Yinchuan, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Reunion across blood: the warm Spring Festival of "little saplings" and "loving mothers".
Xinhua News Agency reporter Ma Lijuan.
The Spring Festival is the time for family reunion. For Rong Rong, a 12-year-old girl from Nanping Village, Tanshan Township, Yuanzhou District, Guyuan City, Ningxia, the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon is very special.
Rong Rong's home is deep in the mountains, and the two family members who live with her are both nearly 70 years old, and they are frail and sickly, and they all rely on subsidies. In recent years, the Ningxia Women's Federation has carried out the "Little Sapling" care service for children in distress throughout the region, recruiting "caring mothers" for children in distress like Rong Rong. As a part-time vice chairman of the Yuanzhou District Women's Federation, Wei Juan met Rong Rong in a caring activity last year, and since then she has formed a family relationship that crosses blood ties.
Wei Juan and Rong Rong make dumplings together. Xinhua News Agency.
During the Spring Festival this year, Wei Juan invited Rong Rong and her family to the city to "visit relatives". They made dumplings, cut window flowers, and watched movies together, and Wei Juan bought new clothes for Rong Rong from the inside out, from head to toe, including the red socks to wear in her natal year. Wei Juan's daughter is 16 years old this year, and she and Rong Rong get along like sisters, they tie each other's braids, read books, play games, and whisper endlessly.
When she first came into contact with Rong Rong, she was relatively withdrawn and talked very little. ** Hit over, she hid behind the guardian and ran away. Wei Juan said that she slowly realized that Rong Rong needed not only material help, but also spiritual care. After that, Wei Juan called Rong Rong every few days, cared about her study and life, and drove to visit Rong Rong once a month, nearly two hours each way.
Wei Juan's daughter and Rong Rong pasted window grilles together. Xinhua News Agency.
This time, Wei Juan also prepared a surprise - for Rong Rong's birthday. "Last year, Rong Rong's family was hospitalized for surgery, I took her to stay for two days, bought food at the bakery, she stared at the cake in the cabinet and kept looking, and when I asked, I found out that she had never had a birthday. ”
Knowing that Rong Rong was born in the first month, Wei Juan planned to celebrate in advance. She picked a rainbow-themed cake topped with red strawberries and pink framed reading "Little Sweetheart." "Every life born deserves to be loved, the rainbow symbolizes a bridge, and I hope to build a rainbow bridge between me and Rongrong. ”
Wei Juan's daughter also sent Rong Rong a beautiful hairpin and skirt, and when it came time to separate, the two sisters were inseparable, Rong Rong invited her sister to play in her rural hometown, Wei Juan packed her luggage, and sent the children to Rong Rong's house to continue to "go to relatives".
Wei Juan and Rong Rong's family celebrated Rong Rong's birthday. Xinhua News Agency.
Her mother Wei loves Rong Rong as her own daughter, and I am so moved that I can't say it, so I hope that Rong Rong will study hard and repay Mother Wei in the future. Rong Rong's family said. Rong Rong is in the sixth grade at the village elementary school and will go straight to a junior high school in Guyuan City this summer, and Wei Juan plans to sponsor her to be admitted to university all the time.
Not only Rongrong, but also thousands of lights during the Spring Festival, there are many warm lamps lit up for the "Rongrong". At present, the Ningxia Women's Federation has conducted a comprehensive survey of children in distress in the whole region, and has connected with civil affairs, disabled persons' federations, education and other departments340,000 disadvantaged children have set up work accounts, and recruited 11,571 "caring mothers" through the "big hands holding small hands" pairing activity, and now each "little sapling" has its own "caring mother".
Wei Juan was very happy, and now Rong Rong had nothing to talk about with her. In the song of "Happy Birthday to You", the colored candles were extinguished, and Rong Rong made a wish. The reporter asked her what she had wished, and she said: "It doesn't work if you say it, it's about my family and Wei's mother." ”