Recently, Wu Huayan, a female college student from Guizhou who was seriously ill and weighed only 43 kilograms, passed away due to illness. The China Children's Charity Foundation 9958 Rescue Center, a private charity organization that once raised donations from the society in her name, was criticized for a series of controversial operations during the rescue period.

And caused widespread doubts in society.

Starting from January 13, writer Chen Lan launched a bombardment of questions on Weibo for the first time, raising three sharp doubts: Why did Wu Huayan not get the best medical conditions with 1 million raised?

Wan's situation has almost never been seen; Children's Charity Association has a large fund pool, and 9958's charging of 6% of the project execution fee is legal but unreasonable and goes against the nature of public welfare.

In addition, Chen Lan said that the 9958 funding issue has long been flawed, and there have been many disputes with the recipients. For example, a child with leukemia was in urgent need of surgery funds for surgery, but 9958 delayed funding until the child died.

Faced with a surging wave of doubts, on January 14, the China Children's Charity Association 9958 Rescue Center responded to the doubts on its official Sina Weibo: In this regard, let's ignore the various "insider stories" that are gradually being revealed on the Internet.

As a national public foundation, when faced with major doubts and faced a major trust crisis test, why can it "self-examine" instead of asking the competent authorities to intervene in the investigation or hiring a more credible third-party agency to investigate.

And the so-called "investigation results" can be announced almost immediately when faced with doubts?

The investigation results were so hasty and the investigation was so perfunctory that people couldn’t believe that this was actually done by a national charity relief foundation.

What kind of organization is "9958"? Let's take a look at what kind of charity it is.

"9958", its full name is the 9958 Children's Emergency Relief Project of the China Children's Charity Relief Foundation. It is an independent brand project of the China Children's Charity Society.

The project was officially established on July 1, 2012.

The hotline 400-006-9958 established by it for help, volunteering and donation is also China’s first children’s emergency rescue hotline and is known as the “120” for private children’s medical assistance.

Checking the official website of the China Children's Charity Association shows that the China Children's Charity Aid Foundation was established on January 12, 2010. It is a national public foundation, and the business management department and registration management authority are both the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The foundation's rescue targets are mainly orphans (including children orphaned by AIDS), street children, dropouts, problem teenagers and other children with special difficulties who are raised without supervision in society.

Information disclosed on its micro-charity fundraising page shows that the person responsible for Wu Huayan’s fundraising work is the Southwest Executive Team of the 9958 Children’s Emergency Rescue Center.

It is such an organization. In just ten years since its establishment, it can be said to have "won numerous awards" and is highly "recognized" in related fields.

For example, in 2015, he won the highest honor in China’s philanthropy field, the “Ninth China Charity Awards Most Influential Project” award; in 2016, he won the 2nd Yangtze River Philanthropy Award and the Annual Yangtze River Philanthropy Project Nomination Award; in 2017, China’s Charity Project Brand List

The top ten ranked ninth.

In the face of major doubts, can institutions convince the public through self-examination?

Article 95 of the "Charity Law of the People's Republic of China" stipulates that the civil affairs departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall establish a credit record system for charitable organizations and their responsible persons and announce it to the public.

The civil affairs department should establish an evaluation system for charitable organizations, encourage and support third-party organizations to evaluate charitable organizations, and publish the evaluation results to the public.

When faced with major doubts or a major crisis of trust, the intervention of a third-party agency is particularly necessary.

This is the common sense of modern management science.

The first thing that the organization thought of was not to actively ask the competent authorities to send an investigation team to investigate, or to hire a third-party agency to intervene in the investigation. Instead, it set up an investigation team on its own without any pain and came to the investigation conclusion at lightning speed.

I would like to ask, what credibility can such investigation conclusions have?

It is conceivable that some of the conclusions of this investigation are only perfunctory and evasive.

As expected, the organization was full of loopholes and backbiters in its response to questions.

For example: Although the reply personally confirmed the fact that "one million yuan was raised and 20,000 yuan was allocated," and admitted that all Wu Huayan's medical expenses were borne by the Guizhou local government, it explained that the reason for not allocating funds was because "the township government and her family requested that they be reserved for surgery and later use.

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In response, Deputy Head Liang of Shabahe Township, Songtao County, Guizhou Province has responded: The government only provides assistance and does not interfere with the fundraising and use of donations.

After the local government responded, the official statement of the China Children's Charity Association deleted the relevant part of the township government.

Relevant departments should take the initiative to intervene in the investigation and exercise their supervision responsibilities. We believe that the lack of strong supervision is the main reason why the China Children's Charity Association and its projects have a series of loopholes and lack of credibility.

Let’s look at the relevant practices of foreign charities.

For example, charities in the United States are divided into two categories: Private funds are generally established by individuals or companies, and voluntarily donate money to institutions and individuals when society needs it.

Public foundations, on the other hand, have no property when they are created and need to rely on social donations. The Red Cross is a typical public charity organization.