Editor's Note
Charity Star 2021
In recent years, caring units and caring people from all walks of life in Songjiang District have actively practiced the core values of socialism, inherited the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, and made positive contributions in key charity areas such as "elderly care, child support, education assistance, and poverty alleviation", as well as special actions such as decisive victory in poverty alleviation and fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic, and a large number of advanced units and individuals have emerged. In order to give full play to the exemplary and leading role of charity and cultivate the social civilization of reverence for virtue and benevolence, and the charity of charity, the first Songjiang District "Charity Star" award-winning representative deeds are launched in stages, with a view to promoting the spirit of charity and advocating charitable behavior through joint learning, driving more social forces to actively participate in charity and public welfare undertakings, so that everyone can be charitable and do charity can become a social trend, and inject more warm forces into the high-quality promotion of the modern new Songjiang construction of "science and technology, humanities and ecology". This issue brings the detailed deeds of the first Songjiang District "Charity Star" (collective) winners - Xilin Zen Temple and Shanghai Huagang Industrial Co., Ltd.
Xilin Zen Temple
As the first stop of Songjiang Buddhism, Xilin Zen Temple has always adhered to the spirit of buddha's great compassion and great compassion, under the leadership of Master Wuduan, with the spirit of birth to do the cause of entering the world, actively practice the Buddhist concept of compassion, practice the bodhisattva path, pull out suffering and happiness, cultivate the blessed fields, and devote itself to charity and public welfare undertakings with fruitful results and won good praise from society. In particular, since the establishment of the "Chong'en Fund" in 2006 and the establishment of the Chong'en Fund Salon in 2012, the charity and public welfare work of the monastery has been specialized and standardized, and the Buddhist theory has been publicized and practiced in poverty alleviation, relief and relief, respect for the elderly and the young, support for the weak, charity and public welfare, as well as compassion, gratitude, life care, vegetarian food, etc. Gained the selfless support of devout believers.
In 2005, the tsunami in Southeast Asia donated 10.000 yuan; in 2006, Fuding "Sangmei" The typhoon disaster donated 50.000 yuan; the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan organized Songjiang monasteries donated 27.000 yuan, the monks and staff of Xilin Zen Temple donated 19.335 yuan; in 2009, 17.900 yuan was donated to commemorate the first anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan; 20.000 yuan was donated to the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai; and 104.302 yuan was donated to the Monasteries in Songjiang in the 2013 Ya'an Lushan earthquake in Sichuan. Among them, Xilin Zen Temple donated 20.000 yuan; Master Wuduan donated 20.000 yuan in his personal name; and 122.570 yuan was donated in 2015 when the 8.1 earthquake in Nepal occurred. In 2016, a particularly serious disaster occurred in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, and the temple donated 20,000 yuan to the affected areas.
Caring for young people is the most important investment in the future of mankind. Since 2017, he has donated 123,000 yuan to the charity fund Songjiang Branch for the purpose of helping orphan students from 7 colleges and universities in Songjiang University Town. This activity has been running for 5 consecutive years this year and will continue to be continued.
Caring for the elderly is a responsibility of human beings to a harmonious society. From 2012 to 2016, Xilin Zen Temple held the 99 Festival for five consecutive years, with more than 2,000 participants and more than 300,000 yuan in capital opening costs. In 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, we donated 50,000, 60,000, 60,000 and 60,000 to the Songjiang District Elderly Foundation to help the poverty alleviation projects for the low-income elderly.
From 2015 to 2017, for three consecutive years, Chong'en Foundation held the "New Year Bell Striking, Charity Dinner, Calligraphy and Painting Charity Auction, Lantern Blessing" activity, and from 2018 to 2020, Songjiang Dizang Ancient Temple and Xilin Zen Temple held the "Pray for a Lucky Year and Hand in Hand Charity Night" On New Year's Day. All the proceeds are used for charity, education assistance, expansion, poverty alleviation, disaster relief, respect for the elderly, release of life, etc.
Actively matching poor ethnic minority families, promoting Buddhist monasteries to pair up with families in need to help the poor, and achieving good social results. From 2014 to 2019, for 6 consecutive years, Master Wuduan, on behalf of the Chong'en Fund of Xilin Zen Temple, donated 30,000 yuan to the District Ethnic Minorities Federation every year for poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation for ethnic minorities. From 2020 onwards, the Buddhist Association of Songjiang District will continue to dock with the District Ethnic Minorities Federation and continue to carry out poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation for ethnic minorities.
For five consecutive years from 2011 to 2015, Master Wuduan donated 100,000 yuan to the Songjiang District Red Cross "Hope for Life" - Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Medical Aid Project, accumulating 500,000 yuan, on behalf of the Chong'en Fund of Xilin Zen Temple. In 2018, the Red Cross Society of Songjiang District of Shanghai signed the agreement on the "Hope of Life" - Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Medical Assistance Project from 2018 to 2022, which has been implemented for 3 years, using Buddhist "good deeds" and "compassion" to save lives and protect the injured. As always, adhere to the purpose of Buddhist compassion, make use of the existing advantages, seize the opportunities of the times, give full play to the special role of the Chongen brand, deliver a good voice for the healthy development of Songjiang Buddhism, condense positive energy, and promote the healthy development of Shanghai Buddhism.
At the critical moment of fighting the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Master Wuduan took the lead in using his donation action of compassion and love to drive and influence the Songjiang Buddhist Association, various monasteries, individual teachers, and dharma protectors, and received more than 1.6 million yuan in donations through the integration of online platforms and offline channels. The integration of public welfare charity operation methods and methods allows more love to open up public welfare resources through innovative management models, make useful attempts for charitable donations and services, and achieve certain social influence.
Under the abbot of Master Wuduan, Xilin Zen Temple inherits the fine tradition of the elderly monks, adheres to the Buddhist spirit of charity and charity, has always paid attention to the care of social charity and welfare, and strived to solve problems for the disadvantaged groups in society, donating a total of 7471608.9 yuan from 2007 to February 28, 2021.
Shanghai Huagang Industrial Co., Ltd
Shanghai Huagang Industrial Co., Ltd. was established in August 1993, after more than 20 years of development, the company now has a group of capable management personnel and a high-quality professional and technical team. The company has always adhered to the belief that "enterprises are part of the society, must have a sense of social responsibility", vigorously carried forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation of "being kind to people, helping the weak and helping the poor", actively participated in public welfare undertakings, and contributed to the construction of a harmonious society.
Public welfare education ignites hope
On the afternoon of September 5, 2017, at the Songjiang District Youth Activity Center - Dream Theater, the Songjiang Branch of Shanghai Charity Foundation, the Shanghai Songjiang District Disabled Persons Committee, the Yunweipai Public Welfare Platform and the public welfare and benevolent people from all walks of life jointly celebrated the first anniversary of China Charity Day. In order to the smooth progress of the student aid fund, the charity auction of the donated products of the caring people was carried out on the spot, and the 96,000 yuan from this auction will all enter the Cloud Micro Auction Scholarship Fund, and the company donated 80,000 yuan to the charity free auction scholarship fund to dedicate its love and ignite hope for poor children.
Targeted poverty alleviation has a long way to go
In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on targeted poverty alleviation, and in accordance with the overall requirements of the district party committee and the district government for poverty alleviation and development work, from March 17 to March 22, 2019, the company went to the paired townships in Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province to carry out visits and research activities.
During the inspection, the company successively visited Mengla County and Menghai County, and through field research villages, visits to poor households and symposiums, learned about the basic economic, political, cultural, social and other development conditions of the two counties, and signed a party building twinning agreement and a "double hundred" village enterprise twinning agreement with the paired townships. At the same time, the progress of the poverty alleviation cooperation project was inspected on the spot and 4 poor households were visited and sent condolence money to them. In the research work of paired poverty alleviation in Xishuangbanna Prefecture, the company invested a total of 100,000 yuan in poverty alleviation funds. In May 2020, in the songjiang district party committee and the Xinqiao town government poverty alleviation work arrangement, in order to thoroughly implement the overall deployment of the city, district and town on precision poverty alleviation work, we will effectively do a good job in poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation. The company consumes more than 800,000 yuan to poverty alleviation in Mengla County and Menghai County of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province. Poverty alleviation is not a one-man show of the government, but a chorus of society.
In times of crisis, it is an unshirkable duty
In January 2020, a sudden outbreak of coronavirus pneumonia was raging, and at a time of crisis, companies had an unshirkable responsibility. The company donated funds and materials to the Shanghai Jade Buddha Zen Temple to fight the epidemic.
In the case of shortage of epidemic prevention materials, the company actively purchased masks, disinfectant water and other epidemic prevention materials through various channels, and donated more than 50,000 disinfectant water and masks to the frontline personnel of the anti-epidemic frontline such as the West Neighborhood Committee of Xinqiao Town. During the epidemic, the company donated more than 500,000 yuan to all sectors of society. Fighting the epidemic with one heart and building a better home together is a social responsibility that should be fulfilled. Spring has arrived, may I take off my mask as soon as possible and breathe the fragrance of spring together.
Caring for the society and giving back to the society is the corporate responsibility that the company always keeps in mind. All along, the company has insisted on carrying out various forms of public welfare activities, and has donated more than 2 million yuan to the Shanghai Charity Foundation by 2020. Carry forward the enterprise spirit of "unity and hard work, hard work, selfless dedication, and common prosperity", and make new contributions to social welfare undertakings!
Source: District Charity Foundation Representative Office Jiang