2022-12-04
Tomorrow (5th December) is the International Volunteer Day, and GX Foundation celebrated with our Guangxi medical team by eating dumplings while delivering humanitarian aid in Cambodia.
The GX Hong Kong team and the Guangxi medical team arrived in Prey Veng Province, Cambodia in late November, in preparation to launch a one-month Cataract Blindness Elimination Project. From setting up field office, preparing medical supplies, delivering Mobile Eye Treatment Centre to the field, coordinating with local counterparts and arranging the arrival of medical teams. GX team started from scratch, and the project is starting soon , we are excited that GX can help Cambodian cataract patients regain their sight.
To celebrate the International Volunteer Day, Guangxi medical team and GX staff prepared ingredients and made a dumplings to share a meal together. Dumplings are a folk food with a long history. They are known as a traditional festive food in China which symbolize reunion. Team head Dr Xu Fan encourages the team to cook together every day while they are away from home. He also hopes that during International Volunteer Day, he can share traditional Chinese food with GX staff to cheer everyone up and to call for more mainland medical personnel to join the international humanitarian aid efforts.
Mr. Leung Chun-ying, GX Foundation Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, is very grateful for the support from Mainland China and Hong Kong, as well as the GX staff’s efforts in Laos, Cambodia and other countries along the Belt and Road. The foundation is working in these countries to launch the Cataract Blindness Elimination Projects and other public health educational projects. GX hope to celebrate International Volunteer Day and use this as an opportunity to encourage more young people and those with aspirations to participate in the work of GX Foundation, to become a down-to-earth activist, to help those in need in the international community, to promote "people-to-people connectivity" among peoples of all countries, and to promote the building of community of common destiny.
Prof. CHAN Ying Yang, Emily, CEO of GX, mentioned that GX will cooperate with medical teams from different provinces in the Mainland to provide a platform for ambitious people in the Mainland China and Hong Kong to participate in international humanitarian aid work. It is hoped that the project can be extended to more countries in the future .
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