Modern Express News (correspondent Dai Yong, Shi Peng, reporter Cao Dewei Wen / photo) "Come and come, everyone serve lamb soup, sit inside!" At 8:00 a.m. on January 18, at the Wuji Lamb Shop in downtown Zhenjiang, dozens of sanitation workers were smiling and eating bowls of mutton soup. The Modern Express reporter learned that this is the third "a bowl of mutton soup, warm a city" activity site jointly organized by the Zhenjiang Charity Federation, the Zhenjiang City Chengguan Bureau, the Zhenjiang City Chengguan Law Enforcement Detachment, the "Big Head to Help" volunteer service team, the one-minute public welfare team and many other loving units. It is reported that this is the third consecutive year that the enthusiastic citizens of Zhenjiang have crowdfunded to invite sanitation workers to drink sheep soup. After the event began, it received many donations from caring netizens at home and abroad. According to the organizers, a total of 2,000 bowls of mutton soup have been prepared this year, which will be sent to sanitation workers in the urban area in batches.
In the early morning of winter, when the citizens are still immersed in sleep, the sanitation workers have begun to work on the streets, paying in obscurity, dressing up the city with their hard hands, they are cute and respectable "city beauticians". One minute public welfare initiator, netizen "I love Andy Lau" told reporters that in the middle of January this year, after he issued an initiative in the WeChat group and circle of friends, volunteers have generously donated, 50 yuan, 100 yuan, 1000 yuan ... Netizens poured in love, and specially wrote blessings such as "a bowl of mutton soup" and "warm a city" on the "red packet". Zhang Renjun, a Xinjiang aid cadre in Zhenjiang, is currently in Xinjiang and also sent a 100 yuan red envelope after seeing the event; a volunteer who did not want to be named immediately transferred 1,000 yuan. "I love Andy Lau" introduced, as well as netizens far overseas also responded immediately, volunteers Lu Qiuyuan and Xu Na sent red envelopes from Japan and New Zealand respectively. According to reports, after only 24 hours, the one-minute public welfare team received a total of 6,088 yuan in red envelopes from 68 volunteers.
At the same time, the head of the "Datou to Help" volunteer service team and netizen "Datouliang" also released information to the social caring group at the same time, and the caring citizens took action one after another to warm the front-line sanitation workers with their own love. Among them, the children of Zhongshan Road Kindergarten and Jinghe Road Kindergarten jiangke university are raising funds for sanitation workers through housework to earn remuneration. Within 48 hours, the amount of crowdfunding by caring netizens exceeded 30,000 yuan.
In order to let more people understand the living conditions of sanitation workers, the organizers of the event also filmed a 23-second short video of the daily work of sanitation worker Zhang Xueming, which was viewed 9.17 million times and liked 400,000 times after being released on the online platform. Netizens have left messages: "Salute to the kind-hearted, hard-working and simple sanitation workers" "Society needs to respect workers"... Message after message touched the people around them. On the same day, there were also caring people who rushed to the scene of the event and sent a snack package to Zhang Xueming.
Yu Daohuan is a cleaner in the Runzhou Sanitation Institute, engaged in sanitation work for 15 years, in the winter, she went out at the earliest 4 o'clock, and worked until about 10 o'clock to go home, and in order to save time, she only started to eat breakfast after returning home, eating only two meals a day. That day was the first time she drank mutton soup this winter, "after drinking this mutton soup, her body was warm and her work was energetic!" Wu Zhigang, a famous chef in Jiangsu and the founder of Wu Ji Mutton, introduced that in order to prepare for this event, the staff of the store began to get busy 3 days in advance, and each bowl of soup was full of lamb, cabbage, and hundreds of leaves, with Jingjiang Navel (a kind of Zhenjiang real estate cuisine) and flatbread to ensure that the sanitation workers were well fed and drunk. Li Yongda is a sanitation worker in the dung cleaning team of the Runzhou Sanitation Institute, and this year has participated in this love activity for the third year, "Today's mutton soup tastes very good, really fragrant"!
It is understood that the event donated a total of 2,000 bowls of mutton soup to front-line sanitation workers, the original price of 36 yuan of mutton soup, and the love merchants sold it at the standard of 16 yuan / part. In order to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control, only 30 sanitation workers were invited to participate in the event, and the remaining mutton soup will be packaged in two days and sent to the front-line sanitation workers in Jingkou, Runzhou, Zhenjiang New District, Dantu District and Zhenjiang High-tech Zone. "I hope that through such loving activities, all sectors of society will pay more attention to and care for sanitation workers." Through everyone's efforts, Zhenjiang, a city of great love, is full of warmth, makes the environment in which we live better, and better reflects the value and status of sanitation workers. Xiang Zhiming, deputy director of the Zhenjiang Municipal Urban Management Bureau, said.