New Hospitals

In cooperation with our long time partner Fudan University Children's Hospital, Hairy Crab Charities is expanding it's reach to two more hospitals, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi and Tai An in Shandong. Joe Tatelbaum and Stew Beck of Hairy Crab Charities met with representatives of all three hospitals to discuss how we'll support their growth plans. Our tournament fundraising will make several major purchases in 2008 for the two new hospitals, including a blood analysis machine and an ambulance.

A Record Setting 2008

Fellow Crustaceans,

The 2008 Hairy Crab Invitational was a tremendous success. The weather was great. The events were fun. Everyone seemed to really have a good time.

In the end, we raised over RMB789,000 ($US 114,000) for Hairy Crab Charities, exceeding our target by RMB89,000 ! Over the past three years we have gone from raising RMB350,000 to RMB565,000 to this year's total of over RMB789,000. The year on year increases have been outstanding. We are planning an event for later this Summer to celebrate the Crab and to help push this year’s giving to over RMB800,000.

We will put this money to good use. Please have a look at our website and you will be able to see what our plans are for the hospitals for the coming year.

This whole project is a home-grown charity. It was started on a very small scale by one person and each year more people have volunteered their time towards making it more and more successful. The charity has no expenses. What we raise goes to equipment for the hospitals and to training for the staff involved.

You helped to make this succesful. Your donation and your support were critical to our being able to raise funds designed to help children in need of critical care.

Please let me know if you would like to visit the hospital and I will be happy to take you there to show you the equipment and the training that we provided. It is a moving experience---seeing really sick kids being helped by something that you provided. If you would like to volunteer to help out, please let me know. All interested parties welcome.

On behalf of the children whom you have helped, on behalf of the people who worked on the event and on behalf of people the world over that agree that helping is better than watching and complaining, we say Thank You and Congratulations.

Sincerely,

Joe Tatelbaum and the Hairy Crab Organizing commitee.

Hairy Crab Charities

Since its inception in 2000, thanks to the generous support of our players, sponsors and partners, Hairy Crab Charities has raised over RMB 2,800,000 for the Fudan University Children’s Hospital. These funds have been used in the purchase of medical equipment including a group ventilator, a central monitoring system, a transport incubator, computer systems, professional staff training and a fully equipped ambulance.

Fudan University Children's Hospital has made remarkable strides reducing their ICU infant mortality rate 5x while serving 5x the patients since 2000. They've provided us with a three year plan to improve facilities and equipment as well as extend their reach to other hospitals in China. Through close cooperation and continued donations, Hairy Crab Charities will help these hospitals improve care for sick children in China.