"Let me tell you a piece of good news. I have just received a donation of 20,000 yuan! My wife's dialysis costs for the next six months are finally covered!" The person who called the reporter was named Lin Shunde. Perhaps the "fans" of the Southern Daily Weibo account wouldn't find this unfamiliar. Recently, through the Weibo posts of Southern Daily reporters, Lin Shunde's family's heart-wrenching story has drawn enthusiastic attention from netizens. After nearly half a month of love being passed on, as of yesterday, Lin Shunde, whose wife unfortunately suffers from uremia, had raised a total of 30,000 yuan, temporarily alleviating his urgent needs.
"During the farming off-season, I built a small room next to my house to cut hair for the villagers—6 yuan for adults and 4 yuan for children, with a maximum earning of 30-40 yuan per day. Most of our relatives are also farmers, and when my wife got this illness, our entire family was at a loss," Lin Shunde said. Initially, when the villagers saw Huang Kaizhi suffering from such a severe disease, they proposed raising money. Considering that he had already borrowed so much money from relatives and feared he would be unable to repay them, Lin Shunde politely declined everyone's kindness.
After sticking 6,000 labels, he finally earned 600 yuan
Upon forwarding the information by the official Weibo account, volunteers from Guangzhou arrived
After learning about the situation through the reporter's Weibo post, the Guangdong Provincial Public Welfare Foundation for Assisting Orphans and Promoting Education immediately sent volunteers from Guangzhou to verify the situation at Lin Shunde's home in Chenghai and donated 20,000 yuan for treatment yesterday.
After verifying Lin Shunde's account by Southern Daily reporters, as of yesterday, Lin Shunde had received approximately 24,000 yuan in charitable funds.
Sharing to: Welcome to comment. I want to comment. Each package of toothpicks processed by Lin's daughters earns only 5 fen.
In the past year, due to seeking medical care everywhere, Lin's family owes over 200,000 yuan to relatives and friends, and the weekly two to three times of dialysis continues to put pressure on this family. Xiao Zaixiong, a doctor from the Nephrology Department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College and the attending physician of Huang Kaizhi, introduced that including medication costs, such conservative treatment requires at least 5,000 to 10,000 yuan per month. After deducting the reimbursement part of rural cooperative medical care, there is still an average monthly burden of 5,000 yuan. Although Lin Shunde knows that kidney transplantation is the best method, he doesn't even dare to think about it.
Southern Daily reporter Lin Xuna
After the start of the last semester, during their spare time, the two girls continued to work part-time jobs, helping their mother package toothpicks at home. Each package only pays 5 fen.
With no other options, Lin Shunde turned to the Southern Daily reporter for help, and the reporter promptly posted a Weibo update.
"Based on the verified information by our reporter, please spread the word and help Huang Kaizhi, who suffers from uremia." On December 7th, the Tencent Weibo account of Southern Daily forwarded the Weibo post. In just two days, the message was forwarded 322 times, with many netizens sharing, commenting, and quietly sending donations to Lin Shunde.
"We hope more people can help him. Currently, the amount of money received is still a drop in the bucket compared to the treatment costs," according to the research report of the Guangdong Provincial Public Welfare Foundation for Assisting Orphans and Promoting Education. Lin Shunde still owes about 200,000 yuan, and the treatment costs for six months later are still uncertain. Project Director Liang Dongbin of the foundation appeals for public assistance (Lin Shunde's mobile phone number: 15815326895).
To help treat their mother, since last winter break, Lin Shunde's two daughters, aged 12 and 14, worked at a toy factory in Chenghai, often working from 9 am until 10 pm. Due to piece-rate wages, the little girls had to quickly label toys, sometimes even working overtime until 1 am. During the one-month winter vacation, the older daughter labeled 6,000 tags, barely earning 600 yuan, which wasn't even enough for her mother's single dialysis session.
Hope for accumulating small contributions into substantial aid, assistance is ongoing
The leadership of the Guangdong Provincial Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, after detailed inquiries, decided that the Guangdong Overseas Chinese Heart Charity Foundation would sponsor 6,000 yuan in scholarships for Lin's two daughters through the "Treasure Plan" project, distributed by the Guangdong Provincial Public Welfare Foundation for Assisting Orphans and Promoting Education.
"My wife has uremia, and Lin's family owes 200,000 yuan."
"Originally, I really had no way out. Thank you to all the kind-hearted people who helped me!" Lin Shunde told the reporter that seeing many netizens donating 2 yuan, 5 yuan, or 50 yuan on his fundraising homepage, gathering small contributions into substantial aid, he often felt moved to the point of being speechless.
Lin Shunde lives in Qiaozili Village, Longdu Town, Chenghai District, Shantou City. Last October, his wife Huang Kaizhi suddenly felt unwell and was diagnosed with uremia in late December. For Lin Shunde's family, who rely on farming for a living, this was undoubtedly like a thunderclap on a clear day.