Nandu News trainee reporter Liu Jixian correspondent Xiao Chenqian"Zhongshan Torch High-tech Zone held the 2024 Charity Ten Thousand Walk Appreciation Conference and Parade Activities, which officially started! On the morning of February 23, Liu Yunmei, deputy mayor of Zhongshan City and secretary of the Party Working Committee of Zhongshan Torch High-tech Zone, announced the start of the parade and sounded the horn. An expected charity feast came as scheduled, condensing the love power of **, social organizations, enterprises and individuals, and playing a "chorus" in which everyone participated.
On the morning of February 23, Zhongshan Torch High-tech Zone held the 2024 Charity Walk Appreciation Conference and Parade.
Raised more than 6 million yuan!
This year, with the support of the majority of caring enterprises and caring people, the Torch High-tech Zone raised more than 600 yuan in donations, and the national charity gathered into a warm current of love, warming the whole city. It is understood that since 2004, the Torch High-tech Zone has held and organized charity parades and held thank-you meetings for 21 years, and has raised more than 1 charity1.5 billion yuan.
The team participating in the parade is the largest number of people in history, with a total of 111 parade and performance teams, nearly 4,000 people. This year, the parade team is divided into three categories: the high-tech development team, represented by the enterprise, talent, and bank team, symbolizing the competition for the current and moving towards the "new"; The team is mainly composed of major offices and public institutions, showing the spirit of strong security and vowing to tackle tough problems in the Torch High-tech Zone; The team of building dreams with one heart is mainly organized by **, people's livelihood services, volunteers, and various groups, symbolizing the cohesion and unity of the Torch High-tech Zone.
Zhongshan National Health Base Parade Team.
If the people's livelihood is in need, the torch will find a way". In the past five years, the Torch High-tech Zone has implemented national strategies such as poverty alleviation, rural revitalization, and east-west cooperation with charity, and used the funds raised for the elderly, the weak, education, and other urgent worries of the people.
The empty nesters who have no one to take care of them have their "bodies" to be trusted, the children who have taken a break from school due to poverty have re-loaded their school bags, and the families who have been impoverished due to illness have rekindled the hope ...... lifeMore than 2,300 people in need felt the "warmth of the torch", and the funds raised were really spent, used in difficulties, and saved in emergencies.
In 2024, the fundraising of the Torch High-tech Zone will be mainly used to support the construction and operation of the elderly care industry and the elderly canteen in the district; Carry out rescue and disaster relief, emergency rescue, humanitarian relief and three sacrifices and other related work, and promote the development of the Red Cross; create charitable communities to help the construction of the "Millions of Projects" and rural revitalization; It will be used for other charitable and public welfare projects in the district in accordance with the law to further protect and improve people's livelihood.
In addition, the Torch High-tech Zone has opened an online donation channel with the times. At present, the Internet has become an important channel for public welfare and charitable organizations to raise funds, and online donation channels have innovated the ways and means of charitable donations, greatly lowering the threshold for the public to participate in charity.
The scope of commendation has been further expanded
Compared with previous years, the scope of commendation of the Torch High-tech Zone Charity Walk has been further expanded, in addition to commending enterprises that have donated more than 50,000 yuan, it has also increased the recognition of charitable communities and Red Cross emergency ambulance advanced schools, "three contributions" outstanding individuals and good people in Zhongshan, caring enterprises that actively promote the construction of workshops for the disabled, education contribution awards and enterprises that have donated more than 50,000 yuan for more than 10 consecutive years.
Hand over the total check.
A large part of the funds raised by the Torch High-tech Zone Charity Bank is the dedication of the enterprise. This year, 181 enterprises in the Torch High-tech Zone have donated, and at this event, the Torch High-tech Zone commended the enterprises that have contributed more than 50,000 yuan to the education cause and donated more than 50,000 yuan for more than 10 consecutive years, and 16 companies were on the list.
I hope that you will actively exert the spirit of fraternity and enthusiastic entrepreneurship, and be the 'bearers' of social responsibility! At the conference, Liu Yunmei not only encouraged entrepreneurs to run forward, move towards the "new", and promote the high-quality development of the torch to a new journey, but also called on entrepreneurs to do good and repay the society.