In the ceremony of the First China Charity Fair held in Shenzhen Exhibition Center on July 12, 2012, Pendeba Society’s executive director and program manager, on behalf of the Society attended the Fair of great national significance. Many concerned government officials also attended the ceremony including Secretary of Guangdong CPC, Mr.WANG Yang, Vice President of CPPCC, Mr. HUANG Mengfu, and Minister of Civil Affairs, Mr. LI Liguo, etc.
This is the first national charity fair, organized by the Ministry of Civil Affairs along with the Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce together with the Shenzhen and Guangdong governments. With a theme of the fair of “Development, Integration and Transparency,” the purpose of the Charity Fair is to provide a platform to showcase effective charitable programs and organizations, encourage open communications within and beyond the social sector and help increase understandings toward charity work from the public.
The exhibition fair demonstrates all of China’s latest achievements, management and innovative social construction, and at the same time to promote development of charitable organizations and enterprises as well as opening new channels for the public to participate in charitable activities. The exhibition fair is covering 15,000 square meters and will have forums, celebrations, online exchanges and charity festivals.
During the fair, staff from the Society have brought products of specialty and ideas from QNNP, and built a booth full of Tibetan style and traits. Our booth has attracted many organizations, attendees and visitors; they stayed and questioned us about our work and projects in QNNP. With our considerate responses, we felt that our projects and work have been well communicated and in return, we have received a lot of best regards and positive feedback. In the meantime, we also made good use of the opportunity and platform to communicate with other attendees, projects and organizations, enterprises as well as foundations, in order to share with and learn from each other’s stories and experiences. The fair will last for 3 days, and we will certainly take this chance to promote our projects and organization, and seek out good resources to expand our social network. This will surely be of great help to our work in the future.
Meanwhile, as part of “Charity Fair,” the First China Public Welfare Project Contest was also carried out. The “Pendeba Nature Conservation and Community Development” Project was finally awarded a Silver Award after a serious processes including application, first and second round of contests and critical comments from judge panel.
In the evening of July 12, an Award Ceremony was held in Shenzhen Xiangmihu Theater, with the Minister of Civil Affairs, Mr. LI Liguo and CPC Secretary of Shenzhen City, Mr. WANG Rong attending the event. At the ceremony, Executive Director, Mr. Tsering Norbu, on behalf of the Society received the award with other awardee organizations, as well as good rounds of applause from the audience.
As a grassroots community organization from TAR, we are very much honored to attend this Charity Fair of critical importance, and we are sincerely appreciative of the award from the First China Public Welfare Project Contest. These mean a lot to us, which will stimulate and propel us to work harder, and make our path wider and smoother. Hence, we would like to thank those who have consistently supported and helped us along the way. It is with your support and help that we can achieve this far. We will, in the future, endeavor to sow more Pendeba seeds, and help them grow better in QNNP.