In the Xiangxiang Teahouse, more than ten old people sat together, some played music, some sang, and the opera was melodiousIn the care center, the elderly walked and chatted in twos and threes, basking in the sun, doing homely meals, and the laughter was ......endless
There is a special road in Dushan Community, Hengcun Town, Tonglu County, less than 200 meters away, but there are public welfare teahouses, care centers, canteens for the elderly, and love shops with "Happiness Lane" signboards to provide convenience for the elderly in the surrounding area. Here, you can see the "active" figure of the elderly every day, they are singing, or playing drums, or dancing, or practicing calligraphy, and their faces are always full of happy smiles. Therefore, the locals call this section of the road "Happiness Lane".
How to realize "the elderly have care and happiness" has always been the focus of the Dushan community. Under the guidance and promotion of the concept of "future community" and the practice of civilization in the new era, since last year, Dushan community has gathered red power with party building and joint construction, made every effort to build "Happiness Lane" as a service complex for the elderly, deepened the service brand of the party and the masses, fully mobilized the enthusiasm of social forces to participate in community services, and explored the formation of an internal and external linkage "dual circulation" model of "the elderly shine independently, and social forces widely participate", continue to improve the level of service facilitation for the elderly, and hold up the "sunset red" of community happiness with heart and affection.
Gather sand into a tower. The sunset "bursts with great energy."
In the early morning of November 27, 62-year-old Xu Kunming got up as soon as it was dawn, and after cleaning the "Happiness Lane" care center, he went to the community room to clean up, make tea and wait for the arrival of old friends. This is his second week as the "Happiness Captain".
Xu Kunming has lived alone for many years, and he has no hobbies, in the past, he went to various friends' houses after tea and dinner. In August this year, his friend Xu Ping brought him to "happiness", so far, he not only ended his "wandering" life, but also found his hobbies and learned gongs and drums. Just last week, he simply moved into the "Happiness Lane" care center and made a home here.
Word of mouth and leading people with people have gathered the popularity of "Happiness" today. And the starting point of all this is a public welfare teahouse - Xiangxiang Teahouse.
Dushan Community is located in the old town of Hengcun Town, with a total of 586 elderly people over the age of 60 in the jurisdiction, accounting for about 43 of the total registered population5%, which can be said to be the "oldest" community in town. On the one hand, the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the elderly, and on the other hand, limited funds, Zhou Pinghua, secretary of the general party branch of the community and director of the neighborhood committee, combined with the practice of civilization in the new era, took the lead in opening a fragrant teahouse in the community in 2019 for the elderly to use for free.
Since there is a fixed event venue, everyone has slowly gathered, like a snowball, with the teahouse as the center, and the 'circle of friends' is getting bigger and bigger. This year's 76-year-old Feng Guandong is the "old tea guest" of the teahouse, under the guidance and encouragement of the tea friends, he taught himself to sing, almost every day to go to the teahouse, under the guidance of Xu Ningchu, the 82-year-old head of the old cultural station in the community, the two formed a partner, one played the piano and one sang, and the life was very comfortable.
In 2020, Zhou Pinghua took the lead in setting up a canteen for the elderly, and set a meal fee of 1 yuan for the elderly over 90 years old, 2 yuan for the elderly over 80 years old, 3 yuan for the elderly over 70 years old, and 5 yuan for the elderly over 60 years old to meet the dining needs of the elderly in the community. At the same time, special care is given to the disabled.
Persons with disabilities in the first and second classes are free of charge.
Although the food in the canteen is not luxurious, it is a large expense over time. In order to let the elderly "eat well and eat well", Zhou Pinghua resolutely did not lower the procurement standards of ingredients.
Xu Ping's father, an old party member in the community, once said to Zhou Pinghua: "It's a good thing to run a canteen, you can make a fundraiser, and we will all support it." Zhou Pinghua shook her head after hearing this, and said with a smile: "The community canteen is to serve the elderly, how can I let you donate again, there will always be a way to solve the problem." ”
Although the elderly are already very satisfied with the community's warm-hearted practices, Zhou Pinghua always feels that it is not enough. Later, under her guidance, the old people in the community set up the "Happiness Lane" entertainment club, and set up 8 volunteer teams such as the Dushan Story Club, the Happy Waist Drum Team, and the Qiangniu Gong Team, absorbing more than 100 regular members, and regularly carrying out activities such as waist drums, gongs and drums, calligraphy, story meetings, and singing every week. In order to encourage everyone's enthusiasm, Zhou Pinghua also applied for a Douyin account called "Happiness Story", arranged community workers to provide live broadcast services for the elderly, and filmed and edited everyone's daily activities and put them on the Internet, which attracted many young people to sigh: "These grandparents are even more 'trendy' than us!."”
We can't wait for others to do activities for us, and we can take the initiative to exert our surplus heat to be more passionate and energetic. Hong Bingxi, a veteran party member, said with a smile that the community set up a stage to provide a place, and the old people took the initiative to participate and help each other, so that there is today's "Happiness Lane" entertainment club.
Party building leads to create a warm family.
For many years, funding has been a problem that has plagued the Dushan community, and the key to solving the problem is the leadership of party building. In May this year, the "Happiness Lane" party building joint construction was launched, attracting 20 party organizations from government agencies, state-owned enterprises, schools, two new and other types of units to participate in community governance, and striving to build 7 major service sites, including the Happiness Lane Care Center, Love Supermarket, Barber Shop, Gongfu Workshop, Coin Purse for the Elderly, Seed Store, Activity Room for the Elderly and Home Appliance Maintenance Shop, to provide strong momentum for improving community pension services and promoting grassroots autonomy.
With the support of the party building unit, we have more confidence, stronger confidence, and more freedom in our work. Zhou Pinghua said.
Walking in the "Happiness Lane", the love shops with the signboards of "Happiness Lane" are particularly eye-catching, and the operation of these stores relies on the love point system. Residents can get the corresponding points for selling the vegetables and fruits they grow and can't eat at the love store or providing them to the canteen for the elderly, and the points can be exchanged for other goods. And store owners can earn points by participating in volunteer services.
On the 25th of each month, the Dushan Community Love Bazaar will open as scheduled, and the community party members will become salesmen, and the agricultural products, daily necessities and excess food supplies provided by the party building unit will be "put on the shelves for sale", and the old people can come to the booth to taste for free, and the party members can exchange items according to their own points.
There are various love shops around the center, as well as Xiangxiang teahouses and canteens for the elderly, so it is very convenient to live here. At the beginning of this year, 79-year-old Jiang Baolian and her 88-year-old husband moved into the "Happiness Lane" care center, opening a new stage of senior life.
The "Happiness Lane" care center is dominated by the **, supported by the community, and linked by the volunteer service station, with a monthly rent of only 150 yuan, which can provide a variety of personalized services for the elderly while meeting the needs of accommodation.
Xu Xiaoyan is an all-rounder of the "Happiness Lane" entertainment club, she can sing and dance, and she is still a warm-hearted person, which volunteer team needs her, she joined in without saying a word, and the role change is very good.
The biggest feature of our 'happiness' is friendship and happiness, like a big family. This year's 69-year-old Qian Zhaodi sighed sincerely. In April this year, she returned to the Dushan community from Taizhou and joined the Happy Waist Drum Team, under the patient guidance of Teacher Zhang Xiaolan, she followed the captain Weng Lingdi to practice the Xi waist drum, and kept up with the formation in a short period of time. In her spare time, she drank tea and chatted with everyone, and gradually, her mood and body have improved significantly, and now, she not only has a ruddy complexion, but also "lost" her crutches, and her body is much tougher than before.
Relying on the leadership of party building, the elderly in Dushan community not only continue to improve their quality of life, but also realize "employment" at their doorstep and increase their income through their own labor. With the support of the party building unit, the "Gongfu Workshop Coin Purse for the Elderly" was officially established, and the elderly can come here to engage in knitwear processing, sewing and other work with low physical requirements, and some skilled elderly people can earn more than 30,000 yuan a year.
Happiness and friendship Build a large pattern of autonomy.
Zhou Pinghua introduced that in the process of building the "Happiness Lane" service complex for the elderly, the cohesion of the elderly, the community, and the party building unit has been continuously enhanced.
Sun Zhuxiang is the director of the "Xiangxiang Teahouse", she usually accompanies the elderly to drink tea and chat and read the newspaper, while carefully and meticulously doing a good job of sanitation and cleaning, book management and other work, more than a year later, with the understanding of the basic situation of community residents, whenever there is a neighborhood dispute, she can always play the role of "peacemaker", many times to help resolve the conflict. She patiently persuaded and carefully explained the policies and regulations, so that the petitioners could fully understand the national policies and the serious consequences caused by unreasonable petitions, and successfully untied the knots in the hearts of the petitioners.
After the establishment of the "Happiness Lane" Care Center, the Dushan community also launched the "Happiness Lane" system, encouraging community party members and volunteers to take turns to be the head of the Happiness Lane Care Center for a term of one month to assist in the daily management of the community. "Because it was a volunteer position, we were worried that no one would want to come at first, but we didn't expect everyone's enthusiasm to be very high. Zhou Pinghua said proudly that once the lieutenant chief system was launched, everyone enthusiastically signed up, young and old, no one is far behind, and the current lieutenant on duty often has to wait for several months before it can be his turn.
In addition, "Happiness Lane" has also established a monthly service claim mechanism and "three orders", which are provided by the party building unit with day care, medical care, cultural entertainment, legal consultation and other services for the elderly in the community, and effectively connect the needs of the elderly in the community with the personal expertise of volunteers through mass orders, party and mass orders, and volunteers to provide diversified services such as health examinations, door-to-door haircuts, relatives and friends, and online services for the elderly with reduced mobility, so as to effectively make up for the shortcomings of people's livelihood. At the same time, the party members on duty in the current month will sit in shifts to assist the community in handling daily affairs, claim and realize the "micro-wishes" of the masses, realize the community governance from "one family" to "everyone", and "add weight" to the happy life of residents.
As night fell, the old people left the Xiangxiang Teahouse and the elderly activity room one after another, and the lights of the "Happiness Lane" Care Service Center were lit up, and the happy story in this "Happiness Alley" continued.