Society

School still waiting for Jackie Chan's donation

By Yan Weijue (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-09-03 13:55

A-list film star Jackie Chan has failed to keep his promise to donate to a school in quake-hit Beichuan, in Southwest China's Sichuan province, Shanghai Overseas Chinese News reported Thursday.

Jackie Chan paid a visit to Beichuan middle school on May 11, 2009, for the one-year anniversary of the Wenchuan quake on May 12, 2008, and announced he would contribute part of the box office income from his film – Little Big Soldier - opening February 2010, for the school's rehabilitation project.

However, months after the film's debut and a total 153 million yuan ($22.5 million) box office income later, the school said it hasn't received a penny from Chan. And the star's name isn't included in the donor list of the Overseas Chinese Economic and Culture foundation of China, which is overseeing the school's rehabilitation project.

"We haven't received the money yet," said a person from the foundation on September 1. "And we once wrote letters to Mr. Chan asking for it, but he gave no response."

"It seems we have not made donations to Beichuan middle school," a woman with the Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation in Beijing said in a telephone interview.