HNA Group wins award for charity project
By Huang Yiming in Haikou and Li Yao in Beijing | China Daily | Updated: 2012-09-28 08:06
Volunteers from Hainan Airlines visit cataract patients at a hospital in Zimbabwe in March 2011. Thanks to a charitable program co-launched by HNA Group, the parent company of the airline, more than 1,400 people in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique have undergone eye surgery and had their sight restored since 2010. Huang Yiming / China Daily |
A Chinese company received a 2012 South-South Award for offering financial aid to underprivileged Chinese and African cataract patients who needed eye surgery in the past eight years.
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