An old man in Shanghai sells his home villa to donate twenty million of hope project.
origin: China Youth newspaper Author: Zhou Kai Wang Ye
a Shanghai old man sold the villa in personal name to the hope worker The donation is 20 million yuan. At the 20th Anniversary Symposium Commemorating the implementation of Shanghai's hope project today, the 71 year old nephew of the old man, Xu Zuqian, came to "celebrate the life of the hope project" with the greatest contribution to his personal identity.
this three story old villa is located at 28 Lane 1670 Huaihai Road, Shanghai, with a floor area of 382.83 square meters and completed in 1936. The owner of the villa is Xu Zuqian's grandfather, Xu Tong Xiang, the famous general manager of the famous hotel in Shanghai.
Xu Zuqian is a middle school teacher. His uncle, Xu Siu Tun, has lived in this villa on Huaihai Road for a long time. "Uncle during his illness, he has been concerned about the news of various social welfare organizations, and finally selected the hope project." Xu Zuqian said that the primary school construction project is a public welfare project that is most satisfied with the whole family, because it "pays attention to the children at the bottom of the society," and "the first hope primary school that uncle donated has fallen into, we are all happy."
it is reported that Shanghai Hope Engineering Office has raised nearly 800 million yuan in 20 years. A total of 7 million 800 thousand people in Shanghai participated in the project, and more than 2000 primary schools and more than 100 Red Army primary schools were built.
in recent years, with the full popularization of the nine year compulsory education for primary and middle school students throughout the country, Shanghai hope project has expanded on the basis of the original construction of school and aid students, including the training of primary school teachers, the study of Lei Feng foundation, the University of Yuan Meng, the fund of Guan Ailiu, the fund for children and the rural cultural construction fund. And other projects. In the future, the focus of Shanghai's hope will be "left behind children", and a number of "left behind children Hope House" will be built to create good conditions for the healthy growth of left behind children.
"uncle's wish is to do more things in the snow, not to add icing on the cake, hope project is done in line with his original intention." What Xu Zuqian sees is that the project is good at "changing", "it will design different public welfare projects to help them according to the different needs of the children in the poor areas of each period."