Special Feature: Pennies and Dimes

Many years back, I remember reading about Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng, the James Bond girl from Malaysia,making a RM10,000 donation for some causes. That was of course, a big amount by Malaysian standard. When famine hit North Korea in the late nineties, a student collecting donation in a school, complained that a religious teacher just gave a meager 20 cent and the latter even tried to hide the coin with his fingers when he dropped it into the donation box. Read on about the Sichuan Earthquake and decide on whether the amount of donation is important...



People are rushing to donate money. Many rich people donated in millions, but no one can match Xu Chao(徐超), 60, on the right (in this case, above). He is a homeless in Nanjing, 1000 miles from the disaster area. He saw the news and went to donate 5 Yuan in the morning. He said people in the disaster area were worse off than him because their lives were threatened. He came back in the afternoon, donated another 100 Yuan ($14). He explained that all he had were pennies and dimes, and he didn’t want to waste volunteer workers’ time to count them, so he went to the bank to change everything he had into one big bill. This is from a man who doesn’t have money to buy food for himself.

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