The "volunteer weekend" of "post-90s" female nurses: raising your hand, this is a common thing

Lanzhou, June 13 (Wang Muyu) Picking up garbage by the Yellow River in Lanzhou, guiding pedestrians on the road, regularly visiting left-behind children in poor mountainous areas, and comforting people with disabilities... Every weekend, these volunteer service activities will be gansu provincial hospital acupuncture second department "post-90s" nurse Yang Yanzhuo's weekend is full, has participated in more than 100 times of service she frankly said: "I don't think doing volunteer activities is a hard thing, these are very natural and common things. ”

When the Wenchuan earthquake struck in 2008, Yang Yanzhuo, a junior high school in Gansu Province, saw the volunteer group for the first time. "At that time, I was still young, I didn't have the concept of volunteers in my head, and I saw on the street and on TV that in addition to firefighters, there were also some caring people from all walks of life who risked their lives to go to the disaster area, rescue people buried under the rubble, and bring them relief supplies." Seeing these crowds, I couldn't help but feel a strong force in my heart.

"At that time, I thought in my heart, when I grow up, I will be like this group of people to help people in need." Later, I understood that many of the caring people I saw were volunteers. Yang Yanzhuo recalled. It was also then that the idea of volunteering was like a seed, buried deep in her heart.

One weekend in early 2017, when Yang Yanzhuo brushed the circle of friends, he saw a message that a public welfare organization was recruiting volunteers to go to a primary school in Gangu County, Gansu Province, to send daily life teaching supplies to students. She signed up immediately and began her career as a volunteer. On weekends, she habitually searched for information on various volunteer activities and signed up to participate, doing "idle things" that she thought were just a show of hands: going to welfare homes to deliver daily necessities, going to the homes of disabled people to celebrate their birthdays, going to the countryside to visit left-behind children, helping the elderly buy tickets and carry luggage at the railway station during the Spring Festival...

"Doing this, I don't feel hard, but I feel very meaningful." Yang Yanzhuo explained that she grew up in the countryside as the eldest daughter of the family, because her parents still had to go to the fields to do farm work during the day, and Yang Yanzhuo, a first-grade, began to step on a small bench to wash pots and cook, take care of her younger siblings, and become her parents' right-hand man.

"At that time, on weekends, I would have to wash the clothes of the whole family alone, and I would not feel aggrieved or hard. I feel that as the eldest child in the family, these are all natural things that must be borne. So you ask me if a girl would have to work hard doing these volunteers? It really doesn't seem like much in my opinion. ”

"One of the volunteer service activities that impressed me the most was to go to Wangniangou Primary School in Yongjing County, Linxia City in May 2018 to deliver learning materials to the children, we probably drove for four or five hours on the rugged mountain road to get to school, and some local primary school students had to walk more than an hour of mountain roads from home every day to get to school, which was very hard." Yang Yanzhuo recalled.

"When we were leaving, I asked the children what they wanted, and they shyly took a small note and wrote it down to me, saying they wanted a new school bag, a watercolor pen... These things are easy for children in the city to get, but for them it is still a longing wish.

While helping others, Yang Yanzhuo is also being changed by the identity of volunteers, and she used to blush when talking to others, and she slowly became active and talkative, and she was very willing to communicate with the people around her. She said that today's young people may not all do vigorous things, when a volunteer to do what they can, it feels quite meaningful, the future will continue to do it, to help more people in need.

As a volunteer in the volunteer service team of Gansu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, she has participated in various volunteer service activities more than 139 times and is now a four-star registered volunteer. (End)

Source: China News Network