Children and young people are the flowers of the motherland, the future of the country and the hope of the nation. The growth of children is inseparable from the care and help of all sectors of society, the China Children and Teenagers Foundation was established in 1981, built because of the needs of the party's children's cause, with the development of the party's children's cause, and with the reform and opening up process at the same pace. Recently, the China Children and Teenagers Foundation released a series of short videos for the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Association, which recorded its 40-year glorious journey from the perspectives of children's education and growth, health and rescue, safety and rescue, care for left-behind and distressed children, family education and family style advocacy, and showed the fruitful results of the vigorous development of children's cause under the leadership of the Party.
The short video with the theme of "Spring Buds Bloom, Achieve Girls' Dreams" tells about the charity project "Spring Bud Project" nurtured by UNICEF. The Spring Bud Project was born in 1989 to help girls who have dropped out of school return to school. Over 30 years, more than 3.86 million girls have benefited. With the support of the China Children and Teenagers Foundation, they have gone further and started a more exciting life. In the video, Lan Zhilin, the first female doctor of the Hongyao ethnic group in Rongshui, Guangxi, recalls that the "Spring Bud Project" gave her the opportunity to carry her school bag to school and grow into a doctor. From remote rural areas to higher education, to broaden horizons around the world, to learn traditional skills such as intangible cultural heritage in society... China Children and Teenagers Foundation's help for girls to keep up with the development of the times and the new needs of growth, further study or master a skill, from financial support to the inner activities of caring for girls, "Spring Bud Project" continues to enrich the connotation of the form, pay attention to the spiritual level of communication and companionship, so that a "flower bud" not only get rid of the lack of materials, but also have the courage and belief of self-confidence and self-improvement.
Rural left-behind children, orphans and disabled children, and children affected by natural disasters and emergencies have always been the focus of UNICEF's care and assistance. UNICEF has successively launched public welfare projects such as "Happy Home for Children", "HELLO Kids" and "Constant Love Action", which carry out rescue actions for children's families affected by the Wenchuan earthquake and the new crown pneumonia epidemic, so as to serve the healthy and happy growth of vulnerable children, promote the happiness and well-being of their families, and make sustained efforts to let vulnerable children and their families further feel the care of the party and the warmth of the socialist family. The short video "Warm Children's Hearts, Share Happy Childhood" focuses on the implementation of the "Happy Home for Children" public welfare project. Under this project, UNICEF uniformly allocated books, musical instruments, educational toys and other cultural and sports supplies for rural left-behind children, and organized and mobilized volunteers such as "loving mothers" to lead children to carry out various forms of extracurricular activities. By the end of 2020, UNICEF has invested a total of 140 million yuan in public welfare funds, built 1,404 "children's happy homes", and benefited more than 800,000 children.
Children are like seedlings that emerge from the joints, not only need to be nourished by sunshine and rain and dew, but also need to guard against danger and destruction, and create a healthy growth environment for them. The short video "Life First, Protect children's well-being" launched by the China Children's Foundation records a series of public welfare projects for children launched by china. "Spring Bud Project - Bud Protection Action" is committed to the protection of girls, through systematic education guidance, popularize and improve children's awareness of prevention, exercise the ability to stay away from danger and violation; "Child Safety Education Project" to carry out safety education tour and other activities, so that children learn safety, understand safety, live simulation, knock Morse code to send a distress signal and other experiential teaching, so that safety lessons are popular with children, in the form of edutainment to make safety education into the mind.
How to understand the family, society and the country are very important in the development of adolescents. Under the new situation and new problems, UNICEF has launched a series of beneficial measures to respond to the needs of the times and cultivate new people of the times. The short video of "Li De Shu Ren, Cultivating New People of the Times" vividly records these warm actions - the establishment of a new parent college, the construction of a new media family education platform, to provide parents with guidance and answer puzzles. In the hearts of children, "home" represents a series of beautiful words such as love, trust, reunion, health, happiness, etc. Only by passing on the excellent family style can the family play the educational role of the first school in life. Programs such as the "Juvenile Philanthropy Academy" focus on improving the comprehensive quality of children and inheriting traditional Chinese virtues; the "Escort Program" public welfare project helps young students establish a correct view of history, nationality, country and culture before they go abroad. As Shan Siping, the "escort chief", said, "Let them strengthen their cognition and views of this country when facing a very unfamiliar environment."
These short videos record the 40 years of ups and downs in which UNICEF anchored the development direction of prioritizing the support of poor and vulnerable children and serving the healthy growth of children. The smiles of the children in the short video let more people see that when the care of all sectors of society gathers on the road to health, learning and talent of the majority of children, it will better help the next generation to thrive and embrace the future.
Editor: Liu Liyuan