Volunteers proving that the spirit of Lei Feng is very much alive in district
By Tang Min, Yin Qinqin and Qian Tong |
March 26, 2013, Tuesday
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LEI Feng Day falls on March 5 every year. Lei Feng is a name known throughout China for helping others during the 1960s.
Today's volunteers show the spirit of Lei Feng is still alive.
Gao Huiming, 55, has a leg disability but still volunteers at Sunshine Home in Zhenxin Community. He treats the home's mentally ill patients cordially as his "little friends." He said only the disabled people can really understand them.
On the morning of February 26, Gao finished his domestic chores quickly and went out into a heavy rain to visit Sunshine Home. For the past three years he has visited the home at least three times a week.
After arriving, he turned on the lights and air conditioner, then boiled the water and waited for his little friends. The home's patients soon came one after another.
As usual, he would tell stories or play games with them. But suddenly one boy got angry at him, because someone in the neighborhood was honking a car horn for a long time. Without any annoyance, Gao comforted the boy with a smile. He said "All I can do is to calm them down, and nothing else."
Yang Jinhe, a university student in Jiading District, has volunteered as a teacher in Jiuweizhai Village of Aba Tibet and Qiang Minority Autonomous Region in Sichuan Province.
"The mountainous area is around 3,000 meters above the sea level with an average temperature in winter around freezing point, and the village is a two-hour drive away from the nearest county town," Yang said.
Most of the students in the village are from the Qiang ethnic minority and they don't speak Mandarin. Yang needed older students to help translate. He taught simple science concepts, for example, explaining buoyancy by doing experiments on the river.
"I knew the living conditions would be hard, and my parents told me not to go, but I insisted to go to the remote place to help the kids," Yang said. "I have also received help from others, so when I have the ability to help others, I wish to give them a hand."
Yang said his family is poor and when he was in grade three he received a donation from the district's Red Cross.
A man from Xincheng Company helped pay part of Yang's tuition and a retired teacher also helped him a lot with his studies, he said.
Today's volunteers show the spirit of Lei Feng is still alive.
Gao Huiming, 55, has a leg disability but still volunteers at Sunshine Home in Zhenxin Community. He treats the home's mentally ill patients cordially as his "little friends." He said only the disabled people can really understand them.
On the morning of February 26, Gao finished his domestic chores quickly and went out into a heavy rain to visit Sunshine Home. For the past three years he has visited the home at least three times a week.
After arriving, he turned on the lights and air conditioner, then boiled the water and waited for his little friends. The home's patients soon came one after another.
As usual, he would tell stories or play games with them. But suddenly one boy got angry at him, because someone in the neighborhood was honking a car horn for a long time. Without any annoyance, Gao comforted the boy with a smile. He said "All I can do is to calm them down, and nothing else."
Yang Jinhe, a university student in Jiading District, has volunteered as a teacher in Jiuweizhai Village of Aba Tibet and Qiang Minority Autonomous Region in Sichuan Province.
"The mountainous area is around 3,000 meters above the sea level with an average temperature in winter around freezing point, and the village is a two-hour drive away from the nearest county town," Yang said.
Most of the students in the village are from the Qiang ethnic minority and they don't speak Mandarin. Yang needed older students to help translate. He taught simple science concepts, for example, explaining buoyancy by doing experiments on the river.
"I knew the living conditions would be hard, and my parents told me not to go, but I insisted to go to the remote place to help the kids," Yang said. "I have also received help from others, so when I have the ability to help others, I wish to give them a hand."
Yang said his family is poor and when he was in grade three he received a donation from the district's Red Cross.
A man from Xincheng Company helped pay part of Yang's tuition and a retired teacher also helped him a lot with his studies, he said.
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