Macao Residents Urged to Donate for Inland Flood Victims

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 ◆ Macao Residents Urged to Donate for Inland Flood Victims

The Macao Red Cross Association is calling for local residents offering a helping hand to the victims besieged by severe flooding in China's inland.

To facilitate the locals making donations, the association set up donation boxes in downtown areas and opened two hotlines and special accounts at the Macao Branch of the Bank of China.

It also sent a task force to the flooded areas to provide more assistance to the victims.

Flood situation was covered on local TV every day and students were seen in the street collecting donations from pedestrians.

A number of Macao elite, including Vice-Chairman Ma Man Kei of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and Stanley Ho, a standing committee member of the CPPCC National Committee, donated 5 million HK dollars a few days ago to help the flood-hit inlanders rebuild their homes and resume production.

Serial floods have since June played havoc mainly in Shaanxi Province, Sichuan Province, Chongqing Municipality, Hubei Provinceand Guizhou Province, claiming hundreds of lives.