Chapter 749 Charity Foundation
The satellite city of Venice, Los Angeles, is located here.
Ronan took a bus to St. Florence's sanatorium and met with Tom Cruise who had been in contact with him at the door. The two of them brought several media reporters.
St. Florence's sanatorium mainly treats patients with ALS. Ronan and Tom Cruise come here this time to prepare for charity.
As for media reporters, it is a must-have for celebrities and celebrities.
In Ronan's understanding, purposeful charity is also charity, which is better than doing nothing.
Moreover, if you have a purpose, you have motivation, and people or companies can often continue to invest unremittingly.
For example, Leonardo DiCaprio, whose environmental protection personality has been maintained for more than 20 years and has been promoting environmental protection through various means.
This can be said to be a typical purposeful charity. In the past several forest fires, Leonardo's charity foundation has made large donations.
I don’t know how many times more people do than those who abuse him for show on the Internet.
Tom Cruise wore a well-fitting suit, shook hands with Ronan first, then waved to the media reporter, and walked in with the head of the St. Florence Nursing Home.
"We currently treat more than 100 patients with ALS."
As he walked towards the ward building, the middle-aged male in charge introduced Ronan and Tom Cruise the basic situation of the St. Florence sanatorium: "The sanatorium is a semi-charity nature and only charges very low basic fees to patients. The source of funds mainly depends on social fundraising."
Ronan smiled and said, "Mr. Colt, your loving actions have helped many people. Please allow me to pay tribute to you."
Tom Cruise felt that Ronan had snatched the line and said, "In the past, society and the public have ignored the group of patients with ALS. Ronan and I came here today to help you."
"Thank you." John Colt said hurriedly: "Thank you for your kindness."
This is not the first time someone has come to a nursing home to donate. Whether it is a ulterior motive or not, John Colt welcomes them because the money and supplies donated by these people can effectively help patients lying on the hospital bed.
What's more, today's situation is unusual, and maybe more donations can be absorbed later to completely improve the treatment environment of the nursing home.
John Colt looked back at the reporters and videographers following behind. This was something that had not been seen in the past.
He knew the two people who came here today, and even if he didn't, he had heard of them in the media.
Needless to say, Tom Cruise, one of the world's top movie stars, not only has hundreds of millions of dollars in net worth, but his every move has attracted much attention from the media and the public.
This is the first time Ronan Anderson has seen him, but there are many reports in the media that Hollywood's super rich man is said to have a net worth of billions. In the new Vanity Fair magazine this month, Ronan Anderson ranked first on the Hollywood power list last year!
The publicity effect that these two characters can bring is far greater than their own donations.
Some staff from the nursing home stood in front of the ward building to greet Ronan and Tom Cruise.
Ronan asked, "Will it delay normal work?"
"No, they don't work," John Colt said.
"That's good," said Tom Cruise. "We came here to help, not to cause trouble."
John Colt is not polite: "We have always hoped that important people like you can come to attract more attention from the ALS patients."
Tom Cruise solemnly said: "Ronan and I will call on the world to pay attention."
Under John Colt's introduction, Tom Cruise and Ronan shook hands with the staff who came to greet him one by one and said a few words of encouragement.
Several reporters followed behind and reminded the cameraman to take pictures of all of them as soon as possible.
This is a show, a super charity show with Tom Cruise singing the protagonist, and St. Florence's Nursing Home is just the beginning.
Afterwards, the group entered the ward building and visited patients with ALS.
Ronan also asked someone to prepare gifts, some relatively warm and inspiring movies DVDs that have copyrights from Relativity Entertainment.
These are for the patient.
Tom Cruise also prepared a movie DVD, but it was his personal work.
The St. Florence sanatorium basically treats patients with severe ALS. Most of them cannot take care of themselves and need to stay in bed all year round.
This man has normal intelligence, but he has to go through a cruel imprisonment game that witnesses his slowly losing his life.
Some things are unimaginable when you don’t see them, but they touch people’s hearts after seeing them.
When Ronan saw a girl who was only seventeen years old not only could not move, but could not even speak, she was really touched.
Many times, human life is really fragile.
Tom Cruise gently hugged the girl's mother, but didn't know what to say.
Even people like Ronan who have always been able to give countless reasons for fucking at any time and anywhere can't speak at this moment.
Consolation, how to comfort?
Compassion can only be expressed in the form of money.
This is one of the five major terminal illnesses specially listed by the World Health Organization, as famous as cancer, AIDS, leukemia and rheumatoid diseases!
Ronan thought about it, as if Stephen Hawking was suffering from this disease.
"shocking!"
After walking out of the ward, Ronan whispered: "I realized how happy we are when I saw them."
Tom Cruise was no longer as relaxed as he had when he first came, and his face was full of heavy weight: "Thank you, Ronan."
Ronan was puzzled: "What's wrong?"
"Thank you for reminding me to come and visit them." Tom Cruise said in a voice that only two people could hear: "I didn't take your plan seriously before, I just thought it would be a helping you, but after seeing all this, I realized that this plan is very necessary!"
Ronan gently patted Tom Cruise's arm: "If you say that, I'm ashamed, because I didn't think about it at first..."
Tom Cruise said seriously: "Whatever the original purpose is, Ronan, your plan can really help them."
"I hope it will help them." Luo Nan sighed lightly.
Any normal person will be touched when he sees this place, and Ronan is no exception, but he also knows that he does not understand medicine and is not God, and he cannot solve their illnesses and can only help with money.
No matter what the original plan was for, he really planned to do something, not for anything else, but please feel at ease.
"Mr. Cruise, Mr. Anderson." John Colt walked over at this time: "Let's go and see somewhere else?"
Tom Cruise glanced at Ronan, saw Ronan nodding slightly, and said, "No need, let's not disturb them anymore. Mr. Colt, can we find a room to chat?"
John Colt immediately said: "Of course."
He quickly took Ronan and Tom Cruise into a staff lounge nearby, temporarily isolated the media reporters.
"Mr. Colt." Tom Cruise leaned against a chair: "The situation is more serious than we thought."
Ronan didn't speak, compared to him, Tom Cruise was the protagonist.
John Colt smiled, with bitterness in his smile: "This world is too cruel to them. The whole person is confined to a container that is perfectly matched with the body, including the face, lips, every finger, and every toe, tightly attached to the container. In the container, you can hear and see what is happening outside the container. You have enough time to think or watch TV, but you can't speak or make any sound. The people who are watching them carry them around and carry them to feed them and change clothes, but don't know what they are thinking."
Ronan and Tom Cruise didn't interrupt, they were just listening.
John Colt's words were full of pain: "Maybe, people are strange and interesting at the beginning when they are trapped in the container of the game. Later, they will feel too cold and too hot. When they see, they hear their family sighing for a sad fate. Later, family members and friends are increasingly seeing them. Sometimes the people who take care of them forget to turn on the TV. They always feel thirsty, itchy, lonely, and panic, want to end everything as soon as possible, and they can only face all this, can do nothing, and are waiting to die...."
The whole body is uncontrollable, unable to move or speak, and finally unable to swallow or breathe independently, watching his body be swallowed by disease bit by bit.
This feeling is more than just terrible.
Not everyone is Stephen Hawking.
Besides, only Hawking understood Hawking's pain.
John Colt said again: "This group is very painful, but it is ignored. I hope they can enter the field of more people and attract the attention of the audience. They need the help of the whole society."
Tom Cruise thought for a while and said, "Mr. Colt, I personally donate $1 million to St. Florence's Nursing Home."
"I also donate $1 million," Ronan echoed.
This money is not much, but charitable donations focus on long-term flow.
"Thank you." John Colt hurriedly said, "Thank you for your kindness."
"What do you think?" Tom Cruise asked Ronan.
"Tom." Ronan said: "Do as you think, I will support you with all my strength."
John Colt was a little surprised. What did these two people want to do? They didn't understand at all.
He didn't need to figure it out, Tom Cruise said directly: "Mr. Colt, I'm going to set up a charitable foundation with Mr. Anderson for ALS patients. This is what we planned before we came here."
"Great!" John Colt knew it was very difficult: "I would like to thank you for all the patients in St. Florence's Nursing Home."
Tom Cruise said: "The power of individuals is always limited. They need to attract the attention of the whole society. I am going to hold a press conference for the establishment of the charity foundation. You will need to be invited to attend."
Chapter completed!