Key PointsSupplement the work Rui Jing’s mother does as she strives to care for her family.
Key PointsSupport Fang Di and her husband to get the treatment they need for improved health.
Key PointsHelp Dong Sheng’s family get the healthcare they need so they can work more effectively.
Key PointsHelp Lulu’s fatherless family get the support they need to live well.
Key PointsSupport Zhuan Zhen’s ambition to study well and help the family.
Key PointsHelp Cheng Fang’s son get the education he needs.
Key PointsEnable Yi Hong’s grandmother to get the healthcare she needs.
The Jingjieniao Home is in Xi’an, Shan’xi province. It provides services for the mentally handicapped from poverty-stricken families. The organization is dedicated to improving their spirit and living standards and advocating for every disabled individual to have adequate access to social resources.
On March 7th, Saturday, our volunteers came to The Bird Home and started the activity on 8:30. They are 8 volunteers from technology university. It was not easy job to install one of the toilet seat lids. It took about an hour. The second team came to the Home are volunteers from Xi’an Health School. 16 of them are girls and there’s only a boy. They would help to clean. At 10:00, the 3rd group are volunteers from Xi’an Power College. They arrived at The Bird Home. Most of them are male students and they cleaned the ventilator of the kitchen and organized the storehouse. The 4th group are our old friends from Home of Green. They help to clean our children and cut their nails. In the evening, Cai Xinjuan, a lady from Taiwan Special Education Training Center, visited our Home. She asked some questions about the situation of protected employment and gave some suggestive advices. The volunteers did great job and help us a lot. Thanks to them, we would have a nice and relaxing holiday. Thank our loving volunteers. Original article written by Zhaohao Feng, translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang Grounded on core values of respect, love, and service to the elderly, the Xin Yue Senior Citizen Service Center of Chongqing, China, promotes social work services for senior citizens and builds harmonious living environment for them.
In March, teachers and students from Long Zhou Wan Middle School would visit senior citizens. They wanted to do something for the senior citizens. We still remembered the same time in the last year, they brought pots of plants to the senior citizens. After spring festival, they contacted with the Center and discussed with us if there’s anything they can do for the senior citizens. Considering the lantern festival was coming, we decided to make sweet dumplings. On March 4th, the volunteers from Long Zhou Wang Middle School and the social workers did activity to celebrate lantern festival for the senior citizens. 26 senior citizens came to the activity room and made dumplings. They were chatting happily while making dumplings. The scene was as cheerful as the spring festival. You have to be skillful to make sweet dumplings. The young volunteers were very serious about it. They made dumplings with strange shapes. The people around were laughing. With the instruction of senior citizens, they soon learned to make better dumplings. The dumplings were finally made and put into boiler. When they were done, volunteers took them to the senior citizens and asked them to taste their “works”. After the activity, the volunteers accompanied the senior citizens to their rooms. A roommate of Granny Wang had not joined the activity due to the poor health, so Granny Wang took some to the room for her. The round dumpling symbolizes reunion and it was a special day. With the companions of the children, we hope the senior citizens would have the sense of reunion and to give them considerate services. Original article written by Ling Feng, translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang Little Red Scarf is in Lanzhou, Gansu and Yunnan province and provides financial support and encouragement to children suffering from congenital heart disease. In addition, they provide families with post-operative care and help the children sustain a healthy lifestyle. On May 7th, a call came in from an unrecognized number. When we answered, an excited man on the other end of the line said that the family had a child with congenital heart disease. In the neighboring village, Tong Tong, a child with congenital heart disease, had just undergone a successful surgery with the help of Little Red Scarf. This was the phone number that Tong Tong’s grandfather had personally given them, coming to their home to offer the phone number despite never having met them before. The child with congenital heart disease in this man’s home was named Yu Mei, and she had just turned 3 years old. She was born in eastern Gansu in a remote mountain village, and was the second youngest in a family of six girls. Laughingly, her father explains that in rural tradition, families had to have a boy. Their pursuit of a son is how they ended up having so many children. Yu Mei’s father had wanted her to have surgery early on, but the family had limited resources. When Yu Mei was just over a year old, he had gone to register with other congenital heart disease aid organizations but had waited over a year without any news. They knew Yu Mei had a problem from the time she was only 6 months old and the family took her to the hospital for a check up because she was so noticeably different from the other children and looked purple. Based on Little Red Scarf’s experience, Yu Mei’s condition sounded more severe than the average case, and therefore required the care of the most expert pediatric congenital heart disease specialists. May 11 – When Yun Yun saw the image of Yu Mei sent by the hospital, she was shocked by the child’s coloration. Her entire face was purple, her lips were black, her fingers and toes were black, and her eyes were bloodshot. At first sight, it was obvious that Yu Mei was very ill. The examination results at Lanzhou Hospital showed multiple problems, including a pulmonary stenosis, endocardial cushion defect, and total anomalous pulmonary venous connection. Because of the severity of her case, Little Red Scarf quickly approved Yu Mei’s application, to the happy surprise of her father. Remembering how Tong Tong’s mother cared for her alone in the hospital while Tong Tong’s grandfather had gone to hand-deliver Little Red Scarf’s phone number to Yu Mei’s family, Yu Mei’s father compared Little Red Scarf like a relay race in which parents pass the baton to one another in a race against time to save more lives! |
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