Caption: Photography by Wang Wei at the charity performance (the same below)
"The 17th World Autism Awareness Day in 2024 - sponsored by the Red Culture Inheritance Professional Committee of the Shanghai Situation Policy Education Research Association and the Shanghai Voluntary Service Jinlan Foundation —Shanghai old artists, veteran cadres, foreign friends and autistic children shared the stage for a charity performance," which was held yesterday afternoon at the CPPCC Auditorium.
The theme of the performance is "Love Gathers in Shanghai, Stars and Hearts Come Together". The veteran choir of the Shanghai New Fourth Army History Research Association kicked off the performance with a song "Devotion of Love". The dance "Fuwa Blessing" performed by the Malanhua Children's Art Troupe of the China Welfare Society Children's Art Theater, the performance and singing by students from the Shanghai Singapore Expatriate Children's School, and every other program sent good wishes to autistic children.
What moved the audience was that the famous director Shi Xiaohua founded Shanghai's first Xing'an Xing Xingxing Children's "Lighthouse" drama club that uses drama to "treat" autism. Over the past year, Director Shi has personally coached and rehearsed with autistic children, and has blazed a new path in educational practice for autistic children. On the stage, a group of autistic children performed to show people their tenacious, progressive and positive psychological character and mental outlook.
The organizer said that holding such a charity performance will help all parties in society understand more about the family confusion of autistic children, pay more attention to the rehabilitation treatment of autistic children, care more about the education and growth of autistic children, and more Many places support social charities that help children with autism recover. The successful holding of the "Love Gathers in Shanghai, Stars and Hearts Come Together" charity performance also marked the city's charity cause of caring for the growth and education of autistic children reaching a new height.
Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Wei
