"Thank you for pruning the trees and eliminating potential safety hazards, now our living environment is safer and more comfortable......" Haitang Street is located in the old city of Leshan Central City, with large population mobility, elderly people, and difficult grassroots governance. Two years ago, Haitang Street launched the "Haitang Shimmer" volunteer service project, focusing on creating a volunteer service system that is coordinated by the Party Working Committee and Office of the street, implemented by 17 communities, win-win cooperation between caring enterprises, and extensive participation of the general public, and explores the path of combining volunteer service activities with grassroots governance.
The courtyard will collect "micro-wishes" to listen to public opinion and do things for the people
The first phase of the "Micro Wish" Courtyard Dam Meeting
A courtyard dam will build a "connecting bridge". With the help of the "Haitang Glimmer" volunteer service public welfare project platform, Haitang Street has held many courtyard and dam meetings to listen to the voices of the masses, solve problems for the masses, and do one practical thing after another. Since 2022, Haitang Street has integrated the special action of "I do practical things for the masses" into the courtyard and dam meeting, and a total of 112 courtyard and dam meetings have been held so far, 416 problems have been collected on the spot, 414 problems have been solved, and 3,734 people have participated.
Public welfare activities enter the jurisdiction to serve the masses without stopping
"Begonia Glimmer" closely follows the spiritual core of "Practicing Ten Loves, Deyao Jiazhou", and according to the expertise and service characteristics of volunteers, "Begonia Glimmer" has set up 6 teams, including theoretical preaching, theatrical performances, health and environmental protection, medical fitness, helping the weak and the poor, and emergency rescue, benefiting more than 100,000 people. Through the centralized organization of volunteer activities, including free clinics, voluntary blood donation, voluntary haircuts, science popularization, etc., it provides convenience for residents.
Liao Xiang is one of the volunteers of "Begonia Shimmer", because his grandfather and father are soldiers, under the education and guidance of his elders, Liao Xiang has been full of reverence for soldiers since he was a child, in order to let more people understand the stories of veterans, Liao Xiang launched the "Tell the Stories of Veterans • Inherit the Red Gene" public welfare lectures, which have been held more than 50 in schools, communities and units.
Wu Guangrong, a volunteer in his seventies, has never stopped giving haircuts to the needy, and free door-to-door haircuts are not limited to his own community, but also for the orphaned, old, sick and disabled people in other communities, as long as there is a need, he always responds. "As long as I can help people cut their hair, I will continue to do it......" Wu Guangrong has never stopped on the road of volunteering, and has always walked on the road of helping others.
In addition, "Begonia Glimmer" also carried out a series of activities such as caring for the "old and the young", "nursing" actions, and power line hidden defect investigation and maintenance actions, and solved the problems of the masses with heart and affection, which won unanimous praise from the masses.
Intimate measures to warm tourists and volunteer services to promote development
"You can drink hot water and go to the toilet for free." This is a sentence that the owners of the shops in Zhanggongqiao Food Street often hang on their lips. Every holiday, "Begonia Glimmer" will dispatch hundreds of volunteers to provide tourists with tourism consultation, civilized persuasion, tourism order maintenance, difficulty solving, emergency medicine kits and other services.
In the past two years, the "Begonia Glimmer" volunteer service public welfare project has built the "three systems" of activities, personnel and security by building "N platforms" such as the co-construction of enterprises and institutions, social organization services, and the participation of party members and the masses, so as to ensure the integrated development of the needs of the masses, volunteer services, and government (enterprises) as guarantees, promote the formation of a harmonious neighborhood and mutual help atmosphere, and help the creation of a civilized city in Shizhong District and the construction of the most "Jia" tourist city.
Up to now, there are more than 18,000 registered volunteers in the "Begonia Glimmer" service team, and more than 800 "Begonia Glimmer" centralized volunteer service activities have been carried out, benefiting more than 100,000 people (times). In addition, "Begonia Shimmer" will carry out a theme volunteer service every month, and has won praise from the majority of tourists and the masses with full enthusiasm for work.
Yuan Mei, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Haitang Street, said: "The 'Haitang Glimmer' volunteer service public welfare project further promotes neighborhood harmony and mutual help by solving problems for the people, sharing worries for the society, and establishing morality for themselves, forming a good social atmosphere of 'everyone for me, I for everyone', and creating a good atmosphere of 'co-construction, co-governance, sharing, and win-win'. In the next step, Haitang Street will continue to let the "volunteer red" shine on the front line of the grassroots and let the "Begonia Shimmer" warm people's hearts.
Source: Rong Media Center, Shizhong District, Leshan City