■ "Urgent Borrowing of 4,000 100-yuan Notes to Save a Three-year-old Child" Follow-up
【Background】Xie Hongze, over three years old, suffers from severe aplastic anemia. His mother, Wang Caiqin, is a volunteer who has been teaching in rural areas for six years. On August 7th, the "Love in Action" Charity Public Welfare Scholarship Society launched the "Moving Four Thousand People Love Plan." Through a group-buying loan method, it aimed to borrow 4 million yuan from 4,000 people by August 14th to ensure the child could receive timely treatment.
In just seven days, this seemingly impossible task was not only completed but also exceeded expectations.
By the end of the sixth day of the event, at 24:00 on August 13th, the "Moving Four Thousand People Love Plan" had raised more than 420,000 yuan for Xiao Hongze's medical expenses, surpassing the initial goal ahead of schedule. Moreover, most of the donations planned turned into loans.
Today, Xie Hongze will enter the sterile cabin to begin preparation for transplantation.
The Little Hero in the Ward
Xiao Hongze's condition is very serious. For healthy people, normal bacteria inside the body are fatal to Xiao Hongze. Therefore, Hongze is always at high risk of infection. To prevent Hongze from being exposed to more bacteria, the hospital placed him in a laminar flow bed. A transparent plastic curtain separates Hongze from the outside world, and his world is just a small bed.
Hongze draws pictures, eats, and sleeps inside the laminar flow bed. When he sees aunts and uncles come to visit, he asks his mother to cut an apple into four pieces, keeping one piece for himself. If the uncles and aunts don't eat, he gets a little upset.
Mother Wang Caiqin watches her son and talks to him every day through the curtain. Unless she needs to pass something inside or do something for her son, she and her husband won’t easily cross this transparent barrier.
A week ago, Wang Caiqin would secretly shed tears due to the lack of treatment fees.
However, since the launch of the "Moving Four Thousand People Love Plan" on August 7th, the numbers in Wang Caiqin's account have been changing daily.
Not only that, many loving netizens visit Hongze at the hospital every day, including entrepreneurs, laid-off workers, and laborers.
Now, what Wang Caiqin wants to express most is gratitude, "Thank you. Without all of you, our family might have collapsed."
Donations Continue After the Event Ends
The "Moving Four Thousand People Love Plan" was originally a group-buying loan plan. However, many people did not expect repayment from Wang Caiqin's family; they just wanted Hongze to live well.
Since the fundraising plan was completed ahead of schedule, the official website of the "Love in Action" scholarship society issued a notice at 0:00 on August 14th, ending the group-buying plan one day early. But the donations continued. Just on August 14th, Hongze received another 29,661 yuan in donations. "We told the kind-hearted people that the child's costs were enough, but they still wanted to donate, saying it was for the child's nutrition fee," Wang Caiqin said, adding that many times she wanted to cry.
This activity's leader, Wei Shaobiao, said that most of the money in the loan plan came from donations. They posted each donation on their official website. During the treatment, they will also disclose the treatment situation and the use of funds.
According to the statistics of the scholarship society, as of 21:00 yesterday, they received 1,118 donations through three channels: group-buying, Agricultural Bank, and cash. They also received emails from 83 people, among whom 17 clearly left bank account numbers requiring repayment. The total amount of funds needing repayment is 7,200 yuan.
Transplantation Preparation Begins Today
Pediatric Director Luan Zuo of the Navy General Hospital was also greatly surprised by the success of this plan. The hospital had prepared to provide "Blue Ribbon" fund assistance for Hongze, but it now seems temporarily unnecessary.
Luan Zuo stated that if the transplant fee is gathered, the hematopoietic stem cell transplantation should be carried out immediately. Hongze's condition cannot be delayed any longer. Even with the best antibiotics currently available, Hongze's infection cannot be controlled unless a hematopoietic stem cell transplant is performed. Otherwise, there is no possibility of survival for the child. As the hematopoietic stem cell donor, the mother needs to start physical examinations and injections immediately, which will take about a week.
Yesterday, Hongze's voice was loud, and his spirit was good. Today, he will enter the isolation room with his mother, who will also receive the injection to prepare for donating hematopoietic stem cells to her son.
By Correspondent Wang Kala
■ Netizen Comments
On August 10th, I saw the report in Beijing News. I donated 100 yuan through the Love Group Buying website, counting it as my own contribution; on the 11th, I donated 200 yuan, counting it as my wife and child's contribution; today, I donated 200 yuan, counting it as a donation on behalf of my parents. After seeing the statistics from the volunteer scholarship organization (Love in Action Public Welfare Scholarship Society) where Wang Caiqin is involved, the total raised from August 7th to the 11th was 150,000 yuan, still far from the 400,000 yuan target: (I will continue to donate tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. The amount of money, whether large or small, merely represents my heartfelt wishes and blessings. There are some things we really can't do anything about, and there are some things we must contribute our part.)
――― Beijing Monkey Brother
■ Donation Status
August 7th: 400 yuan
August 8th: 4,700 yuan
August 9th: 17,205 yuan
August 10th: 57,567 yuan
August 11th: 71,525.13 yuan
August 12th: 217,458 yuan
August 13th: 59,926.48 yuan
Total: 428,871.61 yuan
Plan-Exceeding Donations
August 14th: 29,661 yuan
August 15th: Still under Statistics
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