A General Introduction of

Jinde Charities, China

Teresa Yeung,
Board Member of Jinde
Freiburg Germany, November 26, 2008
 Brief History
Founded May 1997 as Beifang Jinde
Catholic Social Service Center, the first
nonprofit Catholic Social Service Center in
Mainland China
Obtained provincial government
acknowledgment in August 1998
Was officially registered as “Jinde Charities,”
April 2006
The Meaning of Jinde
The name “Jinde” is chosen in memory of
the Late Bishop Hou Jinde, an exemplary
pastor of Xingtai Diocese, Hebei Province,
China.
The two Chinese characters 进德 also
mean “to advance in virtue,” advocating
“Practicing Charity, Witnessing Faith.”
The journey to virtue is long and arduous;
yet, filled with hope, we strive on with
determination.
The Present Status
Situated in Hebei Prov., but receiving help from both
domestic and overseas donors and offering services to the
needy throughout China
For the time being, Jinde belongs to the Hebei local
Catholic Church and be managed by the Bishops from
Hebei and some other professionals (among the ten-
members of the Board of Directors, three are Bishops
from Hebei
 Catholic Church in Hebei
Province
Population ： 65,690,000
Catholics ： 1,000,000
(Accounts for 1.5% of total population, Beijing
take the national Catholic's 1/4 )

Dioceses: 11
Bishops: 9
Churches: 554
Jinde
Priests: 400
Sisters: 1100
Minor and major seminarians: 500
 Vision
To build a world with Christ’s spirit
of universal love, to create a caring
and harmonious society attentive to
the least of our brothers and sisters,
regardless of race, religion, sex and
region.
 Mission
Practicing Charity Witnessing Faith
Our Motto

To promote the good tradition of social

services of the Church and to strengthen
the active collaborations with local
Churches, with different strata of society,
and with NGOs both at home and abroad.
To share resources in order to bring
benefits to the people and to promote the
balanced social development.


 Services
1. Emergency Human Aid
2. Social Development
3. Education and Training
4. Scholarship
5. HIV/AIDS Awareness and Prevention
6. Care for the Elderly
7. Anti-trafficking (Women & Children)
 1. Emergency
Humanitarian Aid

 1. Individual
emergency Aid

 2. Disaster Relief
 Help Individuals and Families
Capital Source: With around
600,000 RMB largely from
domestic donors, about 150-160
patients helped every year.
The Beginning of Jinde in the
middle 1990s was to meet the
need of people. Sichuan Province

Shanxi Province
Individual
Medical Aid
 From individual to society
 Jinde was founded for the people and created
by the people, with no recognition given by the
government in Chinese society during the first
year of operations.
 After doing the first emergency relief work
(1998), we got understanding and support from
the Chinese society. The permission was given
by the local government in Hebei province.
 1998: First Public Relief Work in
ZhangJiaKou, Hebei, Northwest Beijing
 Date: Jan 10 1998,
 Disaster: Earthquake, 6.2 magnitude
120,000 people affected
 Funds Raised from China
1.2 million RMB (US$146,341)
 Funds from Hong Kong & Overseas
1.8 million HK Dollars (US$ 220,000)
 Purpose: Rebuild
 Homes, Primary Schools, Wells
 After carried out of the first relief work ……

Jinde was recognized by the government in 1998.

2001:Relief Work in Inner
Mongolia and in Hebei
 2001 Heavy Snow storms in Inner-Mongolia.
Jinde worked with the Catholic Church in
Germany and Austria to raise 400,000RMB ($48,780)
for relief work
 Stages:
1. During January Snowfall: Emergency Aid in nearby Hebei
 2. Relief work in Inner Mongolia and in Hebei Province
 3. Overseas partners
• Caritas, Germany 20,000
• Caritas Taiwan 10,000
• DKA, Austria 5,000
• Missio, AACHEN 20,000
• Misereor, AACHEN 30,000
• Missio Munich 5,000
• Missio Austria 5,000
• Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund 5,000
• Hilton Fund for Sisters 10,000
 Total donation 110,000 US$
 Relief Work in Inner Mongolia

Place: Inner Mongolia

Number of victims: 660,000
BefangJinde Relief Group: Two priests and five Sisters
Local Partner: Inner Mongolian Dioceses
Donated Relief Goods: 200,000 RMB( nearly $24,390)
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I was hungry and you fed me…
 2001: Relief Work in Nangong, Hebei

Date: June 2001

Disaster: Hail Storms
Place: Nan Gong city, Hebei

Donated Relief: 140 Tons of

fertilizer to speed up crop
recovery
2002 ： Relief Work, Yueyang, Hunan
Province

Date: March 2002.

Disaster: Flood
Place: Yueyang City of Hunan Province
Response: Rice: 180,000RMB ($21,951)
Partner: Caritas Germany
Visiting affected families and
Distributing the Relief
Materials
 2003: Relief Work with oversea partners,
provides 530,000RMB for disaster areas
March: Caritas, Germany donated 20,000 euro (160,000RMB)
--ZhangJiaKou of Hebei Province 100,000RMB
--Other places of Hebei Province

April: Donated 150,000RMB for earthquake disaster in

Xinjiang with Hilton Funds

July: Trocaire,Ireland, donated 8,000 euro to help

Anhui (Province) 60,000RMB

October: Caritas, Germany donated 20,000 euro (160,000RMB)

and helped Li Xian County of Hunan Province

November: Jinde donated 2 tons clothing for the victims of GanSu

Province and Shan Xi Province
 2003: Zhangjiakou and other parts
of Hebei: Relief Work

Zhangjiakou region of
Hebei province suffered a
four year drought. Jinde
brought relief goods of
100,000 RMB ($19,512)
for the victims.
 2003: Relief Work in Lu Quan County and Other Areas

He sent me to bring Good News to the Poor…

 2003: Xinjiang Earthquake Relief

Place: Ba Chu, Xinjiang

Date: February, 2003
Disaster: Earthquake, 6.8 magnitude
Response: Co-funded the rebuilding of a
primary school,
150,000RMB($18,293)
Sisters Consoling the Victims (Muslim)
 2003: Anhui Flood Relief

Jinde went to Beng Bu in An Hui Province and

brought 60,000RMB (7317US$) worth of relief
goods to the disaster area.
Sisters help victims,
Anhui Province
 2003: Hunan Province

In July 2003, Lixian

County of Hunan
Province suffered a
flood. Jinde brought
relief goods of
160,000RMB ($19,512)
for the victims.
Food for the Victims
 2004: Guangxi flood Relief
In Sep. 11-13, 2004
Dahua and Du’an counties, in Guangxi
Disaster: Flood
180,000 RMB of Relief goods
5000 victims
 2004: Chongqi flood Relief
In Nov. 25-28, 2004
Place: Kai county of Chongqi suffered a
flood. 350,000 RMB worth of relief goods
were given to 7000 victims.
Partners: Caritas Germany; Caritas Italy
& Chinese Catholics in 2004.
2004: Yunnan Earthquake
December 2004
Place: Zhaotong of Yunnan
province suffered flood
disaster. 220,000 RMB relief
goods were given to the victims.
Yunnan, South China

Children in rural
areas in need of
help.
December 27, 2004, Jinde Charities,
through Caritas Asia and in the name of
the Chinese Catholics conveyed our
condolences to the victims of the tsunami,
and has immediately made a contribution
of 6,000 USD to tsunami disaster relief.
 2005: Hunan flood

In July. 6-15, 2005

Place: Shaoyang of Hunan
suffered a flood. 500,000
RMB worth of relief goods
were given to 10,775victims.
 2005: Flood Relief in Guangxi

In Aug. 9-16, 2005

320 tons of rice

40,000 victims
2006 Xinjiang Aletai Snowstorm
Receiving relief goods
 2006 Joint Hunan/Yunan Flood Relief
with the Amity Foundation
Time ： Aug. 31-Sept.2
2007: July 16-22 ， Kaixian, Chongqing,
flood relief (partnered with Caritas
Germany)
August 2007, Yongzhou of Hunan Flood
Relief
Overseas Partner: CAFOD
March of 2008 Snowstorm in South China
(partnered with Caritas Germany)
2. Social Development

Water Conservation, irrigation,

agriculture, farming, environmental
protection, building schools,
orphanages for the physically and
mentally handicapped, medical and
health services ， and a good will
store.
 Social Development Projects
A water tower for Xintai Qianhuajing Village

1998 ： A well in
Zanghuang, Hebei
Classrooms for Yunnan’s
Zhao Zhuang School
Malu Primary School, Dec. 1999
Guizhou Province, in Southwest China
Wells in rural areas
Equipment for school
for the deaf and mute
school in Hunan
Province, south China
in 2003.
Partner: a Chinese
Buddhist, Lee
Foundation, Singapore
Kindergarten
projects

Support children’s projects

Handicapped
Orphanage
Support handicapped
children projects
 Equipments for Clinics

Support Sisters’ medical

service.
Building Bridges
 3.Education and Training

 Internal Capacity Building

 Community Training
 Academic Conferences,
Research & Cooperation
A Conference on Religion & Ethics
February 25-27, 2005
 Staff Training
Capacity Building

Dec. 2004
HIV Awareness
Training for
Sisters,
cooperated with
CRS, Jesuits,
Maryknolls…
Social Training
With Chinese experts
from Beijing and CAFOD
in March 2005
 4. Scholarship

Grants for students at

Primary Level
Secondary Level
University Level
With around 500,000 RMB largely from
domestic donors, about 600-700
students for primary, secondary, and
college levels helped every year
Students
from Ethnic
Minorities
5. HIV AIDS
Awareness
“Light of Hope”

Promotion of AIDS
Awareness
Training the Trainers

Care for people who

are HIV+
AIDS Specialists’ Lectures from China

Xu LianZhi
Director, AIDS Specialist Unit,
National Health Department,
Beijing You An Hospital
Xu KeYi
Director, AIDS Study Centre,
Beijing Di Tan Hospital
Luo Mei,
Director, AIDS Prevention
Association, Hebei
Zhang ZuoRu
Head Physician, Consultant,
AIDS Prevention & Observation
Centre, Hebei
 Visit Ditan Hospital, Beijing

70 Sisters visited patients at

Ditan Hospital Dec. 8, 2005.

Chinese Premier Wen

Jiabao visited AIDS
patients in Ditan hospital
Dec. 3, 2003.
 Hearing From People With
HIV+

Life sharing with the

HIV+
 Beijing Program

Sharing with AIDS Patients

 In Henan Province Dec. 2004

Giving to families
dealing with
HIV/AIDS

Scholarships for
Children
Orphaned by AIDS
 2005 HIV/AIDS Training
Program for Clergy in Hebei &
Henan provinces March, 2005

Sr. Maura from CAFOD giving series lectures on

HIV/AIDS in Hebei & visited Henan province in March.
Visiting People Who are HIV+ in
Henan Province in March 2005.
Sr. Maura O’Donnell
visited aids patients in
Henan with priests.
Shahe Care Center (since 2006, cooperating
partner CRS)
6. Serving the
Aged
Supporting
Residential Homes
for the Elderly

Offers Training
programs on
Residential Care
Home for the elderly
Elderly Care Training
course offered for Elderly
Homes Run by different
groups and individuals
 High Tech ways to
keep in touch with
domestic donors

High Tech ways to

accept donations
2007: 3rd Christmas Charity
Party
Looking to the Future:
Blueprint of Jinde’s Future Development
 Thank You
We look forward to more
opportunities to cooperate with you!