Charity is just donating money? How to make a public welfare project bigger? In Guangdong, a good charity environment has enabled many public welfare people to establish well-known charity brands throughout the country. Among them, the Lions Club of Guangdong has implemented the "Vision First" project for tens of thousands of poor cataract patients and the "Love Project" for the curriculum software and situational teaching software of more than 350 schools. Recently, the reporter interviewed Zhan Xiaoyang, the leader of the Guangdong Lions Club, to learn about his public welfare concept and experience, as well as the development experience of the Guangdong Lions Club. In his view, to develop charity, we must pay attention to the sustainable development of the project. It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish: "at first, we took them with us in the hope that one day they could walk by themselves." Nowadays, poverty alleviation is also one of the ways for social organizations to play their role. Zhan Xiaoyang believes that accurate poverty alleviation must be grounded, and helpers should constantly review and correct all charitable acts to help those in need return to normal life. In-depth understanding of the story of charity, the reporter found that charity is not a distant concept and field. Everyone can create a bright future in this land, bring goodwill and warmth to people around them, and more importantly, while giving kindness and beauty, life also produces beautiful opportunities. Review: To help others is to learn to cherish and fear life. Before entering the Lions Club of Guangdong, Zhan Xiaoyang had been doing public welfare silently for many years, and participated in rehabilitation activities for deaf children every year. Ten years later, from June 2009 10, Zhan Xiaoyang's status changed from team leader to district chairman, and then to the secretary general, second vice chairman, first vice chairman and president of 20 19-2020 of Guangdong Lions Club, and he won many awards. With the team strength of the Lions Club, Zhan Xiaoyang's public welfare route has been extended to more poverty-stricken areas in China. When we visited the poverty-stricken areas, we were really surprised to see that these families were surrounded by four walls-the poverty they lived in was far beyond our imagination, and many family members were disabled, so poverty became inevitable. The sight of poverty has repeatedly made Zhan Xiaoyang and the "lion friends" of the Lions Club feel a long way to go. "Vision First" is one of the most constructive activities in vision care initiated by Lions International. Since its establishment, the Guangdong Lions Club has been participating in the "Vision First" project, providing tens of thousands of poor cataract patients with free sight-restoring surgery, which has had a wide impact in society, making the "Vision First" action one of the service brand projects of the Guangdong Lions Club. Because of the achievements of this project, the Standing Committee of Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress awarded the honorary title of "Light Messenger" to Guangdong Lions Club. Zhan Xiaoyang introduced that in underdeveloped areas, many people have the need for cataract surgery: "After investigation, we investigated more than 200 cases of cataract in Daliangshan area before, and we are still investigating this year. It is estimated that there are more than 500 cases, all of which need cataract surgery. "According to reports, the screening criteria are first of all poor households with difficulties in self-funded surgery. Bring cataract surgery to poor households and let them see the light again. Some patients are basically blind because of cataract, and have lost hope for life. When they can see the world again, they are no longer "disabled" as others say, but have the ability to take care of themselves and stand on their own feet. Seeing the excitement of their rebirth, the lion friends are very moved every time: "They not only saved a painful person, but also saved a painful family by solving a labor force. "Seeing that almost blind cataract patients get help, we cry with joy, we are moved, and we grow." Zhan Xiaoyang said that in the process of helping others, the giver is actually learning to observe and feel life, and learn to cherish and fear life. At present, the same poverty alleviation is not called "precise poverty alleviation". Love Project is another public welfare brand project created by Zhan Xiaoyang and the Lions Club of Guangdong, that is, using advanced network and software technology, donating the best educational resources, special-grade teacher tutoring course software and situational teaching software to schools in poverty-stricken areas, supporting corresponding audio-visual teaching equipment, and creating innovative teaching concepts and teaching models, aiming at changing the backward educational situation in poverty-stricken areas and comprehensively improving the teaching level. By the end of 20 18, Lions Clubs Guangdong * * had more than 100 service teams, which cooperated with education bureaus in Guangdong Province and even all over the country, and provided software equipment with a total value of more than150,000 yuan to poor areas in China, benefiting more than 300,000 students from more than 3.5 schools. 2065438+09 "99 Public Welfare Day" Guangdong Lions Club raised funds online, and the love project was one of the key projects. This is the first time that the Guangdong Lions Club has "touched the net" to raise funds. This pioneering work allowed 3,468 people to participate in the fundraising of the Lions Club of Guangdong, and raised a total of 150 188.2 yuan, and another 20,263.4 yuan came from Tencent Public Welfare, striving to achieve the fundraising goal. Due to the mature project service model in Ai Xin, it provides an effective attempt to solve the problem of unbalanced education in underdeveloped areas. Zhan Xiaoyang revealed that the Love Project will gradually radiate from Guangdong Province to primary schools in poverty-stricken areas across the country in the future. The implementation process of Ai Xin project shows the effect of "precise poverty alleviation". Zhan Xiaoyang said that the Lions Club of Guangdong specially set up the Ai Xin Engineering Committee, and produced a series of standardized courseware, which combined the service mode with the evaluation of the return visit from beginning to end to ensure that the Ai Xin project had both the return visit and the return visit, and finally made an evaluation. For precision poverty alleviation, Zhan Xiaoyang has his own understanding of "grounding gas": "It should be demand-oriented, and uniformity is not called precision. For example, he said that the rice in the home of the poverty alleviation object has not been finished, and everyone is helping the poor, which may lead to the accumulation of rice at home that cannot be handled, while other materials that are already lacking are still lacking. How to understand the needs of the poor? Zhan Xiaoyang's experience is household survey: "We must do household survey to understand their needs, so as to help families improve their life index. "He clearly knows that the poorer his family is, the worse it will be if something goes wrong, and he may even be crushed by the last straw. Thinking: To strengthen the poor themselves, Zhan Xiaoyang advocated in the Lions Club of Guangdong that the recipients should be fully respected: "When we go to poor people's homes, we should respect them, listen to their expressions first, and don't be busy talking to ourselves; If the other person is disabled and his legs and feet are inconvenient, we should sit or squat to adapt to their height and not let them feel disrespected. He also has many simple suggestions for lion friends, such as dressing simply and quietly, trying to take care of the psychology of the poor, and not making them feel too different from each other; Oppose "ostentatiously helping the poor", and don't persuade the lion friends to be busy taking photos to make friends, thinking that this may plant "bad seeds": "If you help a student, you always post other people's photos online. When he grows up, will he still live with the label of being rescued? " Zhan Xiaoyang is extremely opposed to seeking personal gain under the banner of "precision poverty alleviation": "Some companies promote" precision poverty alleviation "and sell three Jin of rice to 38 yuan. I learned that the income of farmers is only 2.8 yuan/Jin, and more profits are taken away by middlemen. Leaving the market is not helping the poor. In his view, whether doing public welfare or helping the poor, we should consider the sustainable development of the project. Don't cultivate the habit of "reaching for it" to make the poor strong and self-reliant. At first, we can walk with them, but the purpose is not to be their crutches or their feet, but to hope that one day they can walk by themselves. He believes that accurate poverty alleviation requires "grounding gas", and the giver should constantly review and correct all charitable acts to help those in need return to normal life. 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