Elderly people eating in the courtyard canteen for the elderly. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
Hualong Network News (Reporter Zhao Zidong) On December 14, in Shilongmen Village, Sanjian Township, Fengdu County, Chongqing, 75-year-old Tao Qifang came to the village's courtyard canteen for the elderly early, chatted with old neighbors, and waited for lunch to be served.
Next to the stove, the village-based work team, the two village committees and the young villagers were busy preparing lunch. According to the relevant person in charge of the two village committees, Shilongmen Village is located in the Shuangying River Basin, with high mountains and steep roads, and there are many elderly people in the village. After in-depth visits and research, the village decided to open the canteen to various settlements, and preliminarily decided to open 4 courtyard canteens for the elderly, and the site selection principle is that most of the elderly in the village can reach within 10 minutes.
Canteen menu. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
The first courtyard canteen for the elderly in Fengdu County was opened in Shilongmen Village, Sanjian Township, and the villagers said that this courtyard model really solved the problem of inconvenience for the elderly, allowing everyone to get together to eat a fragrant hot meal, which warmed the stomach and heart, and shortened the distance between the neighbors. The old man Qin Baotian said with a smile: "The dishes here are very fresh, delicious, three yuan a meal is very affordable, and our old couple of us in the province cook at home."
The canteen for the elderly in the courtyard takes "food" as the link and continuously expands and extends its service functions. In addition to daily meals, the village-based team and the two village committees also plan to regularly organize activities such as free clinics and opinion collection, so as to give timely feedback on the villagers' governance suggestions and reasonable demands, and further enhance the villagers' sense of gain and happiness.
The canteen for the elderly in the courtyard is a vivid practice of grassroots party organizations to carry out practical things for the people, opening up the last kilometer of serving the masses and building a solid bridge to serve the masses. Mu Xichao, the first secretary of Shilongmen Village, Sanjian Township, said.