cel volunteers together with their children visit "lifeline express" eye-train hospital in heilongjiang

31 july to 4 august 2015 - 15 volunteers from china everbright limited (“cel”, stock code: 165.hk) together with their children visited the cataract patients of “lifeline express” eye-train hospital in qiqihar city, heilongjiang and had a gathering with the students in the rural region. volunteers also had a sharing session with the medical practitioners in the eye-train hospital.
 
it is the second consecutive year that cel carried out parent-child volunteer visiting program for both hong kong and mainland staff. during the 5-day trip, volunteers have deepened their understanding on the services provided by lifeline express which cel is one of the main sponsors. also, the kids can have a real life experience for poverty through the visits to the needy families in mainland china, which can nurture their kindness to people, and inspire them to cherish their health and happiness. it was full of fun and laughter during the trip, both the volunteers and their children enjoyed themselves very much.

as a long term and an important supporting organisation of lifeline express, china everbright charitable foundation has sponsored its fund raising gala dinner for 4 consecutive years and actively supports its charitable development throughout all these years.
 
cel is a corporation committed to corporate social responsibility. in the past few years, cel has organised a number of volunteer services including a visit to elderly home, special children care centre, sheltered workshop, participation in everbright project’s large-scale activity and “sowers action challenging”, as well as had the parent-child visiting program to lifeline express eye-train hospital in shandong. all these activities received good response and support from cel staff. cel will organise similar activities in the future and hope that these volunteer services can provide opportunities for its staff to serve the community in leisure time.



everbright charitable foundation
since 2009, the everbright charitable foundation has sustainably sponsored a number of social service projects including: “the everbright project”, jointly launched with caritas family crisis support centre to provide community services targeting hong kong’s middle class; “project companion – professional social workers in greater china scheme”, jointly established with social workers across borders to train professional social workers in the mainland; “everbright teachers’ heritage discovery tour” organised by hong kong federation of education workers to provide hong kong teachers travelling opportunities to the mainland china cities for experiencing and learning china culture and history, as well as many other charity programmes.

for details, please visit: .
 
lifeline express
in 1997, with the support from the ministry of health (moh), the ministry of railways and the hong kong and macao affairs office in mainland china, lifeline express hospital eye-train (the eye-train) first embarked on its mission of light into china’s countryside, as a gift to the people of mainland china.

the custom built eye-trains are equipped with the latest medical equipment and eye care technology. each four compartment eye-train consists of a consultation clinic, a sanitization room, two operating theatres, a recovery room (with beds for patients), a multi-function conference room and living quarters for the medical team. the eye-train not only provides free surgical operations for poverty stricken cataract patients, but also facilitates cooperation between ophthalmologists from overseas and mainland china.

for more information of lifeline express’s services, please visit: .