Guangzhou accepts clothing donations

Guangzhou Receive Social Donation Workstation

No. 3, Yongbian Yima Road, Duo Bao Road

Contact: 81943697

It's right near my house

I'll take my old clothes there whenever there's a change of seasons

The staffs there are all quite nice people

As to.... Donation program. It's very simple

You can just give your stuff to the staff there

You can also leave your name and contact information if you want

The workstation is not on the main road, so it may be hard to find

You can find it from the road next to the Third Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College (the former No.2 Hospital of the city)

The following is a news article about this workstation in 2001

What is it? A news article about this workstation

Guangzhou social donation workstation has set up a stage ready to accept donations from the public

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February 06, 2001 17:34 Yangcheng Evening News

January 21, 1999, the newspaper has on the daily scattered donations of the public "donations are also troublesome to receive is also troublesome" to do a special report, has attracted the attention of the relevant departments.

The newspaper reported that in ordinary life, you have had such a trouble, the family cleaned up some of the old things, stay useless, thrown away and too bad, want to donate to help people in need, but do not know where to send? -- Located in Duo Bao Road, Chung side of a road 3 of the newly put into use in Guangzhou City to accept social donations workstation will be open to meet every one of the loving public, which also means that Guangzhou citizens daily scattered donations and therefore more convenient.

Love here in transit

Recently, the reporter braved the rain to find the Guangzhou City to accept social donations workstation, outside the chilly, here but do not feel a trace of cold, ordinary Guangzhou citizens for the people in Inner Mongolia disaster area to offer a share of love, so that the place is full of spring. Yan, deputy director of the workstation, said: "This time, commissioned by the Charity Association to accept donations from the public, we are working during the Spring Festival holiday." According to him, the donations these days have been nearly 15 million yuan, clothing supplies are countless.

January 28, Ms. Xu, clothing 3 pieces; February 1, Ms. Li, clothing 40 pieces ...... reporter in the social donations workstation register found that every day there are people from various districts spontaneously come to donate, far from Chigang, Haizhu District, Tianhe District, Shaxa, as many as several bags of clothing, as few as a few pieces of clothing. Or a few hundred dollars in cash. In this donation of goods, money transfer station, the storage is every ordinary person's continuous love, surging is the "help charity, love deep meaning far" atmosphere.

To build the storage of love containers

According to reports, the newly commissioned workstation is converted from a factory, ****5 layer area of more than 4,000 square meters. The reporter saw in the upstairs warehouse, where people sent clothes, flour piles, quilts, etc., the staff lamented: "Every day we are touched, many of the elderly even refused to leave their names, but also often bring others."

The reporter noted that, in the registration book, many people also left a "please make more social publicity", "so that more people want to donate to know the existence of this station," similar earnest words.

"Every year, the city organizes large-scale donation activities, we generally set up a receiving point in the train station yard, but also some of the citizens themselves to send the goods to our organs, the office of the aisle are piled up a small mountain." Guangzhou Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau of Rural Social Relief and Disaster Relief Division Director Zhang Liangcheng said, "But the public usually want to donate, we are very tricky, so we have been trying to improve the channels for the public's daily donations, to create a storage container of love." However, although the Guangzhou Municipal Office of accepting social donations was established two years ago, staffing has been resolved, but due to various constraints such as funding, the permanent address has been delayed.

Donation network will spread more open

At the end of last year, Guangzhou City to accept social donations workstation finally set up a decent "stage", as a permanent site, it will be a year-round at any time to receive donations from the public, there is a need to call the donation hotline 81943697. Also introduced, the workstation will further improve the facilities, additional balers, sterilizers and other equipment. And consider setting up a branch in each district civil affairs bureau in the year, set up a special time to receive, the public daily donation network will spread more open. (Text / Reporter Yu Ying)