Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people have reduced their activities outside of their home, but the number of hospital patients in need of blood has not decreased and the blood banks around Taiwan are now running low. Gary Wang, president of Eastern Group, has long been dedicated to philanthropy and caring for the underprivileged and disadvantaged groups. On August 3, from 10:00 to 16:30, the “Eastern Donates Blood to Show Love” public welfare event will be taking place for a total of 6.5 hours. Eastern Group colleagues and Village Chiefs Shi Yi-nan, Chen Bing-nan, and You Jin-hsing (of Xiuming Village, Xiushui Village, and Jingping Village, Yonghe District, New Taipei City respectively), as well as the residents will be invited to participate in the blood drive and share their love across the community. According to the latest announcement of the “Taiwan Blood Services Foundation”, the blood supplies of type A, B, O, and AB in Taipei and Kaohsiung are running low. Hsinchu, in particular, has a shortage of type AB blood, with less than four days of supply in their inventory. Taichung has a low stock of blood types A and O, while Tainan has a low stock of blood types A and B. According to the Taipei Blood Center, statistics show that in the past five months, the number of days with less than five days’ supply of blood has reached 48, which is the worst situation they have seen in five years. The center is asking members of the public to roll up their sleeves and donate blood to help those in need.

Gary Wang, president of Eastern Group, said: “Eastern has long been dedicated to philanthropy and we have provided help to children in remote rural areas, senior citizens, women, and small farmers, as well as sponsored scholarships to nurture talent. Wherever society has a need, Eastern will be there. After Eastern Group sent out a letter internally and informed our Eastern colleagues of the blood shortage, more than 300 kind-hearted employees immediately signed up to donate blood. This has consistently been the culture and spirit of Eastern and I was extremely moved! Thank you to the Eastern members, public, and colleagues for your long term service to public welfare together with Eastern Group! Donate a bag of blood and save a life!” We would like to thank everyone’s selflessness, if you donate 250cc of blood or more on the day of the blood drive, Eastern will provide a thank-you gift that includes A-Yi Abalone Chicken Soup, Natural Beauty STREMARK Physical Sunscreen trial pack, and 300 ET coins (with a total value of NT$1,170). Eastern will also share our good products with our good neighbors at employee prices.

Eastern continues to show its love tirelessly. In addition to the regular care program for senior citizens, the “Eastern Shows Love, Provides Accessible Care” donation ceremony was held in June where President Gary Wang of Eastern Group donated two long-term care vehicles to the Taipei City Government, and Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je attended in person to accept the donation. Eastern has also long provided assistance and care to disadvantaged children in remote rural areas, frontline healthcare workers. and other disadvantaged groups. Eastern Charity Foundation has donated NT$300,000 to both the Taiwan Catholic Foundation of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia and St. Camillus Center for Intellectual Disability. During the pandemic, Eastern Natural Beauty donated the medical-grade STREMARK skincare products valued at over NT$10 million as pandemic-prevention gifts to frontline healthcare workers and the new immigrant mothers of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation. Eastern Group will continue to call on all its members to send their love to every corner of the country through practical actions.