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CEO volunteer
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Wu Yan
A FORTNIGHT ago, Feng Changhong, the female chief executive officer of Shenzhen 100-Online Network Communication Co Ltd, became the only recepient in Guangdong Province of the "Award for Young Volunteers Actions" given by the China Young Volunteers Association in Beijing.
Feng has donated 3,000 hours of her time since she formally joined the ranks of local volunteers in 1994.
One day in 1994, a storm hit the city. Worried about the machines in the paging company where she was a programmer, she had to struggle through neck-deep floodwaters to get to work. After that, since the power had been cut off, she had to climb to the 20th floor where her company was. Upon reaching the office, she found someone had arrived long before her. It was a young woman with an artificial leg, who was already hard at work connecting paging clients. Asked how she had managed the trip, the disabled woman answered that she, too, had gone through the neck-deep water and 20-storey staircase as well.
Feng was moved to tears. At the same time, it occurred to Feng that with sound hands and brains, many disabled people could be employed as paging switchers. She told herself that helping the disabled support themselves was the best way to help them gain an equal footing in life.
Feng's idea produced an immediate result. Her company hired 30 disabled people. The company's move was widely covered by media across the country, and Feng's paging station was given a new name: Loving Heart.
"When you give people roses, the fragrance is left in your hands," Feng said of her charity. "Build your virtue upon the accumulation of good deeds" is a Chinese proverb that Feng values most.
Now, as a CEO, Feng has set up a unique rule within her company that every employee must volunteer. And she requires herself to spread the spirit of volunteerism.
The good deeds that Feng has done are numerous, and so are the honours she has received. "I am happy because everybody is happy," Feng said, summing up her voluntary spirit.
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