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Brits Abroad Shanghai – Red, White, & Blue Charity Ball for Wheelchair Foundation

April 23, 2011 – Shanghai

Celebrate for the Royal Wedding

The Union Jacks were flying high in more ways than one at The Fairmont Peace Hotel in the Peace Hall Ballroom on Saturday Night at our Red White & Blue Ball. Ball-goers entered into the spirit of the occasion with an array of ball gowns and jackets, which amply qualified, and in some cases over qualified, for the most appropriate attire for the evening – it was all in good fun and in celebration of the forthcoming marriage of William & Kate.

The happy couple put in an appearance, and were very obliging, standing for over five hours being photographed with all and sundry before being carted off in the wheelchair. The special wheelchair had been supplied by the Wheelchair Foundation – beneficiary of the funds raised on the night – £££££ and our people are still counting.

VIEWING THE WORLD FROM ONE METER HIGH….

Silent Auction Items

500 rmb buys and delivers one wheelchair – this was the message on the night and the reason for raising funds. The Wheelchair Foundation provided this specially prepared wheelchair so that guests could see exactly where their money would be spent.

A full update will be featured in our news in due course to let you know exactly where, when and how many wheelchairs have been delivered. Angie Shen, Chief Representative China (below) addressing guests – explaining the work of the Wheelchair Foundation. Kathy Li, PR Manager, also attended, and two volunteers helped to sell the raffle tickets. Kind-hearted sponsors donated items for the raffle and the silent auction. Fund-raising silent auctioneers provided even more items, and organized and arranged the sealed bidding on the night.

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Redchair Day at the Expo

“Seeing the Expo from 1-Meter High” Launching Ceremony in China

May 16th is Helping Disabled People Day in China, and it marked the launch of Redchair’s “Seeing the Expo from 1-meter high” Expo program in Jing’an Park.

Redchair’s “Seeing the Expo from 1-meter high” program was launched by the Wheelchair Foundation in 2009, and since then a number of enterprises have participated in the love relay. During the World Expo, Tyco Electronics led the way towards realizing the disabled’s dreams of visiting the Expo by donating 450 Redchairs as well as encouraging employees to volunteer to accompany the disabled on visits to the Expo.

Guests invited to the ceremony included the Deputy Director of the Expo Volunteers Department and Party Secretary of the Communist Youth League Shanghai, Ms. Pan Min; the Deputy Secretary-general of Shanghai Volunteers Association, Mr. Chen Zhenmin; the Vice President of Tyco Electronics, Mr. Gordon Hwang; Executive Chairman of the Wheelchair Foundation, Mr. Steve Beinke; the President of Amcham Shanghai, Ms. Brenda Foster; representatives from Touch Media, Jing’an District; disabled persons and about 100 Tyco Electronics employee volunteers. The ceremony was hosted by Redchair program spokesman, Jin Jing, and Shanghai’s famous TV host, Shi Yan.

When the red silk covering the baton gradually opened, Ms. Pan Min, granted the first baton to a representative of Tyco Electronics. Accompanied by the volunteers, fifty elderly and disabled people sitting on wheelchairs set out to the Expo Park by bus or the subway’s Line 7.

With support from subway volunteers and Expo volunteers, 100 Tyco Electronics volunteers accompanied the elderly and disabled for about 10 hours. Together, using public transportation and wheelchair accessible facilities to visit Expo pavilions. The program participants and volunteers had a great time socializing, eating lunch, and seeing the fascinating sites and pavilions at the Expo.

When visiting the Life and Sunshine Pavilion, one of our special guests, Ji Miwa agreed to an interview by CCTV, ”I’m happy to visit this pavilion, a high-technology lifestyle can improve our disabled people’s quality of life, and with this we can better integrate into the society.”

Both the participants and volunteers enjoyed themselves, and the Wheelchair Foundation looks forward to more community groups joining the Redchair Program to allow more disabled people to enjoy the thrill of “seeing the Expo from 1-meter high

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Wheelchairs To Help Chinese Locals See Expo

THE Wheelchair Foundation will donate 2,010 wheelchairs to local neighborhoods to help the disabled visit the 2010 World Expo, officials yesterday.

Anyone who needs a wheelchair can borrow one from the neighborhood committee for free during the Expo, the global charity said.

The project aimed to allow more disabled people and seniors to have the same opportunity as everybody else to see the Expo, officials said.

Also yesterday, city Mayor Han Zheng met Kenneth E. Behring, the foundation`s founder and chairman, and expressed his appreciation for the foundation`s long-term contribution to the city`s disabled people.

The foundation has donated more than 260,000 wheelchairs to the city.

Last year Behring was made an honorary citizen of Shanghai, the highest title awarded by the municipality to foreigners who make an outstanding contribution to the city`s development.

SOURCE: Meet In Shanghai

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Success Story From China

“Without the help and care of the Wheelchair Foundation and the Shuangliu County Disabled Persons’ Federation, I’m afraid that I would spend the rest of my life in the bed and never go out.” ,“I am so appreciative that the Wheelchair Foundation and Shuangliu County DPF provided me with a wheelchair to give me mobility. Now I really feel that life is great again .”…… These words are the inner confessions from the bottom of the heart from Zheng Wen Bin, a disabled 90-year-old woman living in Shuangliu County, Chengdu City.

image001In 2009, Zheng Wen Bin lost her walking function for age and infirmity as well as lost her eyesight more ten years ago due to an eye disease. She can only sleep in bed and wait for her children’s care. Zheng Wen Bin moaned and groaned all day long and lost the confidence of life in that she considers herself as a heavy burden of her children.

As soon as getting word about Zheng Wen Bin’s situation, the Shuangliu County DPF sent the missionary to her family to console and comfort her. Besides that, a new wheelchair was given to Zheng Wen Bin as a courage of life. Sitting in the wheelchair, Zheng Wen Bin gave thanks to the missionary repeatedly with her eyes full of moving tears.

In 2009, with the support of the Chengdu Disabled Persons’ Federation and the Wheelchair Foundation, the Shuangliu County DPF has distributed 130 wheelchairs to the disabled in total.

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Success Story From China

Zeng Ling Hui is a physically disabled woman living in Fulong Village Pengzhou City which is the harder-hit area of the 5.12 Earthquake in 2008. Unfortunately, she cannot afford a common wheelchair due to poverty and the only thing she can do is sit at home. The serious damage of a facility in the village caused by the disaster made Zeng Ling Hui’ s life even more difficult and the access of communications between her and the outside world has been cut off thoroughly.

image001But now she can go out freely to the vivid outside world in the wheelchair sent free by the Chengdu Disabled Persons’ Federation. She can often go downtown or to the market, talk with the villagers and witness the change around her. The wheelchair gives her the possibility to enjoy the bright sunshine, the colorful world and the warm love as well as improve the quality of her life.

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