Two different charitable groups, the Asia-Pacific Health Promotion Association and Tzu Chi

Two different charitable groups, the Asia-Pacific Health Promotion Association and Tzu Chi. Uncle Jia We have two charitable groups in Phoenix, which have been very enthusiastic about serving the Asian community over the years. They...

Two different charity groups, the Asia-Pacific Health Promotion Association and Tzu Chi. Uncle Jia We have two charity groups in Phoenix that have been enthusiastically serving the Asian community over the years. Although their charities are different, they are both motivated by love and deserve praise from all of us. One is the Asia-Pacific Community Promotion Association, which in English is ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY IN ACTION, or APCA for short. Its founder is Dr. Xu Kailai, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Xu Dezhi, a good friend of Uncle Jia’s for many years. Xu Dezhi and his wife are traditional Chinese acupuncturists. In their early years, they worked in Xuanhu, California, and moved to Phoenix after retirement. Their daughter, Xu Kailai, and his wife are Western medicine practitioners. They are from a medical family, and doctors are parents. Therefore, Dr. Xu Kailai inherited the kindness of his parents and the kindness of Heavenly Father, and organized the APCA six or seven years ago. There is a charity dinner every year to raise charitable funds for medical and health awareness facilities for the Asian community. We often see them placing advertisements in newspapers, urging Asians to check their health, and providing free examinations for hepatitis B, high blood pressure, X-rays, breast cancer, and uterine cancer. Among them, hepatitis B is a silent killer disease that is commonly infected by Asians and is the most ignored. If a person is infected with hepatitis B, there is no harm at all on the surface, but if it is passed down from generation to generation, if not treated early, it will turn into cirrhosis or liver cancer. It is also very dangerous for women to get breast cancer or uterine cancer. The mortality rate in the United States is very high, so they need to be tested frequently. The Asia-Pacific Community Promotion Association held its sixth charity fund-raising event at the SCOTTSDALE DOUBLE TREE Hotel on the evening of April 22 last night. I read in the newspaper that the party was a success, with more than 400 participants, including the leaders of our overseas Chinese community, Deng Yuezhou, Yu Wenjin, and Gao Zhizhong. When Uncle Jia received the invitation this year, he had no time to attend due to early commitments, so he only sent a donation to express his approval. The second is the Phoenix Tzu Chi Liaison Office. The charity they do benefits every corner of mankind, regardless of region or ethnicity. In disasters caused by earthquakes, floods, wind disasters, floods, tsunamis, and car accidents, such as the Wenchuan earthquake, Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan, tsunamis in Indonesia, and floods in South America, their teams have been involved in mountaineering and wading rescue operations. With a bodhisattva heart, they immediately initiated all brothers and sisters to donate money, help, or contribute money and efforts every time. Some even ten-year-old brothers and sisters held charity boxes and stood in front of crowded restaurants and grocery stores under the 110-degree scorching sun to collect donations from people and fight for the suffering compatriots. This touching act of kindness was heartfelt. Uncle Jia unexpectedly dropped some good money every time he came in and out. In the early years, Chinese students encountered a serious car accident at FLAGSTAFF in Flagstaff. They were in urgent need of medical treatment, food, and language help. The Tzu Chi team immediately appeared to help them feel warm in a foreign country. In Western society, we often see private organizations such as KWANI, ROTARY, and LION WOMEN CLUB donating to such charities. I hope that one day our overseas Chinese community will follow their lead.