"I got out of the mountains with the help of strangers and well-wishers, so I also want to be a silent helper. Since 2002, Huang Dan, a tax assistant of the Wangniudun Taxation Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Taxation Bureau of the State Administration of Taxation, has insisted on squeezing out a part of the money every month to donate money to education, and has driven hundreds of people around him to participate, and has made more than 1,500 difficult students receive financial assistance. A few days ago, Huang Dan was awarded the "Good Person of Guangdong" in the third quarter of 2023.
The love of education began because of a chance encounter.
Huang Dan's road of loving education started from a chance encounter when he visited his old classmates 22 years ago.
In 2001, Huang Dan was discharged from the army and demobilized. On his way home, he went to visit his old classmates who were teaching at a school, and happened to meet a skinny boy outside the classroom, listening to the lecture and taking notes. It turned out that the little boy's mother died early, his father was bedridden, and he wanted to study but couldn't afford the tuition, so he had to secretly run outside the classroom to listen to the class.
The little boy's situation deeply touched Huang Dan, making him seem to see himself at the beginning. Huang Dan was born in 1975 in a remote mountain village in Baise, Guangxi, and was able to finish high school with the help of kind strangers.
With a heart to give back, Huang Dan began to sponsor the little boy before the work was confirmed. The following year, he joined the Wangniudun Taxation Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Taxation Bureau of the State Administration of Taxation, and the number of sponsored students quickly expanded to 5.
Over the past 22 years, Huang Dan's donation to education has never stopped. To this day, Huang Dan is still sponsoring 3 students. He has long been concerned about students in Yangshan, Ruyuan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other mountainous areas in Guangdong, and has visited more than 800 families of students in poor mountainous areas 102 times.
Donating to education has also allowed Huang Dan to develop a lot of saving Xi. According to his wife, Zeng Lili, her husband has not been to the barber shop for more than ten years, and every time his hair grows, he cuts it himselfWhen I visit the sponsored students, I try to take a cheap night bus and stay in the homes of local villagers.
In this regard, Huang Dan said with a smile that although his economy is not rich, saving one province may be enough for a month's living expenses for children, and it is worth it to help those children.
More than 1,500 students have been funded.
For more than 20 years, Huang Dan has maintained correspondence with the grantees. Because of the feminine name, in the letter, he was called "Aunt Dan" by the sponsored students, until a sponsored college student came to Dongguan during the summer vacation in 2016, found Huang Dan's work unit and met him, the sponsored students learned that the original well-wisher "Aunt Dan" was a man.
As a result, Huang Dan's good deeds were gradually known by the people around him. Under his influence and drive, colleagues, friends, and comrades-in-arms around him have joined in, and more than 1,500 needy students have been funded in total.
Cai Weijun, director of the Wangniudun Taxation Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Taxation Bureau of the State Administration of Taxation, revealed in an interview with reporters that in the branch, everyone actively participated in Huang Dan's "Dongguan Love Tax Bank" student assistance activities, and helped 32 children go to school.
In recent years, with the support of many departments, Huang Dan has created the "Huang Dan Model Worker and Craftsman Talent Innovation Studio" led by him, and concurrently served as the deputy captain of the Dongguan Good People Volunteer Service Team, etc., with a higher platform and opportunities to focus on public welfare, influence and drive more people.
At present, Huang Dan's wife and 14-year-old son have joined the team of caring students. "If I embarked on the road of caring for students, it was because of a heart of giving back, now it is because of the atmosphere around me, and we are now a group of people fighting. Huang Dan said that in the future, he will continue to help others as much as he can and transmit more positive energy to the society.
Southern ** reporter Zhan Wenping.