Dahua Technology’s “Lighting the Future” programme understands that charity is not only about material donations. Sometimes it also requires very personal participation and care. You have to take the human to human, heart to heart action, or indeed interaction, which itself can be the most precious help. That is very much the case with children with autism.

Behind every child that is suffering from autism, there is usually great stress and struggle for the whole family. The pain stems not only from the financial aspects but more importantly from the mind, the prospect of going on daily and without an easy solution. These are the children who have underwent unimaginable pain in silence, and could most definitely use as much help and from as many people as possible.

Dahua Technology has organised a team of over 20 employees to visit the Carnation Recovery Center for Children, a facility that specialises in helping kids with autism. They brought with them, dozens of Lechange baby monitors, as well as many carefully picked books and toys as gifts for the children there. More importantly, the employees were prepared to devote their time, love and patience for the children. They decorated the centre to evoke a mood of Christmas and listened and talked to the children while playing Christmas themed games together. Everyone had a great time and felt needed by each other. According to instructors at the centre, what these kids need, are not correction, but understanding. When they are not able to adapt to our world, we should try our best to adapt to theirs’. There is still a long way to go but Dahua Technology will keep striving.

Dahua also visited the Long Xiang elementary school.  The school is located in the rural area of Bengbu City, Anhui province; it is a typical example of a school that is established-for-left-behind-children under harsh predicaments and very limited funding. During the visit, Dahua  donated to Long Xiang Elementary School, an entire set of video surveillance equipment, consisting of 103 items in total, across 20 categories. These include varies types of cameras, monitors as well as hard disks. In May, 2018, Dahua Technology further donated 42 computers and 40 monitors to the school, which could not only be used for an educational curriculum that is in synchronisation with schools in big cities, but also for treasured video communication with their working parents far away. Shang Ke, the headmaster of Long Xiang elementary school, after receiving the equipment, expressed his profound gratitude for the long waited systematic protection of students, and explained how the computers will make learning much more efficient. In addition to an official Letter of appreciation, Headmaster Shang also made a private call from his personal Wechat account highlighting how “one should work for such a generous corporation with a strong sense of social responsibility (like Dahua Technology) in the future”.