Wang Xiao came to meet us and took us to the beautifully decorated urban greenway. Suddenly a turn, a quaint and somewhat dilapidated village slowly appeared.
This is the village of Hongren where he stayed for two years and decided to stay forever.
Wang Xiao, a camper of Kunming Station of Wei Spicy Youth Public Welfare Leader Camp (click for details). Sophomore came into contact with Hongren Village, Guandu District, Kunming City, junior entered the village to serve children, and senior started public welfare undertakings and took root in the village. 20 17, Renxin Social Work Service Center (hereinafter referred to as "Renxin") was established.
Because of the firmness of this continuous action, Wei La and his party decided to change their itinerary and go to Renxin after Kunming Station.
At this time, Renxin has just registered for two months.
Wang Xiao is walking in the village with a group of people who are a little spicy. Walking past the home of a hundred-year-old grandmother, she told her family in Yunnan dialect and patiently explained it to us.
He counted carefully which tile was made in which era, which old man is lonely now and which child left school tonight, as if they were his own family.
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Begin to "really understand social workers"
Wang Xiao became a student in the Department of Social Work of Yunnan University (hereinafter referred to as "Dayun" and "Social Worker") because he found that social work was "one of the positions that needed talents most in 2 1 century".
Soon, he was shocked Social workers have low employment rate and low wages. In his eyes, "it is impossible to solve the problem from the root" and "wait for the wounded to appear before dressing the wound".
Fortunately, this disappointment and arrogance in his youth made him argue with his teacher about "the use of social workers" and "what can we change?" .
Argument brings speculation.
Wang Xiao began to really get in touch with books related to social workers, eased his prejudice and decided to do it first and see what would happen. With too little school practice, he found his own resources and joined the teacher's graduate program. If the seniors and sisters don't take him, he will go by himself, interview uncles and aunts with questionnaires, and let the social texture grow on him bit by bit.
In this way, he entered the city and village that changed his life.
Sighing, silence and even acceptance in the interview, watching the elders cry like children in front of them, kept saying "I have nothing" ... Near this village in the city eroded by urban development, he found himself beginning to "really understand social workers" and began to think "What should I do?" "Why?"
"Can one person and several children change because of me?"
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Become a part of the village
At the end of the project, Wang Xiao and another partner stayed to serve the children.
It was a lonely day. As a social worker, no one can go with him. Students do their own jobs, but they don't work as social workers. Even an excellent brother went to a state-owned enterprise after graduation.
But once he did, he never left.
In the name of homework guidance, they explore the possibility of more education, take children to do homework, watch movies, read in the morning, open a toy library (children in the community can borrow toys), invite the elderly in the village to tell stories, and support children to maintain and transform the community. ...
At first, there was no venue. The villagers suspected that Wang Xiao's team cheated money and refused to let the children come.
During the summer vacation of junior year, he and his companions lived directly in the tin house in the village. It's raining in Kunming, and the leaking tin house can't live in the upper bunk, so several people have to squeeze into the lower bunk, stuffy in the hot iron, listening to the sound of water dripping on the upper bunk.
More and more children are coming, and they are all vying to say to their grandmother, "I'm going to paint with their college students!" " " ; The village group is also willing to use the idle temple rooms as venues; Grandparents in the village treat them as grandchildren and send them some food from time to time ... Most importantly, parents are willing to talk to Wang Xiao about their children.
Take root and turn a foreign "he" into a "we" with * * *.
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Set out with one heart and don't wait for anyone.
I still do it purely in Hongren Village, 20 17. Senior Wang Xiao, it's time to find a job. The prejudice against social workers has long since vanished. He wants to find a mature public welfare organization to stay for two years and fully experience himself.
But what happened in the village was beyond his control.
Like the founder, he has been coordinating large and small affairs for a long time: visiting foundations, meeting partners and supporting interns ... He has also reached the threshold of graduation, and it seems logical to set up an organization.
But even if the foundation of what Wang Xiao does in the village is good, once the organization is established, it is like a blank sheet of paper, which must be hand-painted in every direction, and the foundation must be established quickly. Can you do it? His first full-time job summary was full of worries: Is it necessary to set up an organization?
Entanglement, self-doubt, countless times on the verge of giving up, but looking at the children and companions, he still rushed to the forefront, doing projects, running procedures, registering for the benevolent social service center, and supporting the immature team from beginning to end.
Unconsciously, I survived the most difficult moment.
Now, Wang Xiao is at home in the village again. The challenges in the initial stage have always been there. He accepts, makes countermeasures, acts quickly and always tries his best.
Looking back on the decisions and actions at that time, Wang Xiao did not regret it. Explore the role of kindness in children, parents and villages; There are many children around every day, making a little change; Looking at this village, Gao Qiang living in reinforced concrete ... these are the purest things that touch the softest place in his heart.
He is bent on starting, that is, to wait for no one.
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Stay until 9 o'clock in the evening, spicy left Ren.
Wang Xiao let us go through the village again. Wang Xiao wants to talk too much about the difficulties in the initial stage and the problems and shortcomings of the team. We stood at the parting subway entrance and didn't go in. It was not until we talked about the last subway that we really told each other and hurried into the gate to say goodbye to Wang Xiao.
This is not necessarily the best way, but it is the way he chose and firmly went on.
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