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Young American Students
launch a global fundraising initiative
to support the United Nations efforts
to fight against Coronavirus
Recently, the rapid outbreak of 2019-nCoV Pneumonia has
spread throughout China, and has extended to more than 20
countries. WHO has listed 2019-nCoV Pneumonia epidemic as a
public health emergency of international concern. With the
rapid outbreak of "2019-nCoV Pneumonia" epidemic, WHO has
listed 2019-nCoV Pneumonia epidemic as a public health
emergency of international concern. Recently, a donation
initiated by children from the United States, China, Canada
and other countries to support China’s national fight
against“2019-nCoV Pneumonia” epidemic has been successfully
launched. The sponsor has conducted the first round of
fundraising and successfully submitted a proposal to the
chairman of the UN Secretary-General’s General Assembly.
The slogan of this initiative is as follows:
"The virus is ruthless but there is love in the world;
regardless of your age, regardless of your skin color, no
matter how much you can offer, donations for epidemic
prevention, everyone has responsibility!"
The initiative requires all participating young people from
various countries to donate a portion of their gift money
received on Chinese Lunar New Year to the children in the
epidemic-stricken area to help fight against the epidemic,
calling on everyone to "everyone should eat one less
hamburger, drink one less bottle of Coca-Cola, and donate
one more mask to the epidemic-stricken areas!"
The first to initiate this activity is Mia Xu (Xu Ziya), a
student of Senior 11 of Long Island Great Neck North High
School, who spearheaded the idea that "our young people
should also participate in assistance to the
epidemic-affected areas" and put it into action. Mia Xu
drafted the initiative for the Secretary-general of the
United Nations and the President of the General Assembly. At
the same time, Mia Xu invited Harmony Liu (Liu Xinge), a
student of Senior 9 of Long Island Jericho High School to
discuss and co-launch the activity. This is because that,
Harmony Liu had the experience of donating his own gift
money to Africa to fight against the Ebola virus five years
ago.
Then, they contacted 23 classmates and friends from New
York, Canada, Silicon Valley, Maryland, Beijing, etc., and
formed the first batch of epidemic aid team. After the
negotiation of these partners, this initiative for the
Secretary-general of the United Nations and the President of
the General Assembly was formally born!
Elvis Han (Han Chuze), a student of Grade 1 of Wishing Well
Montessori School in Toronto, Canada, is only 6 years old
this year, but he is already a very sensible child! Under
the encouragement and guidance of his parents, he decided to
cancel the original overseas travel plan to give support to
this love relay activity. At the sight of the children
generously donating their gift money original for the Spring
Festival travel, their parents feel very happy! Elvis Han
also creatively painted a picture of "Warcraft Bombing
Coronavirus" and asked his partners to send it to the United
Nations along with the initiative letter. This innocent
heart should touch people from all countries and UN
officials!
As it is expected, on the day the initiative was issued,
Lester Wolff, a peace and environmental protection hero of
the U.S., a 101-year-old senior congressman of the U.S.,
Thomas Suozzi,
a member of the U.S. Federal Congress, an environmental
congressman responsible for Long Island area, and other
officials immediately signed up to support this initiative.
Lester Wolff said emotionally: "You can give little love to
the epidemic disaster at a young age, I bet you can
contribute big love in the future!"
Through making contact with the United Nations World Health
Organization through the UN NGO World Harmony Foundation
Youth Committee, these children received email responses
from WHO New York officials to support the children, and
were provided with the donation channel through Geneva
headquarters.
Seeing the positive actions of these children, Nicole, CEO
of the World Harmony Foundation and chairman of the Global
Future Leaders Organization, said: "The love of children is
very touching, and the cultivation for the quality of youth
leaders shall begin with love."
In 2 days, 36 young people have signed up to give response
to this proposal. Next, after the Geneva Headquarters of WHO
presented the donation, the donations will be collected
together. The uniformly purchased masks and other
anti-epidemic materials will be sent to the front line of
epidemic protection through the UN organizations at the
first time. Donation conditions and purchase lists will also
be released through the media in a timely manner.
Attachment: List of Initiators & Participants of the First
Batch of Love Donation Relay:
Initiators & Participants:
各国青少年通过联合国发起支持“新冠肺炎”抗疫行动
首批献爱心接力名单公布
“新冠肺炎”疫情来势迅猛，世卫组织已将“新冠肺炎”疫情列为国际关注的突发公共卫生事件。近日，来自美国、中国、加拿大等国的小朋友发起的一场捐助中国防抗“新冠肺炎”疫情爱心接力行动成功启动，发起人已经进行首轮募捐并成功给联合国秘书长大会主席递交了倡议书。
本次倡议活动的口号是“病毒无情、人间有爱；不管年纪、不论肤色、不在多少、抗疫捐献、人人有责。”
活动要求参与的各国青少年把自己春节的红包拿出一部分捐献给灾区，助力抗疫斗争，呼吁人人“少吃一块汉堡、少喝一口汽水、为抗疫灾区多捐一个口罩。”
首先发起这项活动的是长岛Great
Net North
高中11年级Mia
Xu（徐子雅），他率先萌发了“我们青少年也应该参与援助疫情灾区的行动”的创意并付诸行动，起草了给联合国秘书长、大会主席的倡议书，同时找来长岛Jericho
高中9年级Harmony
Liu（刘昕格）商量共同发起，因为5年前，Harmony
Liu就有了用自己红包捐献给非洲抗击伊波拉病毒活动的经验。
接着她们联系了来自纽约、加拿大、硅谷、马里兰、北京等23个同学与朋友，组成了第一批爱心援助疫情团队，经过小伙伴们共同商定，这份给联合国秘书长大会主席的倡议书就诞生了！
参与发起的加拿大多伦多Wishing
Well Montessori School一年级Elvis Han（韩储泽）同学今年才6岁，但他已经是个很懂事的小朋友啦！在家长的指导鼓励下，他决定取消原定的出国旅游计划，支持这个爱心接力活动。看着小朋友慷慨地将春节旅游的红包拿出来捐款，大人们开心极了！小朋友还画了一张“飞机轰炸冠状病毒”的画，要求大伙儿将这副画与倡议书一起送到联合国，这份童心应该会感动各国人士和联合国官员呢！
果然，倡议书发出当天，美国和平与环保英雄101岁的资深国会议员Lester
Wolff，
美国联邦国会议员、负责长岛区的Thomas
Suozzi
环保议员等人获悉后立马签字支持。Lester
Wolff感动地说：“小小年纪就能为疫情献出小爱，未来成年后就会大爱！”
小朋友们通过UN非政府组织世界和谐基金会青少儿委员会，联络了联合国卫生组织，得到了WHO纽约官员支持孩子们的邮件回复，并获得了通过日内瓦总部的捐款途径。
看到孩子们的积极行动，世界和谐基金会CEO兼全球未来领袖组织主席Nicole说：“孩子们的爱心令人感动，青少年领袖的素质培养就是从爱心开始的。”
2天时间，这份倡议书已经得到23名青少年报名响应。接下来，待联合国卫生组织日内瓦总部提供捐款呈现后，捐赠款项将集中一起，统一采购的口罩等抗疫物资将通过联合国组织第一时间发往疫情防护一线，捐赠情况与采购清单也将及时通过媒体公布。
附：首批参加爱心捐款接力名单：
Initiators & Participants: |