Reporter Liao Yanxia.
On the land of Xianggang and the surrounding "Ten Mile Steel City", on the field roads in Xiangtan City and even in the remote villages of Xiangtan County, in the homes of the elderly, children and the disabled, you may often see a group of "blue vests" busy, buying vegetables, sending oil and food, accompanying doctors, sending tuition fees, gift bags, decorating huts, completing "micro wishes" and sending service ......These ordinary little things, they have done year after year, one after another. They have a common name - volunteers of the Xiangtan Xianggang Gang Volunteer Association. 2023 is their 10th year of volunteering, so let's turn back the timeline and savor the heartwarming stories behind them.
Respect the elderly and help the elderly. - Let the elderly live out their old age in peace.
In the past Laba Festival, a small bowl of Laba porridge warmed the elderly in the six communities of Yuetang Street, Xianggang, as well as the Home Pension Center and Chenhui Pension Center. On the same day, the volunteers of the Xianggang Gang Volunteer Association sent heart-warming Laba porridge to the old people here, which has moved the old people in their hearts.
Not only Laba Festival, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, from the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival to Chongyang Festival and other traditional festivals, the association will carefully prepare programs for the elderly, so that they can gather together to celebrate the festival. They will also go to the elderly who are precisely helped by "one-to-one", send them festival materials, and send love and warmth.
This is the association's brand project - family homing precision assistance project. In 2023, the association will carry out 58 activities in the six major communities of Yuetang Street, including 10 large-scale community activities with rich content such as fun games, handmade baking, zongzi making competitions, tea parties, and community art performances. 300 people visited the homes of six categories of elderly people, including widows and orphans, the disabled, the lonely, the elderly, the empty nest, the predicament, and the families of military martyrs, and the project benefited 6,000 elderly people.
In the past year, they also undertook the project of "I do practical things for veteran comrades" of Xianggang Retirement Department, and currently received a total of 79 tasks, sent 149 volunteers, served 17 retired veteran cadres and veteran leaders, and served 353 hours, solving the practical difficulties in the daily life of veteran comrades. "The volunteers helped me clean up and have a good year. "Grandpa Dai, a retired veteran cadre, received cleaning services from volunteers of the association not long ago.
Love the child and help the child. — Let the children thrive.
I must study hard, repay caring people, and have the ability to pass on love in the future. "During the winter vacation, the martial arts students of the Jinshi Village Martial Arts Group in Shitanba, Xiangtan County, did not forget to review their homework while helping their families do what they could.
He knew that it was not easy to realize his dream of studying, and it was the Xianggang Gang Volunteer Association that gave him the opportunity and confidence to realize his dream. He is a long-term student sponsored by the association. His parents divorced when he was a child, and he relied on his grandparents to go to school. After his grandfather's death, his life was even worse. In the past three years, the association will send him tuition fees before the start of school, and also contact the Youth League Committee of Xianggang and the party branch of the third blast furnace of Xianggang Iron and Steel Plant to raise funds to help him build a "hope hut", which greatly improved his living environment. In the first half of 2023, due to the heavy rain, the dilapidated house of the Wu family collapsed partly, so he had to borrow money from everywhere and rebuild a few bungalows. The association contacted the party branch of the third blast furnace of Xianggang Iron and Steel Plant to raise 10,000 yuan for him and sent it to his home, and signed a three-year assistance agreement with him, which will subsidize him with 2,000 yuan per quarter.
In the past year, the association mobilized caring people to help 43 students in need, and sent tuition fees and materials4More than 50,000 yuan. At the same time, we linked resources to help two students from disadvantaged families build the "Hope Hut" project in Zhonglupu Town and Huashi Town, Xiangtan County, to improve their learning and living environment.
The association also continues to carry out colorful childhood education activities to strengthen the care and companionship of rural minors. In 2022-2023, a total of 2 rural schools were implemented and 220 painting gift bags were distributed. In Shiba Middle School and Rihua Central Primary School in Huashi Town, Xiangtan County, 15 class book corners were established, and 15 bookcases and 1,494 books were donated. The project not only sent painting teaching training, traffic safety knowledge training, red inspirational education, drowning prevention first aid knowledge training, and badminton basic introductory training, but also organized rural children to study in Xianggang, visited the studio of Ai Aiguo, a great craftsman, to increase students' communication with the outside world, and organized schools to carry out painting competitions and "Dream Book House Essays" activities to help children improve their painting and writing skills. The project was evaluated by the Hunan Provincial Women and Children's Association and was rated as an "excellent project".
Helping the disabled. - Make the lives of people with disabilities more dignified.
Someone wants to change to a long-awaited foot drop orthosis; Someone wants to sell unsalable honey; Some people want rice cookers, sneakers, kettles and other materials, and the "micro wishes" of these disabled friends have been realized with the help of the Xianggang Gang Volunteer Association.
In the past year, the association's "Helping the Disabled in the Name of Love" project leveraged social resources to complete the micro-wishes of 50 disabled friends in Xiangtan County through donations, donations, and claiming micro-wishes.
We mainly leverage social resources, and it is the selfless dedication of caring units and caring people that we make the disabled friends warmer and their lives more dignified. Wu Zhiping, head of the Xianggang Gang Volunteer Association, said that Xiangtan Changhang Motor, Xianggang Equipment Engineering Department, Measurement and Standard Workshop, Hunan Shangtong Electrical Equipment, Xiangtan Tianwei Industry and Trade, Hunan Messer Gas Products, Xianggang Security Department, Xiangtan Central Hospital, Xiangji Primary School 2007 Class and many other enterprises have generously donated money to help the development of the project.
The project takes the disabled over 60 years old with severe difficulties as the main body of service, and takes the "one-to-one" pairing assistance between volunteers and the disabled as the main form, providing life care, family companionship, psychological comfort and other services for the severely disabled once or twice a month, benefiting more than 300 disabled people, and the project is recommended by the Hunan Disabled Persons' Federation as a model in the province.
The association also innovatively carried out the "Love Relay Baton" project, advocating the reuse of resources, and extensively collecting wheelchairs, carts, mopeds, crutches, medical beds and other materials that are idle in special families, and then lending them through unified account management to help families in urgent need of them. The project has been carried out for seven years, and in 2023, assistive devices and other materials have been loaned 29 times, of which medical beds have been donated 4 times through the Xiangtan County Disabled Persons' Federation, which not only helps the disabled, but also makes the best use of materials.