"Donors can track every penny they wired to us. We deeply appreciate them no matter how much they've donated," said Sun Lin, vice chairman of the society.
Zhao Yan, a donor from Jiangsu Province who donated 50 yuan to help victims of the Yushu earthquake, said that it is definitely a convenient method to allow donors to monitor the money.
"I just hope the money is really being used on rebuilding projects," Zhao added.
On January 4, 2010, the Red Cross Society of Sichuan Province disclosed the money donated for the 8-magnitude earthquake in May 2008 that killed 69,227.
By the end of November 2009, 1.39 billion yuan had been donated and 1.38 billion yuan had been spent.
The Red Cross Society of China was swamped by a credibility crisis in 2010, when a 20-year-old woman named Guo Meimei claimed on her verified Sina Weibo that she was connected to the aid organization but had somehow managed to live in luxury.
Although Guo and the Red Cross denied they were connected, donations to the organization dropped by 50 percent a month following the scandal.
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