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Help the Shanghai International Red Cross this New Year

Posted: January 26th, 2012 | No Comments »

Nowadays in China The Red Cross and other major charities may look a bit dodgy – government controlled GONGOs seemingly full of self serving corrupt officials and secretaries with a love of using donations to buy LV bags.But the Red Cross has a long history in China and Shanghai – here’s an appeal for donations from around the late 1930s targeting Chinese and foreign refugees in Shanghai faced with the imminence of a very cold winter.



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