"Xiao Yu, my hair is long again, come and help me straighten it out." Recently, 65-year-old Aunt Feng rushed from Xiangcheng District of Suzhou early in the morning to a humble barber shop in FulangZhong Lane, Daoqian Community, Canglang Street, Gusu District, and specially asked the owner Yu Qiufen to help her get a haircut. Aunt Feng said that she used to live in Youmapo Lane opposite the barbershop, and now she has been moving away from here for almost six years, but she will still return here once a month to get a haircut, "not only because Yu Qiufen has good haircut skills, but also because she has a kind heart, which is particularly kind to our elderly, she has been giving free haircuts to the elderly and disabled people nearby for many years, and she is the 'most beautiful barber' in our minds." ”
Yu Qiufen, a 45-year-old native of Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, came to Suzhou to work alone more than 20 years ago, and in 2009 moved to FulangZhong Lane to open the current barbershop with her lover, and her public welfare road officially began at that time. "The neighbors here get along very well and take good care of my business, but at the same time I also find that there are many elderly people here, and haircuts are a common demand for them." To this end, Yu Qiufen deliberately designated the 15th of each month as her own public welfare service day, and no matter how busy she was on that day, she would take two hours to provide free haircut services for the elderly and disabled over the age of 70.
For some elderly people who are very old or have limited mobility, Yu Qiufen will take the initiative to provide door-to-door service, and when cutting the hair of some elderly people who have been bedridden for many years, she often needs to half-squat to serve them. "As long as the elderly are satisfied, I feel that it is worth it," Ms. Yu said. In order to better serve everyone, Yu Qiufen also applied to join the community's warm cottage volunteer service team and became a volunteer with a voluntary haircut, and she can be seen in the volunteer service activities of Lei Feng Day carried out by the community every March. In the past thirteen years, countless elderly people have been served by her.
At the beginning of last year, due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Yu Qiufen's barber shop was suspended. Careful Yu Qiufen noticed that since the outbreak of the epidemic, community workers and volunteers have been busy every day, carrying out epidemic prevention and control knowledge publicity, on duty at the community epidemic prevention and control point, measuring the temperature of residents, registering people entering and leaving, vehicle information, etc., there is no time to take care of their hair, and other barbershops are not open for business like her, so they took the initiative to ask the community for voluntary haircuts for the staff and volunteers who are fighting in the frontline of epidemic prevention, and then participated in the streets many times. Volunteer service organized by Gusu District. She said: "Although I have not been able to fight side by side with the frontline workers, I hope that I can use my skills to contribute to the epidemic prevention work." ”
Yu Qiufen said that she has traveled to many cities and done a lot of work, and after arriving in Suzhou, she was deeply attracted and moved by the city's cultivation and the enthusiasm of the locals, and always wanted to do something to express her gratitude. "I'm lucky that I meet good people." What impressed Yu Qiufen the most was that aunt Jin, her neighbor when she first arrived in Suzhou, in the process of getting along, she got a lot of help from aunt Jin, and quickly narrowed the distance with this strange city.
"When I got married, as a daughter-in-law in Suzhou, I didn't know anything about the local marriage customs, so Aunt Jin patiently told me one by one and personally helped buy all the wedding supplies." This made me, who lost my mother in my early years, once again deeply feel the warmth of maternal love. "Today, Yu Qiufen has long been deeply integrated into the city of Suzhou and has become a member of the new Suzhou people." I will continue on this path of public welfare and do my best to help more people in need," she said firmly.
Correspondent Li Sidi Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Zhou Xiaoqing
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Source: Purple Cow News