Red rice bags are stacked high, and yellow oil boxes are placed in order. It was the 16th day of December of the same year, and the 2023 annual consolation activity of the town's five guarantees and subsistence allowances was held as scheduled. A total of 1501 households with five guarantees and low guarantees were visited that day.
Issue consolation materials on site (photographed by Bo Feng)
Before 9 o'clock that morning, representatives from all villages in Anhai Town came to the Water Heart Temple early. For many years, the 16th day of the twelfth lunar month has become a "meeting" day between Shuixin Temple and the low-income and five guarantee households in the town. Every year on this day, rice and oil will be distributed to the low-income and five guarantee households in the town, so that everyone can have a warm year. A bag of 20 jin of rice and a barrel of 10 jin of oil for each low-income family, and a 500 yuan red packet for the households with five guarantees. A total of 1312 low-income families and 189 five guarantee families in the town were given gift packages on the same day. Since 2001, the temple has been offering condolences to the residents of the town for 20 consecutive years.
same day, Quanzhou Southeast of the city public welfare The Association also sent a plaque of love units for the Southeast Public Welfare Series in 2023 to Anhaixinchan Temple. The party branch and village committee of Chaobi Village, Jiandou Town, Anxi County, and Chaobi Primary School, Jiandou Town, Anxi County also sent a plaque of "Caring for students and loving them". In 2020, when Wu Renren, the abbot of the temple, heard that Southeast Public Welfare had been carrying out "Love Lunch" activities in Anxi and other places for many years to ensure that some children in remote mountainous areas could eat hot meals, hot dishes and hot soup, he was happy to donate 40000 yuan for the activities. Since then, every year from the beginning of the school season, the 40000 yuan donation from the Anhaixinzen Temple has arrived on schedule, which has lasted for 4 years.
In fact, Wu Renren and An Haihai Heart Buddhist Temple not only pay attention to the children of the five guarantee families, low-income families and mountain schools in the town, but also care about the students who encounter difficulties on their way to school. Over the years, they have donated 100000 yuan every year to help college students study. So far, they have donated more than 40 college students. On August 20, 2023, Jinjiang Municipal Committee of the National Revolutionary Movement held the 2023 donation ceremony of "fraternity and student aid" in Anhai Shuixin Temple, where 20 college students were granted a grant of 5000 yuan each. At the donation ceremony, Wu Renren expressed his emotional hope that through these grants, students can feel the warmth and expectation of society, help students to learn to be strong, useful, and successful in their way of study, and hope that the students who receive assistance can change from "dream people" to "dream people", use knowledge and action to serve the motherland, repay the society, and become virtuous and talented A pillar of a country that is beneficial to society. (Text/picture of Xu Cy, reporter of Southeast Morning Post, financial media, Wang Bofeng)
