The Yicang Neighborhood Mutual Aid Program promotes community-level formal and informal volunteering using traditional Chinese concepts of community and mutual assistance. The aim of the Program is to build vibrant, resilient communities with strong cultures of volunteering. The Program is active in 83 Chinese cities, with over 800 local Yicang groups and one million volunteers. Yicang volunteers support an average of over 10,000 vulnerable families every month through delivering food, donations and other support through home visits, while also organizing regular community activities such as theatre performances. Yicang volunteers manage regular "Hello Neighbourhood" forums to provide spaces for community residents to discuss local issues, and different online spaces and channels to facilitate communication and requests for help between residents. Outside of formal volunteering activities, Yicang volunteers are encouraged to strengthen community social networks in their spare time. An example of this is the ‘one spoon of rice’ challenge in which volunteers knock on the doors of 10 strangers to receive a spoonful of rice from each resident, that is then boiled as part of a community meal.