On September 30th, the renowned US Congressman Tom Suozzi held a fundraising party at the Rooftop of 1717 Penn Ave office building in Washington. World Harmony Delegation were invited to join his fundraising party.
Harmony Liu, a 15-year-old America-Chinese high school student from New York and the Youth World Harmony Ambassador, was presented by Congressman Suozzi “A White House Presidential Volunteer Gold Medal”. As a young volunteer from elementary school to high school, she actively participated in public welfare activities for the United Nations, the community, school and Ask congress TV Station. Harmony also used her artistic performance skills to promote environmental protection and multiculturalism. She also participated in humanitarian assistance and charitable donations, and encouraged her friends to contribute to the UN WHO, UNICEF and UNHCR .
Harmony have been volunteering about for hundreds of hours, especially since COVID-19; and she have been more actively involved in WHF for the assistance of the epidemic-stricken areas like Columbia, Mexico, Nepal, Ghana .
In mid-July, she initiated the “Harmony Global Initiative” to end Japan’s decision to dumping nuclear wastewater into the public ocean in two years. Her action is highly acclaimed and indeed appreciated by the international and local community .
The international media has acclaimed Harmony, as a good example for contemporary young person to pay attention to more particularly in the realms of environmental protection and corporate social responsibility.
In recognition of the aforementioned , The White House Volunteers Office , gave The White House Volunteer Gold Award, which was presented by the renowned Congressman Tom Suozzi ; and was witnessed by the Madam Speaker of the house , Nancy Pelosi, and she came forward to congratulate her with taking photo. Madam Speaker gave Harmony words of encouragement and praises .
The White House Volunteer Award is a national award specially established by the U.S. government , to commend public welfare individuals who have made outstanding contributions to promoting world peace, social harmony, and humane friendship and promoting a virtuous circle of social relations.
The said award certificate reads: “The development of American history is not achieved by individual or some of us, but by the joint efforts of all of us. Congratulations to you for winning this award for charity. And I am very honored to be able to present awards to you-volunteers who have devoted 256 hours of public welfare and social service to our great country. Throughout the history of our country’s development, our country’s development is always determined by those who can condense about ideals and Difficulties are transformed into realistic optimism pioneers and have been consolidated and promoted, and I have not only found that those who are committed to serving the country and society steadily, their core expectation is to make each of us live a better and better life. Harmony Liu, by sharing your time and enthusiasm, your volunteer service has helped us to solve many challenges that we are facing and need to think for a long time. We live in an era of hope, light and love. I mean hope It is the hope for our future development. The so-called bright is the guidance on our path forward. The so-called love refers to the harmony and friendliness of the relationship between people. You have demonstrated the above three points through your voluntary service behavior; now the United States From the standpoint of the people, I am very grateful for your charity service, and I hope you can stick to your charity service behavior, because the future of the country belongs to you!”
As mentioned in the above captioned award certificate : hope, light and love are the ideal and value choices she has persisted and explored on the road to public welfare since she was a child. It is reported that Harmony Liu has been living in a “harmonious home” dedicated to social responsibility and paying equal attention to both Chinese and Western cultures: Her grandfather and her parents have dedicated their lives , to promoting world peace, social harmony, interpersonal harmony and disdain. She grew up in such a harmonious and peaceful environment.
The influence of the “Harmonious Home “, has planted the seeds for her to be forward thinking , and to be brave enough to focus on social justice issues from a young age; and above all to to pursue hope, light and love and encourage corporate social responsibility.
In January 2020, when the COVID-19 , began to spread in Wuhan, China, she initiated the WHF Youth Leadership Committee of organizing of more than 40 schoolmate and friends to fight the epidemic, and called on the youths of both China and the United States, with the slogan “Eat less hamburgers anddrink less water“. These youth from diverse multicultural and ethnic backgrounds, from universities, middle schools, and primary schools, donated to WHO , UNICEF to assist the affected areas . In recognition of this, they received the support of the former , 102-year-old Late senior Congressman Lester Wolff and also Congressman Suozzi.
In March 2020, prior to the spread of the COVID -19 , Pandemic globally , she summarized China’s experience’s. She encouraged her classmates, to call on schools to immediately close classes ; advocated to postpone classes and summer camps thus to avoid the spread of the COVID-19 virus .
Harmony also wrote open letters to : the US President; The Speaker of House, Congressman; Governor of New York; The mayor of New York . Harmony also attracted the attention of the government and schools and promoted the early closure of all schools in Long Island, being one week earlier than the Manhattan school, to avoid student infection!
Their actions were highly commended by many senior officials, including UN Secretary-General Guterres, senior officials of the UN Health Organization, and UN under Secretary-General Liu Zhenmin.
In recognition of the aforementioned innovative activities , Harmony now serves in the UNEP NGO World Harmony Foundation Harmony , as youth Ambassador, and Secretary-General of the Youth Leadership Committee; and also serves as a youth reporter and video editor for the U.S. Congress Web TV station.
We pray that she can go further and further on the road of social justice and equality for all ; and continues to make more contributions to the creation of a more beautiful home on the earth with her own abilities and expertise.
The attendees from World Harmony Foundation who attended the fundraising last night were a : Frank Liu, Dr. Suzi Legget, Founder, Bo Chen, Dr. UgojiAdanmaEze , Esq , Nina Ke, Guantian Chen, ZhichaoZan, Yongchen Huang and Catherine Lu .
世界和谐小大使Harmony Liu荣获白宫志愿者金奖
9月30日，美国著名联邦国会议员汤姆·索瓦齐在华盛顿1717 Penn Ave 办公大厦举行募捐晚会，特别邀请了来自纽约15岁的华裔高中生、世界和谐小大使Harmony Liu，并给她戴上了白宫总统自愿者金奖奖章，鉴于她从小学到高中，作为少年自愿者积极参加联合国与社区的公益活动、用艺术表演宣传环保与多元文化、参与人道援助与慈善捐赠、为联合国与社区做了几百小时的义工，尤其是从COVID-19以来，更积极的参与疫情灾区的援助。七月中，她发起终止日本两年后排放核废水入公海的决定的“Harmony Global Initiative 和谐环保全球行动”，向全球发声呼吁，致信各国首脑、联合国大会、联合国全球传播部，收到联合国与媒体的赞赏，被认为是当代青少年关注环保、承担社会责任的好榜样。
因此她获得白宫自愿者办公室通知授予白宫志愿者金奖，今晚由知名国会议员汤姆·索瓦齐亲自颁发，并得到美国国会议长南希·佩洛西的现场见证，并上前祝贺，对其高度赞扬与殷切勉励。
白宫志愿者奖项是美国政府为表彰在促进世界和平、社会和谐、人道友爱等促进社会关系良性循环等方面做出突出贡献的公益人士而专门设立的国家级奖项。
获奖证书上这样写到：“美国历史的发展不是由我们当中的个别人、某些人而实现的，而是要靠我们所有人共同努力而实现，热烈祝贺你因公益慈善荣获这一奖项，并且我非常荣幸能够为你——为我们这个伟大的国家而付诸256小时公益社会服务的志愿者颁奖；纵观我国发展的历史，我们国家的发展总是由那些能够凝聚关于理想能够并不困难的转化为现实的乐观主义精神先行者而得到巩固和推进的，而且我不止发现，那些致力于愿意稳步推进服务于国家和社会的人们，他们的核心期望是让我们每个人生活得更加美好与和谐；通过分享你的时间与热情，你的志愿服务帮助我们传递给解决了许多我们正在面临并需要长时间思考的挑战，我们生活在一个渴望希望、光明与爱的时代，我为希望指的是我们未来发展的希望，所谓光明，是关于我们前行道路的指引，所谓爱，指的是人与人关系的和睦友善，你通过自己的志愿服务行为，映证了以上三点；现在美国人民的立场上，我非常感谢你的公益服务，并希望你可以把你的公益服务行为坚持下去，因为国家的未来属于你们！”
正如获奖证书上所言，希望、光明和爱，是她从小到大在公益之路上一直坚持并不断探索的理想与价值选择选择。据悉，Harmony刘从小生活在一个致力于承担社会责任、中西方优秀文化并重的“和谐之家”，爷爷与父母一生致力于为推动世界和平、社会和谐，人际和善而不屑努力，成长在这样一个“和谐之家”的耳濡目染，为她从小到大关注社会现实、在力所能及的范围内追求希望、光明和爱，承担社会责任种下了善于思考和勇于担当的种子。
2020 年 1 月， 当新冠肺炎在中国武汉开始蔓延时候， 她发起组织 WHF 40 多个青少儿抗击疫情筹款委员会， 以“少吃一口汉堡包，少喝一口气水”的口号，号召中、美、加、非、澳等多肤色多种族裔的大、中、小学青少儿共同给联合国卫生组织、儿童基金会捐款援助疫情灾区! 得到 102 岁资深老议员 Lester Wolff 与联邦议员 Suozzi 的签字支持；2020 年 3 月，在美国新冠肺炎开始蔓延前， 总结中国的经验，她带领同学们呼吁学校立即停课、倡导把课程推到暑假避免肺炎感染，写公开信给美国总统、议长、议 员、纽约州长、市长、引起政府与学校的重视，促进了长岛所有学校提前关闭， 比曼哈顿学校早了一周，避免了学生感染！他们的行动获得联合国秘书长古特雷斯、联合国卫生组织高级官员、联合国副秘书长刘振民等多位高级官员的来函表彰；现在的她，担任联合国环境规划署非政府组织世界和谐基金会和谐小大使，兼青少儿领袖委员会秘书长，还兼任美国国会网络电视台小记者与视频编辑。
衷心希望她可以在公益之路上越走越远，以自己的能力与特长，为打造更美丽的地球家园作出更多自己的贡献。
来源:Frank Liu
责任编辑:Nina Chen
