Han Kun endows and engages in "Broken-winged Angels" – a public benefit project to heal children with hand deformities
June, 2023 - Beijing, Mainland China
Every year since 2015, Dr. Yousheng Fang, Associate Chief of the Department of Hand Surgery at Shanghai Huashan Hospital, would go to remote, impoverished areas in Western China to provide free surgery and treatment to local children suffering from congenital hand defects. This year, the mission has evolved into a public benefit project named "Broken-winged Angels", which attracts enormous support from numerous individuals and organizations devoted to philanthropic causes. Han Kun serves as a sponsor of the project and has contributed broad effort and support.
The project kicked off on June 8, 2023, when Dr. Fang led his team to embark on a journey to Yili Prefecture, Xinjiang, where they worked with Xinhua Hospital of Yili Prefecture and offered free consultation and clinical treatment to local patients with limb deformities and hand defects at the hospital. The medical team was accompanied by representatives from Han Kun and Beijing Changrui Foundation, the sponsors of the project, which subsidized the medical treatment of seven children suffering from different types of congenital hand deformities such as syndactyly, windblown hand, camptodactyly, and scar contracture. The children are from various ethnic groups such as the Uyghur, Kazakh, and Hui ethnic groups. The expert consultations and professional medical treatment have substantially improved the children's health, bringing new hope and possibilities to their lives.
"Broken-winged Angels" has attracted the attention of many Han Kun partners who generously devoted their time and resources to facilitate the smooth progression of the project. Doctors who performed surgery on the patients also created contact files for each patient to monitor their health conditions and provide appropriate postoperative care. In the meantime, Han Kun, along with the project team, is actively planning and preparing for their subsequent activities in 2023.
In the future, Han Kun will continue to work closely with Huashan Hospital and other philanthropic organizations to bring aid to more people in need, making greater contributions to the development of philanthropic social causes.
Han Kun has been an active participant in philanthropic causes. Since its establishment, the firm has actively devoted itself to promoting public interests through various means such as its scholarship program, support to education and talent cultivation, promotion of the growth of the legal industry, and donations to disaster relief. Han Kun lawyers actively use their legal expertise to deliver high-quality pro bono services and invest large amounts of time and energy in educating the public about the law. The firm considers public legal services as being of equal importance to serving its clients, and has established an ESG committee to direct, coordinate, and promote continuous, firm-wide implementation of ESG principles and participation in public services, enabling the firm to better undertake its social responsibilities and contribute to the advancement of social causes.
