Children's Welfare Home of Honghuagang District, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. Photo by Liu Meiling
Zhongxin.com, Zunyi, Guizhou, June 1st (Liu Meiling) With pink balloons and rainbow arches, entering the children's welfare home in Honghuagang District, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province is like walking into an amusement park. In order to let the children of the orphanage have a happy "June 1" Children's Day, the director of Honghuagang District Children's Welfare Institute Zhang Huan and the staff decorated the orphanage in advance to create a festive atmosphere for the children .
For the children of Honghuagang District Children's Welfare Institute, June 1 is not only Children's Day but also their birthday.
"Eat a birthday cake and sing a birthday song, the children gathered together to make a wish." Zhang Huan told reporters that the Welfare Institute will order a two-layer or three-layer cake for children every year on Children's Day. The doctors, teachers and nurses in the hospital Take the children together for birthdays and games.
Teachers from the Children's Welfare Institute of Honghuagang District, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province combine different children's characteristics and teach according to their aptitude. Photo by Liu Meiling
Zhang Huan said: "When eating cakes, we will teach the children to learn to share. The first piece of birthday cake is first shared with the nursing aunt. The aunts are very hard."
Honghuagang District Children ’s Welfare Home was established in 1993 to provide adoption services for disabled children with social orphans, abandoned babies, and families unable to take care of them. The home currently has 44 children, of which 81% are disabled children. Cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, Down syndrome. For disabled children with surgical indications, surgical treatment can be performed through the "Tomorrow Plan for Surgical Rehabilitation of Disabled Orphans".
Due to the large number of children with disabilities, care needs to be more careful. When the reporter recently came to the activity room on the third floor of the Honghuagang District Children's Welfare Institute, nurse Aunt Yang was wiping his mouth while feeding 15-year-old Xiao Wei with chocolate biscuits. Xiao Wei is an orphan and disabled child. Aunt Yang said that Xiao Wei's eyes are invisible, and his ears are not clear. He needs assistance in walking. He can only eat liquid food for dinner. He even needs help to go to the toilet.
The professional rehabilitation medical staff (first from left) of the Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Zunyi City, Guizhou Province and the nursing staff of the Child Welfare Institute of Honghuagang District of Zunyi City provide rehabilitation training for orphans and disabled children. Photo by Liu Meiling
In order to take care of disabled children who cannot take care of themselves, the full-time nursing aunts of the Honghuagang District Children's Welfare Institute are divided into groups of two, one shift a day, and live in the same room with the children for 24-hour care.
"Children have to get up in the middle of the night and take care of their aunts and children in a room for easy care." Zhang Huan said that in addition to disabled children, there are children aged 0-5 who need 24-hour care.
"The youngest person raised in our hospital is Xiao Yang, who is 32 years old this year. He was admitted to the hospital in 1995." Zhang Huan said that although Xiao Yang is an adult, he is suffering from cerebral palsy and can't take care of himself. Have been living in a child welfare home.
In 2020, the minimum standard of raising basic living standards for orphans in Guizhou Province will be raised to 1,600 yuan per person per month (the same applies hereinafter), and children in welfare institutions have no worry about food and clothing. In addition to taking care of clothing, food, housing, and transportation, the Honghuagang District Children's Welfare Institute also provides protection for orphans and disabled children in terms of "nurture, governance, education, and well-being".
Rehabilitation training for disabled children with rehabilitation conditions is an important part of the work of Honghuagang Children Welfare Institute. Zhang Huan said: "Rehabilitation training needs to be carried out during the child's golden recovery period, so that the child's physical self-care ability can be effectively improved."
After years of hard work, many disabled children in Honghuagang District Children's Welfare Institution have never been able to stand up to be able to assist walking, never speak to express in simple language. In 2020, Honghuagang District Children's Welfare Institute and Zunyi City Maternal and Child Health Hospital reached a cooperation, and two professional rehabilitation medical staff will be sent to the Welfare Institute to guide the rehabilitation work every month.
In 2019, Honghuagang District Children's Welfare Institute is listed as a pilot hospital for rehabilitation projects in Guizhou Province. It is expected that an initial investment of 1.5 million yuan will be made to transform the children's living area on the second floor of the welfare institute into a rehabilitation training room, including an evaluation room and a sports training room , Job training room, sensory integration training room, multi-sensory comprehensive training room, rhythm training room, spa room, individual training room and other 8 functional areas.
"After the establishment of a large-scale rehabilitation area in our hospital, orphans and abandoned babies are evaluated by the hospital when they enter the hospital. If we have the conditions for rehabilitation, we can exercise in our own rehabilitation area according to the doctor ’s recommendation so that we can see the children every day. Changes. "Zhang Huan talked about the development plan of the rehabilitation work in the orphanage. His words revealed his love for the children. She has worked in the Welfare Institute for more than 20 years, the most hope is that the children can be healthy, "here is their home" (End)