(Striver·Zheng Qing) Cangzhou "Gege" who has traveled 200,000 kilometers in 10 years and dedicated his youth to public welfare undertakings
China News Service, Cangzhou, June 5th (translated by reporter Wang Tian) "This money can't be delayed any longer. It must be transferred to those in need as soon as possible." On the morning of the 5th, in a hot pot restaurant in Xianxian County, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, Liu Huimin was sitting at the dining table, writing materials related to the donation.
On her neck, the scar from the surgery is still clearly visible.
In November 2019, in order to distribute scholarship funds to more than 80 poor children, Liu Huimin was involved in a serious car accident on the way from Tianjin to Xian County, injuring her body in many places and breaking 11 ribs.
After being in a coma for more than ten days in the hospital, she learned that after the accident, many caring people raised the cost of surgery for her, and she raised more than 50,000 yuan for the surgery in just a few hours. account and accept social donations.
Strangers from Shijiazhuang and Qinhuangdao came to visit from hundreds of kilometers away, and her ward was filled with flowers.
What moved her even more was that the children she had sponsored were also praying for their "Sister Gege" in their own way.
"I met a lot of children in 2013. At that time, when they asked me what my name was, I told them the nickname 'Liu Gege'." Liu Huimin said that since then, children in the mountains and from all over the country People who love her are accustomed to calling her "Gege".
Before doing charity work, Liu Huimin was just an ordinary girl.
In 1989, Liu Huimin, who was born soon, was adopted by a farmer in Nanliuzhuang Village, Nanhetou Township, Xian County, Cangzhou City.
Because her family was poor and she didn't finish junior high school, she dropped out of school and went to work in Tianjin.
After working as an apprentice in a hairdressing salon in Tianjin for several years, the diligent and studious Liu Huimin became the store manager, and her salary gradually rose to more than 4,000 yuan.
In late 2012, a piece of news about impoverished children in the mountainous areas of Guizhou caught Liu Huimin's attention.
"I never thought about it, there is such a difficult place." Liu Huimin said that she had never traveled far and wanted to take a look.
Because there is usually no vacation, she bought a ticket to Guizhou on New Year's Eve.
After several turns, when she came to a mountain village in Hezhang County, Bijie City, Guizhou Province, it was the second day of the new year.
"There is no atmosphere of the Chinese New Year. The houses are dilapidated, the streets are deserted, the children are wearing shabby clothes, and the shoes that do not fit their feet have holes next to each other, and their feet are red and swollen." Jojo heard that they were all left-behind children.
On July 8, 2020, Liu Huimin (first from right in the middle row) took a group photo with a student's family at the home of a student in Guiyang Village, Shangzhong Town, Liping County, Guizhou Province.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
After returning from Guizhou, Liu Huimin's heart was "restless".
"The children's little feet are always dangling in front of my eyes. I want to help them, even if I am just a working girl." Liu Huimin said that in March 2013, she contacted Shuanglian, Shangzhong Town, Liping County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. The principal of the primary school, knowing that most of the children's shoes among the 175 students there were broken, took advantage of the only one day off a week to go to the market to buy shoes.
By May, she had finally bought enough 175 new pairs of shoes to mail to the children.
"The principal took pictures for me, and my heart melted when I saw the happy smiling faces of the children wearing new shoes." Liu Huimin said that she decided to go to the school to see what else she could do for the children.
At the end of May 2013, Liu Huimin came to Shuanglian Primary School with several thousand yuan of living, school supplies and toys.
During the more than ten days there, she kept visiting the students' homes, learning about the children's living conditions and telling them about the outside world.
"Some children's homes are very far from the school. They have to walk for three or four hours and climb several hills to get to the school. Some children's new shoes are worn out in two or three months." Liu Huimin said that after returning from Guizhou, she used several With little savings, I bought a new pair of shoes for the children and teachers of Shuanglian Primary School.
As a "working girl", Liu Huimin's selfless support for students in Guizhou was reported by the media in Guizhou, and the Tianjin media also interviewed her many times. The name of the public welfare girl "Liu Gege" gradually became well known to everyone, and many caring people came to her. She hopes to help children in poverty-stricken mountainous areas through her.
"Every money you transfer to me, I carefully write down, and I will give feedback on where it is used." Liu Huimin said that in the following years, while working, she used her spare time to donate donations from caring people. A stroke of pen is implemented to poor students and mountain schools, just like a postman, delivering love over and over again.
The picture shows Liu Huimin (third from right) visiting a student's home in Guiyang Village, Shangzhong Town, Liping County, Guizhou Province on July 8, 2020.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
With the continuous increase of caring people, Liu Huimin began to "match-up" again, allowing caring people and poor students to achieve "one-to-one" funding. In addition to remote mountainous areas, there are also some local poor students in Cangzhou.
In the past few years, Liu Huimin has traveled to more than ten provinces such as Guizhou, Qinghai, Hunan, Sichuan, etc. More and more love began to gather here, and then warmed more poor children.
Liu Huimin, who suffered the car accident in November 2019, was barely discharged from the hospital until the eve of the Spring Festival with the help of many caring people.
But a few days after she was discharged from the hospital, she brought new clothes and candy to the local students in difficulty one by one.
"I have given it to children every year in the past few years, and I don't want to disappoint them," said Liu Huimin.
The trauma caused by the car accident prevented her from going to Tianjin to work.
In September 2020, she opened a hot pot restaurant in her hometown of Xian County.
At the beginning of the store's opening, a "Love Donation Box" was placed in a prominent place in the store. "Every time I sell a single hot pot, I will take out 10 yuan and put it in the love box. If customers come to the store, if they want, You can also put it in at will." Liu Huimin said that these loving donations are also used to support poor students.
There is a table at the corner of the entrance of the hot pot restaurant. The waiter said that no matter how busy the business is in the store, this table will not receive guests. "This table is a love table set up by grid, specially for the poor children who are sponsored and the local sanitation workers. Prepared. Anyone who eats at this table eats for free."
After carefully writing the donation materials, Liu Huimin breathed a sigh of relief: "After the car accident and hospitalization, the donations you donated for me still have more than 70,000 yuan useless, and I want the charity organization to transfer this money to those who need it more than me. people."
As her body slowly improved, Liu Huimin, who could not be free, began to run around for public welfare undertakings again.
According to incomplete statistics, in the past 10 years, she has traveled to more than 10 provinces, traveled more than 200,000 kilometers, raised more than 1 million yuan, and helped more than 2,000 students in need.
"Do your best to help these children." Liu Huimin told a reporter from Chinanews.com that this is what she thought when she saw children wearing shoes with bare toes in the mountains of Hezhang County in 2013 during the Spring Festival. She has been doing it for ten years.
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