Fan Bingbing’s Heart Ali receives donation from Australian company

BEIJING: Chinese actress Fan Bingbing’s charity, Heart Ali, has touched the heart of an Australian company which recently donated three million yuan (US$460,000) to the organisation.

Lucy Turnbull, the wife of the Australian Prime Minister, joined the actress at a Beijing press conference, where the company Blackmore’s donation to Heart Ali was announced, and a giant cheque handed over.

Focusing on one of the most remote parts of Tibet, Heart Ali offers help to children from the area who suffer from congenital heart diseases.

Beautiful children

“I couldn’t imagine in a land far far away, like Ali, what kind of a world they live in. When I actually visited Ali, I decided to help. The children there are beautiful. It would be hard for people who have not been to Ali in Tibet, to imagine the beautiful eyes of the children there. However, many of them battle with heart diseases from when they were born.”

Since it was set up in late 2010, the organisation has helped over 200 children to receive proper medical treatments.

The actress also thanked her A-list friends, such as Kris Wu and Janine Chang, who have been happy to help.

“All those around me, if they have money, they donate money. If they have talents, they contribute their talents. We build this together, day after day, little by little, bit by bit. As I stand here today, I truly feel that to continue this path, and to do a good job of it, is far more meaningful than any great movie I can make. Thank you all.”

Fan Bingbing is set to perform in the new Jackie Chan action film ‘Skiptrace’, due for release later this year.