Chapter 530: The Power of Love
With love, even the most difficult things become easier.
The "Spring Rain Action" - Hope Project series of student assistance activities launched by the Youth League Municipal Committee and the Mid-Levels Charity Foundation has aroused great repercussions after being publicized by various local media.
Ten days later, when the reporter visited the schools located deep in the mountains, he found that the troubles that had plagued several mountain village primary schools in the county for many years were quickly and completely resolved.
"I don't have to worry about my stools falling apart in class anymore." A fifth-grader, Li Yinghui, happily leaned back in his chair and smiled happily at the camera.
"I used to be able to eat standing up, but now I must be comfortable eating!" Tian Xiaorui, a sixth-grader, smiled shyly and sat in the cafeteria with a satisfied lunch.
In a classroom with a "First Grade" sign hanging above the door, rows of brand-new desks and chairs are eye-catching.
Although a few days have passed, Yu Xuemei, who is only seven years old, is still immersed in a sea of joy and happiness to be able to use the new tables and chairs that she can only see on TV.
The little girl happily faced the camera and said to the host very generously: "It's much better than my previous table and stool!" It's all for the kids in the city on TV! ”
Yu Xuemei's words were not exaggerated, and then the person in charge of the school took the reporters to see the dilapidated tables and stools that were placed in a temporary sundries warehouse.
"I am so grateful to the staff of the Mid-Levels Charity Foundation who donated more than 300 sets of new desks and chairs to our school. That's enough for all the students in our school to use the new desks and chairs. ”
The person in charge of the school explained excitedly, and then said with emotion, "Many tables and chairs in the past are broken, and they are all improvised, in fact, they should have been used as splitting wood for fire." Well, this time, we can finally say goodbye to these old guys who have scared us so much. ”
Those old tables and stools that were piled together, just knocked out a few days ago, and haven't had time to dispose of yet. The desks are almost all old one-piece double desks. About half of the table is gone.
Almost every desk is dilapidated, and some desks are even connected to one another, like a "ravine" on the Loess Plateau, and the already uneven desktop seems to be even more vicissitudes.
Huang Aihua, a retired veteran teacher, expressed this emotion to reporters: "Some of the desks and stools in the school were from the fifties and sixties of the last century. I've been working at this school for more than 40 years, and they're older than I do, and I've been looking forward to getting my kids to use the new desks. ”
With a new desk, everyone said goodbye to the troubles of the past, but a "goodbye" has been waiting for nearly half a century.
In a Hope Primary School in Longwan Township, everyone is also immersed in another kind of happiness and joy. Since this is the Hope Primary School donated by the Hope Project, the basic teaching conditions of the school are still very good.
A two-story teaching building is the most conspicuous and beautiful scenery in this township. The desks in the classrooms are also new single-person desks. It can be adjusted in height like a chair.
There is no shortage of all kinds of teaching equipment, and even the computer has built a microcomputer room composed of 18 computers donated by a company.
The only thing that bothers the teachers and children here is that there is no cafeteria, and the teachers have taken it upon themselves to use a reinforced classroom into a cooking cafeteria. However, this canteen is too basic.
At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the bell rang for the end of class, and I saw a group of children running out of the classrooms and running towards the cafeteria like happy little wild horses.
"I want to eat buns."
"I'm going to eat rice."
"I want that, that. And that. ”
"I want to grab a cake!"
In a matter of minutes, a long queue formed at the mouth of the three canteens. The reporter was immediately interested, especially the finger cakes mentioned by a child just now, maybe she also likes this kind of street food bar that is currently very popular. He immediately turned his head to look at the headmaster.
"This was not possible before." Looking at his students, Principal Li Xiaoman said.
Looking at the happy smiles on the faces of the children's teachers, it is enough to see how attractive the Hope Kitchen built by the Mid-Levels Charity Foundation for all these qualified mountain schools is.
Electric baking pans, freezers. Disinfection cabinet, rice steamer, sample cabinet. Plate ...... There are also several staff members dressed in snow-white chef uniforms, from a large pot stove with only one firewood in the past to a modern, clean, tidy, safe and hygienic canteen, Li Xiaoman, as the principal, sees the beauty in his eyes.
"In the past, parents were worried about the unhygienic school cafeteria, but now they are satisfied. Many parents will run to the cafeteria after their children finish eating to buy leftovers and eat them home, saying that they are better than the restaurants on the street! ”
A reporter who knew a little bit of the inside story rolled his eyes unconsciously. I complained in my heart: Can it not be delicious?
This is a cooking textbook specially written by several masters in the domestic culinary industry, and classes are held in the middle of the mountain village, and the chefs who have trained them for three days to a week for free can make a meal, how can it not compare to the craftsmanship of the local chefs in the mountains?
At the same time as the kitchen was renovated, the school cafeteria also underwent drastic changes.
"We used to eat standing or squatting, and we didn't have a dining table, but now we can sit in a clean and warm dining room, and it's nice to sit at a beautiful table and eat!" Yang Ru, a fifth-grader, chatted with reporters while eating, "At first, we couldn't believe our eyes, they were so beautiful, just like on TV." ”
Shredded fish-flavored pork, sour and hot shredded potatoes, scrambled eggs with onions, vinegared cabbage, stir-fried meat with green peppers, stewed fish (according to inside sources, this was personally trained by the great god Wang Yong in Banshan Village), braised pork ribs, winter melon vermicelli soup, seaweed egg soup......
The price of these nutritious meals is not high, as each child receives a food supplement of three dollars per day, which is provided by the Mid-Levels Charity Foundation, so that children usually do not have to pay for their own lunches. If you want to eat better, one or two dollars is enough to improve your meal.
For example, the finger cakes sold outside for five yuan only cost one dollar here. One serving of fish, two dollars. Ribs, two bucks. Fish-flavored shredded pork, a dollar......
Eating a fragrant meal. The children's immature little faces were full of indissoluble happiness. According to them, it is better than the food at home, and it is said that because of the appearance of this canteen, many children who are tired of school know to study hard.
Li Xiaoman, the principal of the school, confirmed this statement, saying that the children sat in such a beautiful canteen and ate such delicious meals, and they yearned for life in the big city that they had never gone out and only stayed in the big city that was said.
And if they want to get out of the mountains and live the life of their dreams, going to school is undoubtedly the best. The most necessary way.
This time, the Mid-Levels Foundation replaced all eight primary schools in the county with new desks and chairs, provided new canteens for schools with conditions, and donated money to build new canteens for those schools without conditions.
After the overwhelming media publicity, the event of the Mid-Levels Charity Foundation set off a huge impact in the Hong Kong city, receiving unprecedented attention and great repercussions.
Both business owners and ordinary people have donated money and materials in various ways to support the "Spring Rain Action" organized by the Youth League * Municipal Committee.
These materials and money are like a spring rain, nourishing the young hearts of those children in the mountainous areas, and solving more century difficulties for the difficult schools in the mountainous areas.
Several primary schools in the city with the best teaching quality in the city also took the initiative to find the Youth League * Municipal Committee. He expressed his willingness to pair up with schools in mountainous areas, exchange teachers to go to each other's schools, and help teachers there improve their teaching level so that children can receive a better education.
Some people from well-to-do families. It also connects to various organizations, such as car clubs, caring volunteer teams, industry associations, etc. Drive to those mountain schools to give love, and at the same time bring your own children to receive a spiritual education.
The CEO of a well-known company in the city saw the learning environment of the children in the mountainous area and the enthusiasm of the children who were not able to compare with the establishment. It was immediately offered to support all school expenses for the 30 children, including lunches.
He said that as long as the children can be admitted, even if he can study abroad in the future, he will support them to realize their dreams.
An activity organized by the Youth League * Municipal Committee and assisted by the Banshan Charity Fund to show love to the whole city, care for children in mountainous areas, and solve more practical difficulties for schools in mountainous areas suddenly made Hong Kong City, one of the most caring cities in China, once again attract the attention of the national media.
Soon, the original donation to the school was expanded to all the charitable aspects, and various charity activities emerged one after another, making this tourist city more charming, and shining the light of humanity with the loyal belief in love on the background of the impetuousness and arrogance of the whole society.
In The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare quoted Baucia as saying, "Mercy does not come down from heaven like manna, and it gives happiness not only to those who give, but also to those who give." ”
China, which is at a critical stage of transformation, has made great progress in its economy and has made remarkable achievements in all political and economic fields, but what cannot be ignored is that some aspects of our mental outlook have also quietly changed.
The morality in the hearts of the people continued to decline, and the belief in the "conscience of heaven and earth" that was originally rooted in everyone's hearts gradually lost its support and was abandoned.
Mencius believed that "conscience" is the nature of the way of heaven and earth formed by "betting the mandate of heaven on man", and is the foundation of human life.
In the foundation of our culture, the adherence to conscience and the observance of benevolence and righteousness have naturally become the value orientation of every Chinese person, just like religious doctrines, which play a role in restricting and persuading people's concepts and behaviors.
This event in Hong Kong City is the projection of the belief in the "conscience of heaven and earth" in contemporary urban life.
With the reverence for heaven and earth, and the protection of conscience, we can inject the connotation of goodness into the city in the jungle of steel and concrete, under the mask of indifferent bystanders, and transform the emptiness and paleness brought to us by material desires into the fullness and peace of "heaven and man". (To be continued......)
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