Goran Martinovic, a former member of the Croatian national boxing team who started to run a boxing club in SIP in 2016, recently donated 500 masks to SIP Charity Federation, not long after he bought 20,000 masks from Croatia and its neighboring countries for hospitals in Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic in Central China’s Hubei province.

Goran Martinovic is widely known in SIP as a good Samaritan. He organizes charity boxing games, offers free boxing courses to youngsters and donates money to people in need of help.

He encountered a series of difficulties in buying masks from Europe, but that did not damp down his enthusiasm. He called many of his relatives and friends overseas, and kept in touch with the suppliers day and night to follow up the orders. He even flew back to Croatia when there were logistics problems.

“I saw the Chinese government’s fast response to the epidemic and the transparency of information about it. I love the country and the city of Suzhou. I’m just doing my bit as a resident here,” he said.