The earth recovers, and the warmth of the Spring Festival continues to be transmitted! On the occasion of the approaching Lantern Festival, in order to care for the mentally handicapped and let them feel the lively atmosphere of the festival and the warmth of the society, on February 24, 2024, under the guidance of the Chongzhou Civil Affairs Bureau and the support of the Chongzhou Mentally Disordered Community Guidance Center, the Jiezi Town Fuyuan Station organized 18 ** people and their families to carry out the Lantern Festival activities with the theme of "Celebrating the Lantern Festival and Loving the Street".
As one of the traditions of the Lantern Festival, the lantern is inevitably indispensable for this event, and it will appear as the highlight of the event. In the expectation of the first person, the social worker will distribute the materials for making the lantern to each person, and then under the guidance of the social worker, the first person will slowly unfold the material of the lantern in an orderly manner, and then assemble the lantern step by step according to the steps; At the same time, the social worker actively interacts with each person and constantly helps them during the production process. After everyone's unremitting efforts, in the end, each person made their own lantern and lit it. The lantern ignites the light, and it is also the light that ignites the heart of the **.
During the dumpling session, social workers and their families accompanied the patients with mental disorders to wrap the dumplings together, wrapping new wishes and blessings into the dumplings. Everyone enjoyed the fun of making the rice balls, and in the end, they all made the rice balls that were full of roundness.
The last link is, of course, to taste the rice balls, a bowl of hot rice balls in the palm of the hand, and the ** people are also actively speaking under the leadership of social workers, sharing what they see, hear, and feel during the Spring Festival, discussing various customs of the Lantern Festival, conveying a beautiful vision for future life, and saying that they will slowly integrate into the society with a positive and optimistic mental state.
This activity can not only let the people feel the charm of traditional culture and feel the cultural atmosphere reflected by the traditional festival, but also stimulate the creative potential and hands-on ability of the people, give them emotional support, enhance the cohesion between each other, ignite the light in their hearts, and provide them with help to return to society.