told the workers that they were representatives of the whole crew because others had to work to keep the environment clean," Li said.
She said they just wanted to balance the benefits among the workers and all the donations would be redistributed evenly before the Spring Festival.
"The redistribution has been approved by all the workers," Li said, adding that Wu had handed in her 1,000 yuan and down coat voluntarily.
Though this was agreed to by some workers who attended the party, one of them called the newspaper to complain that he couldn't understand why they should hand in things donated to them.
"Those cash and coats were specifically donated to us. That was Chen's intention," the worker told the paper.
The administrative department explained that workers who received the donations were just representatives of the temple's 100-member sanitation crew, picked at random to attend a charity party.
Officials said the donated cash will be redistributed evenly among all sanitation workers, and the down coats received by the representatives will be given to the best workers this year, the Yangtze Evening News reported yesterday.
Chen Guangbiao, a businessman who earned his reputation by promising to donate all his heritage when he was invited to attend a charity feast hosted by Bill Gates, held a birthday party for Wu Xiuying, a 60-year-old sanitation worker at the temple on November 29 and 50 workers from the Qinhuai Scenic Area, where the temple locates, attended the party, including Wu.
Each of the participants received 500 yuan (US$75) in cash and a down coat from Chen. Wu received an extra 500 yuan as birthday present.
When workers of the temple returned to work, they were asked to hand in all the donations by their superior.
An officer surnamed Li, who manages the sanitation workers, told the newspaper that they selected 33 workers from the temple at random as representatives to the charity party.
"We told the workers that they were representatives of the whole crew because others had to work to keep the environment clean," Li said.
She said they just wanted to balance the benefits among the workers and all the donations would be redistributed evenly before the Spring Festival.
"The redistribution has been approved by all the workers," Li said, adding that Wu had handed in her 1,000 yuan and down coat voluntarily.
Though this was agreed to by some workers who attended the party, one of them called the newspaper to complain that he couldn't understand why they should hand in things donated to them.
"Those cash and coats were specifically donated to us. That was Chen's intention," the worker told the paper.
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