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One more week left for BTAP & China Charity Auction 2012 – act now!

20 Feb 2013 by ReggieHo
There is only about one more week to go before the final phase of Business Traveller Asia-Pacific and China Charity Auction 2012 wraps up, so if you haven't already, act now and visit www.businesstraveller.asia/auction to place your bid! For the seventh year running, we are partnering with Chi Heng Foundation in the annual Silent Auction to raise funds to support initiatives that help children and youngsters in China whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS. In many impoverished villages of China, families are desperate to make ends meet. Many parents of these households, lured by the promise of extra income, donate blood at illegal blood collection facilities where needles are reused without property sterilisation. Many villagers, as a result, have contracted HIV, and as they have no access to advanced medical care, they quickly develop AIDS and get really sick. Some of them eventually lose their lives and their children become orphans. During its 2011-12 programme, Chi Heng sponsored 9,000 of these youngsters to provide them with living costs and, more importantly, education. This year, the organisation is hoping to increase the number to 10,000, mostly through expanding its reach beyond central China into southwestern parts of the country. One of the children in need given a winter jacket by a volunteer of Chi Heng Chi Heng also plans to expand its Reading Room project by spending half of the funds raised in 2012-13 on two new facilities in central China. One of these is going to be the biggest ever, and it is set to break ground some time in 2013. At one of the summer camps organised by Chi Heng for affected children The packages featured in the auction have been generously donated by industry friends and partners. As we usher in the Chinese New Year of the Snake, let's all come together and do our best to give these young souls a better future!
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