Sunset Beauty (3) | 51-year-old aunt to be a volunteer "red bride" to find love for the celibate elderly

The Paper's reporters Chen Yaru and Zhang Liutao

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[Editor's note]: The aging of Chinese society is intensifying, in the face of the spiritual and emotional emptiness of the elderly, the "digital divide" is difficult to cross, some elderly people have opened lifelong learning, and led more people to explore a colorful life; some people through their own efforts, to provide convenience for the lives of the elderly. On the occasion of chongyang festival, the surging news published a group of reports on this.

Every weekend, the home of the "Kaiyihui" social organization in Kaixuan Street, Hangzhou will hold a dating activity for the elderly, and when the activity ends, sometimes the elderly will hold hands successfully.

Yu Zhumei, the organizer and leader of the Hangzhou Volunteer Association's Respect for the Elderly Service Team, told the surging news (www.thepaper.cn) that unlike the marriage and love company through data matching, she will chat with each single elderly person who comes to the scene, understand the situation and then introduce, "Be sure to be familiar with their needs and build a sense of trust." ”

Yu Zhumei is the head of the "Love in the Red Line" Marriage and Love Public Welfare Service Center in Kaixuan Street, volunteering to provide "Red Lady" services, "I pay special attention to the emotional life of the elderly, because there are still very few institutions in society that provide marriage and love services for the elderly. ”

In 2013, Yu Zhumei began to find love for the celibate elderly. "At that time, there were not so many information channels, and there were only one or two events a year." She said that with the construction of network channels, more and more people participated in the activities, and there are currently more than 800 people registered in the center, in addition to Hangzhou, as well as Nanjing, Shenzhen and even northeast China. Since October last year, in addition to being suspended for a period of time due to the impact of the epidemic, dating activities for the elderly have become normalized, with 20 or 30 people participating each time.

When the "Red Lady" process, Yu Zhumei is touched by the single old man's desire for love and the fear of loneliness. "No matter how filial piety children are, they also have their own busyness." She said that many single elderly people are good even if there is a person to eat together, it is not necessary to say when they are sick, sometimes they will be afraid to sleep at night, afraid that they will not be there when they sleep.

Yu Zhumei also admitted that there are not many elderly people who finally hold hands successfully and come together, some of them consider the factors of their children, and more are difficult to completely match each other's needs, women hope to find those who are good to themselves and are similar in age, and men generally want to find younger ones.

Although it is a little difficult to find confidants, this does not hinder the enthusiasm of the single elderly. "Whenever someone succeeds, other old people will cast envious eyes and ask me when they can succeed, and I say I will cheer up, and you must also work hard." Yu Zhumei, 51, said: "They trust me, I will always serve and grow old with them." ”

Editor-in-Charge: Zhang Jun

Proofreader: Ding Xiao