Source: People's Daily - Anhui Channel Original draft
On the morning of December 4, the winter sun was shining on the streets of Huibei Community in Wujiang Town, Hexian County, Anhui Province. The 15-year-old Dream Pigeon (pseudonym) and grandma stood in front of the house early, smiling and waiting for the new desk from the benevolent person.
On the eve of International Volunteer Day, volunteers from the Hexian Beam of Light Public Welfare Association sent ten desks and lamps and other love materials to the ten families of students in need who were in the preliminary rehearsal. The little dream pigeon, who is in the ninth grade of Wujiang Middle School in the county, is one of them.
Little Dream Pigeon sat at the new desk. Photo by Qin Zuquan
"May this desk be like a small boat carrying you in the ocean of knowledge, to the other shore of your dreams!" A Beam of Light Charity Association volunteers wrote on the accompanying greeting card. At the new desk, Xiao Mengge smiled particularly brightly: "I will study hard, become a teacher when I grow up, and contribute to society." ”
"Lotus blossoms, lotuses fall!" The little fish hurry up and get in!" On December 7, at the Hexian Maternal and Child Health And Family Planning Service Center, seven children aged 3-4 from various towns in the county gathered together with parents, medical staff, and "loving mothers" to carry out a unique parent-child activity.
After the laughter, the center held a children's health lecture and gave the children free health checks such as bone density and carious susceptibility values.
"Thanks to this activity for women and children, we have saved a lot of examination costs. Thank you also for the care of the 'loving mother', otherwise the three children we and the couple really can't cope with. Ma Xuehua, who lives in Fanqiao Wang Lotus Village, Xibu Town, Hexian County, said. In 2019, she and her husband had triplets. The husband suffered from nephritis, lost his labor force, and the triplets became a sweet "burden". After learning about the hospital activities, the caring people of the One Beam of Light Association took the initiative to contact her, invited her to take the child to participate in the activity, and recruited "loving mothers" to help take care of her.
Triplets are playing. Photo by Qin Zuquan
"This physical examination activity is one of the theme activities of the center's 'I do practical things for the masses', and in the future, we will also carry out the normalization of social love forces to send love and services to more families in need." And the county maternal and child health care family planning service center head He Zhiqiong introduced.
Since the beginning of this year, Hexian county has continued to promote volunteer service work, and strived to launch volunteer service brands such as "wholeheartedly benefit left-behind children volunteer counseling", "hand to hand", and typical volunteer service teams and individuals such as "One Beam of Light Public Welfare Association". Up to now, the county has registered a total of 67,516 volunteers, carried out 3,459 volunteer service activities, and benefited more than 130,000 people. (Guo Tongtong)