Shanghai Golfers Club Charities
Gift of Life
The Committee of the SGC would like to introduce you to Master CHEN Yong Hao.
This little guy is from the Henan region of China and at birth he was sadly diagnosed with a serious heart condition that will limit his growth and will surely shorten his life. He is now almost 2.5 years old and comes from a extremely poor farming family. The family and relatives have spent their life saving keeping him alive.
At the 2007 Annual General Meeting, the 2008 Committee of the SGC were given the responsibility to working with the Shanghai Rotary Club's medical team to locate a child who is in desperate need of a Heart Operation. This has been completed and during April 2008, members of the SGC committee will accompany Master Chen with his family to the Shanghai Chest Hospital for his major operation.
All going well, we will be reporting to you within a month that we have given this child a fresh start in life and in fact, have SAVED his life. This is a serious operation and post care is critical. We will assist the child and family through this ordeal in conjunction with Shanghai Rotary. The selection process was involved and Master Chen had to receive "chops" (approvals) from his village committee, his province local Government office and then the Shanghai Chest Hospital. This has been completed and SGC have the records on file. The SGC are donating Rmb25,000 to complete this task
Thank you for assisting in saving this child's life - More updates later.
(According to the China Daily, there are over 300,000 children with congenital heart defects in China.)
