Located at the junction of Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, Xuyi, Jiangsu Province, is a typical labor export county, with more than 160,000 people working abroad all year round, and nearly 10,000 left-behind children in the county. In order to protect the growth of left-behind children, teachers in the mountains have become the children's "mountain fathers and mothers".
After many years, the children who needed the care and protection of others back then have grown up. This group of young people spontaneously set up a volunteer service team, returned to the former campus, took over the baton of love, and carried out volunteer service activities.
On the morning of December 5th, Qiu Centralized School, located in the mountainous area of Xuyi County, held a collective birthday party. "Sister Shan" Zhao Shiqi and her friends gave the children exquisite birthday gifts, everyone shared the cake together, and the children's faces were full of happy smiles. "Brother Shan" and "Sister Shan" also brought a cart of scarves, gloves, blankets and other daily necessities, hoping that the children would spend a warm winter.
Qiu Centralized School is located in a remote mountainous area, and many of the students' parents work outside the home all year round, and there are many left-behind children. Of the school's 233 students, 86 are left-behind children, accounting for one-third.
Sister Shan" Zhao Shiqi empathizes, when she was a child, because her parents also worked outside for a long time, loneliness has always accompanied her, and her personality is also more introverted. Since "Mountain Daddy and Mountain Mother" paired with her, she said that it was like a beam of light that shone into her young heart and became a beacon in life.
Zhao Shiqi's deepest impression was on New Year's Day, when the evening Xi was out of school, "Shan Dad" secretly prepared a New Year's greeting card for each of the children, and the greeting card was written with a word of encouragement, "The teacher will never give up and abandon a student."
It is this sentence that Zhao Shiqi set his ambition when he was a student, and he must be a teacher like "mountain father and mountain mother" in the future, return to his hometown, help his younger brothers and sisters, and use knowledge to change his fate: "They said that they would never abandon or give up every child, and this spirit deeply moved and shocked me." If it weren't for my mountain parents, I wouldn't be where I am today. But there are many children like me in the mountains, who are eager for love, companionship, and getting out of the mountains. ”
Over the years, Zhao Shiqi has worked hard all the way, and finally walked out of the mountains, was admitted to the university, and became a teacher. In a home-to-school visit to the "Mountain Daddy and Mountain Mom" activity, after communicating with Wang Xiang, the principal of the "Mountain Dad" Qiu Concentration School, she learned that because of the age gap, there are certain difficulties in communication between the "Mountain Daddy and Mountain Mom" and the children who are in adolescence.
Wang Xiang, principal of Qiuji School in Xuyi County, said: "The first batch of students came back after graduation, and their age was more similar to that of the students, and their participation made the volunteer service team more youthful and energetic, and also shortened the distance between them and the left-behind children. ”
Fifteen-year-old Chen Xinyi, a third-year junior high school graduating student, has lived with her grandparents since she was a child, her parents are divorced, and her father has been working outside for a long time. Although he has always had excellent grades in Xi, he is very introverted. After learning about Xinyi's family's situation, the volunteers immediately paired with her and cared about her study and Xi life.
Chen Xinyi, a student at Qiuzhong High School in Xuyi County, told reporters: "I want to graduate from Kaomaba Middle School and become a teacher like my sister after graduation." I also hope that more children in poor and remote areas can go out of the mountains and use knowledge to change their destiny like their older brothers and sisters. ”
In the company of "Brother Shan", the child has become cheerful and smiling, and the team is also growing......More and more children who have gone out of the mountains have returned to the mountains and joined the team of "Brother Shanshan", from the first few to the current 45 people, they have taken advantage of various opportunities to return to their hometowns to return to their alma mater to volunteer, carry out the relay of love, and continue to write the legend of love together. In just two years, the team members have served more than 1,200 hours and served more than 3,900 left-behind children.
Zhao Shiqi said: "As a mountain brother and sister, I hope that these children can get out of this mountain through their own efforts and our help, so that they can have a better future." I also hope that they can take over the baton of love like us, help more left-behind children, change their fate with knowledge, and get out of this mountain. ”
Jiangsu News Broadcasting, Xu Renfei, Huai'an Station, Xuyi Station, Editor, Gao Ruoting).