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发表于 2007-2-5 16:47:29
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志愿者,又见志愿者
Volunteers!
I am not the earliest member of the Guang Chuan Elderly Home, but I kept noticing it’s growing, as well as the numbers of the volunteers, During the time I joined the Guang Chuan Elderly Home, what makes me most curious is that what keeps the volunteers’ hearts? What makes them keep coming to visit the elders? Is the nice environment here? Seems not! Is the friendship between the volunteers? The answer is no too. It’s the elders we visit keep our heart here; they are the reasons that we keep coming. And many volunteers keep a very good and close relationship with the elders that some of the elders even treat the volunteers as their own children.
I remembered that there’s once that I went to the Guang Chuan Elderly Home, a strange elder waved at me. So I came to her. She asked me with a smile: ‘Are you somebody?” I answered:” No, sorry, Granny, I am not him, and I don’t know him.” But she insisted: ‘Yes, you are. You look just like him.” And then she kept smiling and looked at me. From the nurse I knew that the person the granny talked about is her grandson, and every time she saw the any similar age volunteer she would think that’s him. From this, I realized that how eager the elders need our care. And we treat them as family, they as us back the same.
As the elders keep the old volunteers stay, what makes the new volunteers join in? Why there are so many new volunteers join in the Heart to the Heart Home, and makes it growing fast? The answer is the infection of the volunteers. Everything the volunteers did, it impressed the people around. They are maybe just some bagatelles, but the reward is great.
Somebody thought that it can’t help much to be a volunteer, it’s much better to earn more money then give it to the charity. What misunderstand here is that to be a volunteer is not just provides your own power but also infects the others, and then expands the infection. And that helps much more than just merely gives out the money.
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