Helping ecological construction Small volunteers walk among green waters and green mountains

"The river is straight here, the water flow is smooth, just take a sample of the water here." On Saturday morning, the children of the "Little Water Drops" community at Xiwengzhuang Town Center Primary School in Miyun District, Beijing, carrying buckets and water quality testing equipment, came to Shuibaozi Village upstream of the reservoir to provide a "health checkup" for the river here. Everyone recorded the water samples they observed, smelled and felt in detail in the report sheet. In order to more accurately carry out "health examination" of the river water, the "little doctors" also brought advanced testing instruments - multi-parameter water quality analyzers to detect the dissolved oxygen, ammonia nitrogen content and other data of the river water. After the test, the students came to the homes of the surrounding residents to conduct random interviews and publicity.

"Our school's 'Little Water Drops' club has always insisted on carrying out volunteer activities with the theme of 'loving water, protecting water, and studying water', so that children can be 'little doctors' in their hometown rivers." Zhang Shuyi, principal of Xiwengzhuang Town Center Primary School, said. In fact, small volunteer activities are often seen around the reservoir in Miyun District, and they have become a new force to guard the green mountains and rivers and conserve ecological civilization.

On the banks of the Qingshui River upstream of the Miyun Reservoir, a group of Young Pioneer volunteers carried garbage bags and cleaned up waste paper towels, cigarette butts, mineral water bottles and other garbage on the ground. This is the "Youth Water Protection, Yiqi Pick-up and Run" water conservation and ecological volunteer service activity carried out by Beizhuang Town Center Primary School. Wang Chen, a young volunteer, said: "I am very happy to do something to protect the Qingshui River, seeing the garbage here, I feel very unhappy, we must love the Qingshui River in our hometown!" ”

In addition, Beizhuang Town Center Primary School also carried out a series of volunteer service activities such as "Inspecting the Hometown Qingshui River, The Little River Is in Action", so that the students enhanced their awareness of water conservation and water protection, and strived to be the guardians of the river at their doorstep. Liu Xiaobing, deputy secretary of Beizhuang Town Center Primary School, said that the school has integrated the work of water conservation and ecological protection into the ideological and moral construction of minors, carried out a series of volunteer services, and enhanced students' awareness of environmental protection.

"Together, we do care for the shared bicycle "Little Blue" on the side of the road. We washed the rags over and over again, wiping the cars, and the little blue cars were scrubbed clean, as if they had been dressed in new clothes. Li Guanlin, the captain of the Miyun Two Small Four (7) Squadron, the Yinuo Qianjin Volunteer Squad, wrote in his diary. This year is rainy, and the shared bicycle "Little Blue" is often wet, bringing inconvenience to people who need to ride. More than 40 volunteer service teams from Miyun No.2 Small School actively took action: near the school and around the community, small volunteers worked together to wipe and disinfect each shared bicycle. These little volunteers also assisted garbage sorting instructors to guide residents to correct sorting, regularly cleaning the corridors, wiping down the handrails of stairs, and eradicating small advertisements on the walls...

According to Wang Yuru, counselor of the Miyun Second Young Pioneer Brigade, over the years, the school has been constantly improving the volunteer service organization, from the initial scattered Lei Feng activities to the gradually organized and planned series of activities, and the children have been trained in activities such as "Xin'an Zhuang Elderly Station to Send Warmth" and "Cherish the Beautiful Earth and Guard the Common Home of Mankind". This year, the Miyun No. 2 Small Volunteer Service Team successfully applied for a green environmental protection project from the Beijing Environmental Education Office, and in 2020, the school was awarded the titles of "Capital Learning Lei Feng Volunteer Service Station" and "2020 Excellent Environmental Protection Public Welfare Organization" by the Capital Spiritual Civilization Office.

In the park of Jugezhuang Town in Miyun District, it is common to see small volunteers holding rags, carrying buckets, carefully wiping down fitness equipment and picking up garbage. "Through the activities, I learned the importance of protecting the environment and felt the honor and responsibility of being a volunteer." Young Pioneer Yu Lanqi said proudly. Sun Cuiming, principal of Jugezhuang Town Center Primary School in Miyun District, said that the school has carried out the volunteer service activity of "blue sky punch card, green 'child' line", so that the spirit of volunteer service can be internalized in the heart and externalized in the line, so that children can strive to become the propagandists, practitioners and leaders of the new era of civilization and new style.

At the traffic light intersection on the northwest side of the school outside the Miyun Experimental Middle School of the North Normal University, every morning and at noon, volunteers who maintain traffic order will arrive early. They patiently guide pedestrians at intersections to correctly regulate the routes of electric vehicles and obey traffic rules. These volunteers are the students of the Miyun Experimental Middle School of Beijing Normal University, in the Miyun Experimental Middle School of Beijing Normal University, volunteer service has become the norm, and the volunteers can be seen busy in the campus art festival, sports and cultural festival, reading festival, sports meeting and other activities. Not only in the school, these volunteers also went out of the campus and actively participated in community volunteer service activities, they cleaned public areas, stood in front of garbage sorting buckets, popularized epidemic prevention knowledge, and comforted the elderly living alone, which won the praise of the majority of residents and the praise of community leaders. "In the volunteer service, the students' abilities have been exercised, the sense of ownership has been improved, and a solid foundation has been laid for better serving the society in the future, and it has also contributed to the creation of a 'national civilized urban area' in Miyun." Zhang Deguang, principal of miyun experimental middle school of Beijing Normal University, said so.

The relevant person in charge of the Miyun District Education Committee said that the Miyun District Education Committee has always attached importance to the guidance of volunteer service work for primary and secondary school students, implemented the idea of ecological civilization in volunteer service, organized various forms of activities, and promoted the construction of Miyun ecological civilization. The Miyun Regiment Education and Working Committee carried out the "100 Little Volunteers for Garbage Sorting" selection activity, and the 100 volunteers selected became role models for students and played a leading role in the class, school and community.

Fu Baojun, deputy secretary of the Miyun District Education And Work Committee, said that Miyun District has set up a youth volunteer propaganda group, which uses the slogan of "green water and green mountains, and there are teenagers who are strong" to spread the concept of ecological civilization and promote public participation in environmental protection. They went into schools and communities to radiate and drive more people to pay attention to the cause of ecological environmental protection through the way of "small hands holding big hands".

Fu Baojun, deputy secretary of the Miyun District Education Work Committee, said that the Miyun District Education Committee will continue to play the role of volunteer service in educating people, and always regard volunteer service as a powerful hand to build a "good ecological civilization youth" characteristic education brand. "Let volunteer service help young people grow, further improve students' awareness of ecological environmental protection, promote students to establish correct ecological and environmental ethics and values, and help the construction of ecological civilization in Miyun District." Fu Baojun said.

Text/Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter Wu Wenjuan Correspondent Wang Yumei

Editor/Gao Yan