Jinde Charities, in collaboration with Caritas Germany, supplies tents to disaster areas
From Faith website: Jinde webpage (May 23) In accordance with the urgent needs of the disaster areas, Jinde Charities, in active collaboration with Caritas Germany and the government of Germany, will supply Sichuan disaster areas with big sized civilian tents of high quality.
Mr. Wolfgang of Caritas Germany, stationed in Jinde disaster office of Chengdu, told Faith reporters: “The 4,050 tents worth 8,700,000 RMB are contributions from Caritas Germany and other Caritas and the government of Germany. Our original plan of May 21 was to deliver the tents in two batches, on May 24 and May 26 but in order to facilitate the procedure of hand-over and distribution to the victims; the two chartered planes will now arrive together at Chengdu airport on May 27.”
Fr. Paul Han, vice-director of Jinde said, “On the same day, May 27, the tents will be transported to the disaster areas and distributed to the victims with the help of the Disaster Relief Command Headquarter in Sichuan” Fr. Han also added “The authorities respected and accepted Jinde’s proposal of distribution, 1000 tents to Dujiangyan, 800 to Luoshui town of Shifang city, 550 to Mianzhu city and 800 to An County.”
The Disaster Relief Command Headquarter at Sichuan made the following remark: “Several millions of people are homeless, living in temporary set-up tents and it is raining all these days. It is really a timely intervention for Jinde Charities and its partners to supply these tents as they definitely will benefit the victims.”
Ms. Hu Li Min of Jinde Disaster Relief Office in Chengdu told Faith reporters that there would be a short hand-over ceremony in Sichuan Charity Association Headquarter field office and the respective representatives will be present.
Here is a news clip from a news program in Germany reporting about the work of Caritas International and Jinde Charities in the quake affected areas in Sichuan Province.