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Helping 'old boys and girls' wins model worker award
By Zha Junyan and Yan Xizao |
October 31, 2009, Saturday
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IT is often tiring helping elderly people, but Deng Guixiang does it and won trust from her "old boys and girls" in the Qingwei Neighborhood in Meilong Town ahead of anyone else.
The 34-year-old migrant worker from Heilongjiang Province was recently given a "Shanghai Model Worker" award by the city's Committee of the Aged.
"My duty is to give older people a happy and comfortable life. It's my job. If they are happy, I'm happy too," Deng said as she received the trophy from Feng Guoqin, president of CPPCC Committee of Shanghai, at the award ceremony.
For the past five years, the worker in the Meilong Home for the Aged has assisted five elderly people from four families (normally a worker is only responsible for three old people) and her daily working time exceeds nine hours.
Her daily routine includes helping older people with medicine and taking baths, cooking meals, doing foot massage, chatting and reading the paper to them.
She keeps a small notebook at hand, to record the exact medicine time, living habits and hobbies of all the old people she helps.
Everyday, Deng hovers around the four families to look after them, one as old as 95.
"I treat them like my own parents. They're poor people, weak and lonely without children," she said.
After work, Deng volunteers to do some cleaning for old people and sometimes she also involves her husband. She even takes 76-year-old Shao Shiying, one of her clients, to hospital for physical checks each week, carrying the old lady up and down six flights of stairs.
A worker in the aged home is required to work two hours daily for an old person, but Deng has exceeded that.
Her dedication has won the old people's trust. Gu Suzhen, 95, even gave her house's keys to Deng, while the 85-year-old Zhang Zhihua invites Deng to his birthday party every year, treating her as one of his family.
"I call them moms and dads. I'm happy to see them happy," she said.
The 34-year-old migrant worker from Heilongjiang Province was recently given a "Shanghai Model Worker" award by the city's Committee of the Aged.
"My duty is to give older people a happy and comfortable life. It's my job. If they are happy, I'm happy too," Deng said as she received the trophy from Feng Guoqin, president of CPPCC Committee of Shanghai, at the award ceremony.
For the past five years, the worker in the Meilong Home for the Aged has assisted five elderly people from four families (normally a worker is only responsible for three old people) and her daily working time exceeds nine hours.
Her daily routine includes helping older people with medicine and taking baths, cooking meals, doing foot massage, chatting and reading the paper to them.
She keeps a small notebook at hand, to record the exact medicine time, living habits and hobbies of all the old people she helps.
Everyday, Deng hovers around the four families to look after them, one as old as 95.
"I treat them like my own parents. They're poor people, weak and lonely without children," she said.
After work, Deng volunteers to do some cleaning for old people and sometimes she also involves her husband. She even takes 76-year-old Shao Shiying, one of her clients, to hospital for physical checks each week, carrying the old lady up and down six flights of stairs.
A worker in the aged home is required to work two hours daily for an old person, but Deng has exceeded that.
Her dedication has won the old people's trust. Gu Suzhen, 95, even gave her house's keys to Deng, while the 85-year-old Zhang Zhihua invites Deng to his birthday party every year, treating her as one of his family.
"I call them moms and dads. I'm happy to see them happy," she said.
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