According to their motto - “Love, truth, and service to community” - Xingyang Volunteer Federation works to enhance people’s sense of social responsibility through providing them various volunteer opportunities.The office is in Xingyang, Henan province. In Henan, there are passionate volunteers who dedicate their love to those who need help. I am one of them. In June, the temperature is getting high, but there are people who still go out early in the morning and return late in the evening. They are cleaners. To create a clean and environment, they keep working even in the scorching weather. To gratitude their dedication, we launched an activity---sending drinking water to them. At 23 garbage transfer stations, there are free tea supply sties. The cleaners could drink green bean water or tea. I and other volunteers went to the sites to send water. The remotest became less cared. To let every cleaner drink water, I go to the southern and northern sites in the morning. Some friends said I don’t have to do that, because I would be tired to go so far away. I said nothing and I understood I am willing to do what I love, no matter how hard it is. After the spring festival holiday, I got to know there are a brother and sister in Zhoutong Village who need help. They only person they could count on is their old father. Their mother passed away not long after the birth of the boy. When other babies were feeding by their mothers, the brothers and sisters had to be fed by the milk of a goat. When 2 dirty thin children with tangled hair appeared in front of me, I deeply understood the children without mother. The scene was just like in the movies or TV. If I tell you there are such miserable people nowadays, you would be shocked and moved. I could not help hugging the children. I gave the children all the cash I have. In the following days, I visited the children with gifts, bringing new sheets or clothes for them and cooked a meal for them. The picture seemed fixed. It seemed we are a happy family. It is normal to help to do clean, cut hair or wash feet for the senior citizens in nursing house. Their smiles became the source of the happiness of my life. Building shelters for the needy children, supporting their tuition and caring their livings became indispensable in our lives. I am proud of my dedication for years. Dedication is a kind power which would spire us to develop. To dedicate passion without being paid back. To dedicate a sincere and pure heart is the source of my happiness. In Henan, I learned thankfulness, trust, unselfish help and love. My life is full of energy and the direction of life became clear. Original article written by Ruiping Wang , translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang According to their motto - “Love, truth, and service to community” - Xingyang Volunteer Federation works to enhance people’s sense of social responsibility through providing them various volunteer opportunities.The office is in Xingyang, Henan province. It has been 7 years since I joined Henan. I found the public services brought a lot of goodness while attending activities. Firstly, I became open-minded. If you are simple, the world will become simple. As a lyric goes, ordinary is the truth. Secondly, I am happier and life became meaningful. When I left my job, there’s no one to speak with. Thanks to the public service activities, I knew many people. When people get to know you, they would like to talk and communicate with you. The nature of people is kind. Thirdly, I learned a lot and my comprehensive capacities have been improved. I got to know many new things and attended activities. With the activities, I knew the society more and the difficulties of life. I am satisfied from what I am doing for people. Fourthly, I made many friends through public activities. We have the same goal and make efforts together. They are valuable in my life. We tried our best to make contribution to the society, which may change your life. Thanks to the friends with positive altitude, my view for the world changed and I am stepping forward to the new life. According to their motto - “Love, truth, and service to community” - Xingyang Volunteer Federation works to enhance people’s sense of social responsibility through providing them various volunteer opportunities. The office is in Xingyang, Henan province.
In June 2015, Xingze Volunteers has four main activities: 1. Helping the poor; 2. Helping school children 1+1; 3. Volunteer events; 4. Caring for the elderly.This month we organized a total of 33 volunteer events, with 2015 volunteers and a total hour count of 687 hours. I. Helping the poor: On the 28th of last month, we visited the Chen family home in Qinputou Village of Gaocun Township. After sending over part of our gifts on the 30th, we immediately began implanting our plan to fix their leaky roof. On June 5th, 2 volunteers led a construction team to the site to gather measurements and calculate amount of materials needed. The volunteers wrote a journal about their visit titled “We Are Your Eyes.” On June 6th and in a sweltering heat, 9 volunteers helped the Chen family clear and clean the rooftop area in preparation for the waterproof work. The work was finished by nightfall. On the 8th, 3 volunteers came to the family home to check out the roof project and to pay for the project costs. On June 24th, 1 volunteer came to the Chen family home to see how effective the waterproof work was ---- after a day and night of rain, the room remained dry. The result is great! According to their motto - “Love, truth, and service to community” - Xingyang Volunteer Federation works to enhance people’s sense of social responsibility through providing them various volunteer opportunities. The office is in Xingyang, Henan province. On the bright and sunny afternoon of June 21st, we, along with 25 other volunteers, went to the Henan Volunteer Social Welfare Center to set up a session where the elderly members of the community can get free haircuts. They were elated once they heard the news and immediately rushed over for their haircuts and to socialize. The volunteers carefully combed, trimmed, and transformed different hairstyles for the senior citizens. This is where the barber workshop took place.
According to their motto - “Love, truth, and service to community” - Xingyang Volunteer Federation works to enhance people’s sense of social responsibility through providing them various volunteer opportunities. The office is in Xingyang, Henan province. Wang Zhengling lives in a rural village. He is disabled and his wife passed away. He has a daughter. Difficulties made him become stubborn and lonely. He had bad relationship with his neighbors. Xingyang knew about his situation. We helped to build temp house for him in June of 2012. The whole village had running water, but he had to collect rain water for use and drinking. He hoped to have running water, too. We decided to help him and his daughter with clean water. After site survey and plan, we began to prepare materials for running water. The next day, we went to the village with all materials. Everything was organized well and we could start work immediately. Some persons were responsible for arrange wires, pipes, connections. Some were digging the channels. Zu Ge took photos while digging channels. At lunch time, a volunteer prepared noodles for us. The villagers invited us to have lunch with them. We thanked them and began to eat our own simple lunch. We also planned our work in the afternoon. Technology seemed important. Within 20 minutes, a channel of 80 meters was done. We began to arrange pipes. We went to the township for purchasing more pipes and repaired pipes for other villagers. The water did not run out for the first time, so we had to do a check and found disconnected place. Some neighbors came for help. After everything was done, we tried again. A clean water ran out from the tap. We were excited and tried to meet the water with mouths, leaving water to splash on the face. We swallowed some and it tasted good. Dream came true and Wang Zhengling smiled. He was too happy to say anything and kept rubbing his hands and making bows to us. He said many thanks and her neighbors forgot the unhappy time with him. The friendship was filled the village. The red sunset lights fell on smiling faces. Original article written by Chunli Liu, translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang According to their motto - “Love, truth, and service to community” - Xingyang Volunteer Federation works to enhance people’s sense of social responsibility through providing them various volunteer opportunities. The office is in Xingyang, Henan province.
July 10, 2014 is a wonderful new day to me but really awful to brother “High mountain sky blue creek”. Even for a simple morning exercise, he was seriously injured in a car accident and stayed in the intensive care unit for 5 days. He joined Xingyang Volunteer Federation for nearly 5 years. Quite often he participated in various volunteer activities and we become quite well acquainted over time. In my mind, he is like a big brother to us … in various activities, he is our think tank, a hard working partner; In conversations, it brinsg out wisdom and harmony. As an administrator, he is always on top of what is going on. When there is disagreement or argument, he is always the impartial mediator, always shows his clear, calm mind. Therefore, everyone knows we have a dear brother called brother “High mountain sky blue creek”, or “Brother Mountain” in short. After the incident, I went to visit brother Mountain, that is his 4th day in the intensive care unit. My voice is a little choked when seeing him lying in bed with so many bandages, tubes, and monitoring equipment over his body. It is not easy for anyone to see such an energetic person turned into this in just a few days. I quickly adjusted my voice so brother Mountain can have a peaceful rest without thinking too much. My tears started to come out again when brother Mountain said this in weak voice : “I was unable to do the haircut”. His wife said on bed side : “Didn’t you just get haircut ?”. Brother Mountain said again : “ the one at the nursing home”. Now I understand this: about a week ago, Xingyang Volunteer Federation issued a message that they are looking for volunteers to help hair cut for elderlies in the nursing home on June 12th. Brother Mountain signed up for this event and then missed it due to the accident. I held back my tears and said with smile : “Brother Mountain, I know you’re unable to go. We all did it on your behalf. Please take easy and take care”. Knowing brother Mountain was doing okay, we decided to take off after passing on concerns from others so brother Mountain can get more rest. In the hallway outside the intensive care unit, brother Mountain’s wife told us that the first thing brother Mountain asked after waking up in the intensive unit is this “Did we forward to brother Zhuo the photos from visiting the war veterans ?”. That is the event of visiting war veterans on July 9th. Brother Mountain was responsible for taking photos and was supposed to turn over them to brother Zhuo on the following day. Brother Mountain is so attached to the work he volunteered even when he is in hospital bed. I am unable to express my feelings for what has been going on. All I can do is to put the real meaning of the word “volunteer” into action. According to their motto - “Love, truth, and service to community” - Xingyang Volunteer Federation works to enhance people’s sense of social responsibility through providing them various volunteer opportunities. The office is in Xingyang, Henan province. In January of 2015, 400 pairs of cotton stocks were donated by Shenzhen Engrave Public Service. We sent 180 pairs of stocks to 90 supported students on 19th. When we went to school, we saw some students were wearing thin stocks and shoes on the playground. Their shoes were shabby, too. When we distribute the stocks, we recorded their feet sizes. We discussed to raised winter shoes for the children. After the activity on Tuesday, a kind lady sent 20 pairs of winter shoes. We gave the shoes to 20 needy children. At each school, we asked the children to try the shoes and asked their feelings. We also care about their study and other difficulties. We told the children to cut hair, wash hair, take a bath or wash clothes. We still told the children to do some housework as cooking, washing or cleanings. We said we wanted to see them clean and neatly when we would meet next time. Wearing winter shoes, their feet no longer felt cold and we felt warm, too. Original article written by Lichun Liu, translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang According to their motto - “Love, truth, and service to community” - Xingyang Volunteer Federation works to enhance people’s sense of social responsibility through providing them various volunteer opportunities. The office is in Xingyang, Henan province. It has been 4 years since I joined Xingyang Volunteer Federation. It is a team that dedicate loves and serve other people. We learned differently from each activity. However, I experienced happiness that I had never had from hair cut activity for senior citizens at the end of 2014. The weather was lovely. Some volunteers were cutting hair for some senior citizens at the corridor of the first and some senior citizens were chatting in the warm sunlight. One of my co-workers and I were cutting nails for them. They were comfortable to our services and we usually chatted with them with their interested topics when we were cutting nails One of the senior citizens asked me to cut feet nails for him. He said he had goat toes. I was wondering and surprised when I took off his shoes and stocks. He got serious onychomycosis, dark grey, thick, long and bending, looking like goat horns, which could not be removed by normal nail cutter. When I was wondering how to handle this situation, Sisi came over. There’s a vivid scene. Sisi took the cutter and cut carefully. It looks more like shoving the nails. I was secretly saying Jiayou to him. With a position, the goat toes were done bit by bit. The senior citizen kept saying thank you while wearing his stocks and shoes. He said he could walk comfortably. Another less old senior citizens came for nails’ cutting. He is mute and Sisi cut the nails patiently for him. The senior citizens gave Sisi a lot of praises. I could not help admiring him. I was happy to see they were happy about our services. The talking made us closer. We were thinking of our parents. When they are getting old, they still have someone to talk with. Isn’t it a kind of happiness? Walking out of the nursing home, we still thought of smiles, jokes and plain words. The reward was 2 words—thank you, but we got more than this—the open and happy chat with them.
According to their motto - “Love, truth, and service to community” - Xingyang Volunteer Federation works to enhance people’s sense of social responsibility through providing them various volunteer opportunities. The office is in Xingyang, Henan province.
What we knew about volunteers are some people offering their time to do something good. For years, we found more and more volunteers around us. They help people with different ways. They are happy to provide helps to needy persons. They are from different sectors with different ages, but they have one thing in common—kind and helpful. I would like to tell 2 stories about volunteers that moved me a lot. We all know an important activity in our annual meeting is to raise money for a 16-year-old girl with leukemia. Her name is Zhang Xue. We learned from Xiang Qi, a volunteer, that they family had sold everything for her illness. Life is so difficult for them. They do not have money to buy food and 3 meals became a big problem for the family. They cannot eat full every day. I was wondering how a family cannot eat full, Xiang Qi and I decided to visit the family. Zhang Xue is 16, but she got leukemia unfortunately. She is optimistic though she has been tortured by the illness. As everyone knows the treatment for leukemia is expensive. For the family is poor, the treatment has to be limited. The main treatment is chemotherapy, but it has to spend about 28000RMB for once. Expenses for 8 times of treatment have nowhere to find. On January 27, 2015, Zhang Xue has to take chemotherapy again. Xiang Qi has been helping her to coordinate money for her treatment. He has raised 13000RMB. He contacted media and reported the situation of the girl. About 20000RMB has been raised. However, his wife got cerebral infarction and was admitted by hospital not long ago. Even so, he was busy for raising money for Zhang Xue. He went to hospital for many times during Zhang Xue was in hospital. He never complained and what he has done or said was respectable. He is humble and does everything he can to help people. According to their motto - “Love, truth, and service to community” - Xingyang Volunteer Federation works to enhance people’s sense of social responsibility through providing them various volunteer opportunities. The office is in Xingyang, Henan province.
At 8 o’clock of February 2, our group of 4 set out to Guangwu, bringing out greetings for Chinese New Year. Out first stop was a poor family in migrant village. The woman of the family seemed puzzled when she saw us. When we told our purpose and gave her rice and food oil, she was moved and kept saying, “thank you, that’s very kind of you!” Then we visited 7 households in different villages. They were very happy to see us and reluctant to see us leaving. When the villagers knew we were going to visit Wei’s family, they warned us to be careful. We were curious about their warnings. We found the wife of Wei is mentally disordered. She would hurt people with knife. Sometimes Wei had to hide from her at internet café. We contacted with village chief, hoping to find him and visit his home. The scene is sad. There’s no a piece of furniture. Even the pots or bowls were broken. Wei could not go out to find work, for he had to take care of his wife. Life is really difficult for them. We were sorry for such situation when we were leaving. On the way back, we discussed about our help which just helped him a while, and it could not help him to get rid of difficulty. We hope our help could encourage him. We should find more sustain ways to people in difficult situations. Original article written by Chunli Liu, translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang |
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