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ICBC & Smile Angel Foundation Set up Charity Financial Service Platform

Care to Cleft Children  Let Them Smile Again

 

October 25 –ICBC and Smile Angel Foundation, a charity affiliated with the Chinese Red Cross Foundation, launched the "ICBC – Simile Angel Foundation Money Link Card" and "Monthly donations to Smile Angel Foundation", a charity initiative designed for Smile Angel Foundation. The initiative aims to take advantages of the new charity financial service platform to help the cleft children from poor families smile again.

A Smile Angel Foundation Money Link Card has all the functions of a Peony Money Link Card, an executive with ICBC said. The card offers all the services for personal banking: savings, wealth management, payment and settlement, retail spending, daily bill payment and personal loans. Moreover, ICBC will donate 0.1 yuan to Smile Angel Foundation for every successful application of Smile Angel Foundation Money Link Card by the customers. Those who are interested can also join the initiative "Monthly donations to Smile Angel Foundation" launched here at the same time. To donate, fill in Application Form for Monthly Donations at any ICBC outlet in the country, use your debit card or current deposit passbook and surrender the valid ID document. Service of "Monthly donations to Smile Angel Foundation" is immediately in force once applied. No banking charges are collected. After the formalities, ICBC will deduct every month automatically from the debit card/current account passbook of the customers and donate to Smile Angel Foundation, according to the date and amount stated.

Customers who have recently successfully applied the Smile Angel Foundation Money Link card and join the program of "Monthly Donations" to Smile Angel Foundation will receive Faye Wong's charity songs CD, exclusively offered by Smile Angel Foundation. The CDs, a treasure for the collectors, are not for sale and only supplied through ICBC to the customers as gifts on a limited, first-come-first-served basis. Moreover, customers who have successfully applied the card and join the program of "Monthly Donations" will have the chance to attend the annual charity dinner hosted by the Foundation and stand at the forefront with the famous stars on the charity work. There is also an opportunity for the customers to experience the "Smile Angel Journey" with the family members, and bring love and care to those who have cleft lip and cleft palate.

The executive with ICBC continued that while moving forward, ICBC strongly believes in "take from the society, give back to the society, serve the society" and is committed fulfilling its corporate social responsibility. In the days ahead, ICBC and Smile Angel Foundation will continue to help more children with clefts through charity and donations, and go further in other areas such as education and spiritual growth for the children, giving them care and concern and let more children smile brilliantly.

Smile Angle Foundation is a charity founded in 2006 by Li Yapeng and his wife Faye Wong, under the management of Chinese Red Cross Society. The aim is to help and offer treatment to cleft children from poor families. At present, the foundation is the largest in scale and most influential charity foundation under Chinese Red Cross Society.


(2010-10-28)
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