The Light of Love Public Welfare Development Center is located in Nanjing, China. It is dedicated to the development of rural education and community public welfare.

Our nonprofit “Light of Love” first began in 2008 and completed the registration process on June 15th, 2013.  It is the first nonprofit in China to focus solely on drug safety, drug development, and health services. We aim to help everyone take better care of their health, minimize cases of drug over-use, and prevent illnesses, and as a result lower governmental expenses for medical services. 

Our organization began working with Transparent Fish Fund in 2011, when we started a free lunch program for poorer children at an elementary school in Zunyi, Guizhou with the help of TFish. Since 2011, we have grown together with Transparent Fish Fund. Back then, “Light of Love” was still a high school club working with other nonprofits. That experience was our first time working with “Transparent Fish Fund,” a nonprofit that advocates financial transparency. During 2011 and 2012, while we participated in TFish’s financial training program and worked with them, our organization began to organize our own finances and categorize and record our budget and expenditures. During this time when we focused on finances, we found a great mentor and began to use a great method to keep our finances in order. All of this proved to be very important to the development of our organization later on. TFish’s project funding application is very detailed, which taught us to be specific and thorough and gave us more experience with applying for funds to complete projects later on. 

In 2012, “Light of Love” began planning to become something more than a high school club, and to register as an official nonprofit organization. Mr. Dai Xianwei, who is the person in charge of our organization, asked Mr. Ping Chao for advice regarding launching a nonprofit. At that time, “Light of Love” was experiencing hardships such as being unable to pay our employees. Mr. Chao agreed to cover the administration costs of “Light of Love” and to help Dai Xianwei start his nonprofit. From this point on, the organization began to develop along the right path. 

The Light of Love Public Welfare Development Center is located in Nanjing, China. It is dedicated to the development of rural education and community public welfare.

On October 16, 2013, we opened a computer class for senior citizens. The volunteers will provide 40 class hours about computer operation to the senior citizens in the community. The curriculum aims to open a window to the world for the senior citizens. Hopefully it will also inject more fun into their lives. 

Before class, our teacher gave an introduction about the content and tasks involved in the class. The teachers then communicated with the students, in order to find out how much they know about computers. Some of the students asked for more tasks.

The instructor and volunteer teacher were in the front, while the other volunteers assisted with other jobs, mainly helping the senior citizens operate the computers. Whenever anyone needed help, the volunteers would respond immediately. The students were very eager to learn and they took some notes. The volunteers were patient with their help.

Time flew by. The senior citizens were too involved with their computers to feel bored. 

When the end of the period arrived, many students were reluctant to leave. They wanted to do more exercises. The senior citizens learned a lot during the period. They not only learned simple computing, but also typing. 

Original article written by Chao Li, translated by Maggie Li and edited by Yanyan Zhang

The Light of Love Public Welfare Development Center is located in Nanjing, China. It is dedicated to the development of rural education and community public welfare. 

On June 23, 2013, we held an activity to visit senior citizens in the community despite the bad weather. 

Volunteers came to the homes of the senior citizens, bringing gifts. They talked with the old people, getting to know what they need. They talked happily and the senior citizens were grateful for the activity. They like our volunteers. We also gave questionnaires to the senior citizens, hoping to improve our services. 

The activity was popular and the senior citizens gave us high praise. Zhang Yi, a volunteer from the university, visited Grandpa Zhang who treated her as his granddaughter. The old man shot a video of her and we were moved. An old man even greeted us with some snacks and showed us some pictures from his travels. We hope more old people have good health and we hope that our project can help us maintain a good relationship with them.   

Original article written by Xianwei Dai, translated by Maggie Li and edited by Yanyan Zhang

The Light of Love Public Welfare Development Center is located in Nanjing, China. It is dedicated to the development of rural education and community public welfare. 

One of the main purposes of several public welfare organizations is to train, promote young volunteers to team up with the elderly to enrich their lives and, in the meantime, to help our young volunteers as well.   These elderly people with empty nest quite often need company.  Need someone to talk to, share their feelings, and doing something fun together to enjoy their lives.  At the same time, our young volunteers can learn from the elderly from their life long experience and seeking for their advice as needed. 

In the morning of 04/13/2013, several public welfare organizations, including “Young & Old Connection” and “The Light of Love Public Welfare Development Center”, held an event in the city of Nanking to “Embrace the Sunshine of Spring, Stroll Excursion with the Elderly”.  This event received broad support from various organizations, college students, union members, etc.  Local radio and TV stations and media companies were also invited to report this event. 

First, the elderly and our volunteers roamed through a beautiful park in the pleasant sunny weather of April.  They carried on conversations, laughed a lot while walking in the nature.  Later on, they watched talent show by our young volunteers.  Some of the elderly also performed their own talent show.  The atmosphere really got warmed up and felt like they had known each other for a long time and got more attached.   When we looked at the scene, it was like grandparents with their own grandkids having a great time together.  What a blessed group of people they are and full of warm feeling.

This spring outing activity with the elderly let’s experience the joy of bringing happiness to the elderly, the genuine caring love among us.  This allows us to realize the need and essence of public welfare.  Together, we should all “Serve the elderly with our heart.  Accompany their lives with our love.”

Original article written by Xianwei Dai, translated by Joe Hsu and edited by Yanyan Zhang

The nonprofit "Light of Love", is a volunteer group established in 2008 by students in China Pharmaceutical University. The group aims to develop health education in rural areas in Western China to teach people to safely use medicine.

In March this year, the Light of Love developing center started to implement its one-year free-lunch project for 55 impoverished students in Lutang Primary School, Xinzhou Town, Zhunyi County, Guizhou Province, and has been in a good situation since launch. The total sum of the fund is 40260 RMB, which means an average 4440 for every month from March to June and September to January next year. The principal Dai Xianwei has already sent Oct’s remittance to Lutang School on 9th October. (For the reason that the school left 97 of 4440  unused last month and there is a seven-day holiday in October, so the money financed this time is 3300. ) Even though it is an inadequate amount for such a severe situation, we know it can also encourage those students. That is why we will continue working passionately on it and bringing it to a successful close with a final report recording the whole project. The overall handling fee is 41.5, consisting of 25 for withdrawing cash and 16.5 for remittance. The bills are as follows.

Original Article: http://www.toumingyu.org/cpuaizhiguang/story/11982/
Written by Yin Wei, edited by US interns Lauren Kam and Isabel Auyeung

Each week, we select and highlight the best photos from our partners out on the field. Check out more detailed updates from each NGO by clicking on its name below "Category" on the right of this page. Enjoy these photos from the month of October!

The nonprofit "Light of Love", is a volunteer group established in 2008 by students in China Pharmaceutical University. The group aims to develop health education in rural areas in Western China to teach people to safely use medicine.

The beautiful fall weather welcomes new students along with crunchy leaves, and our free lunch program also begins to serve them now! Due to important business in and out of school in the beginning of new term, we are sorry for the delay of our following report.

As the program was smoothly conducted, we organized a home-visiting led by teacher Zhao Kaihong. This time, we were concerned about a quiet girl-Zhao Yutian, who has become sluggish and cannot hand in her homework timely and properly. Her downcast condition got our attention, and we decided to go for a home-visit to help Yutian and to learn more about her family condition.