It has been a long time since I began to work on the Western Plan on May 11, 2015, and it has been nearly 1000 days. Little by little, feeling in the heart, but never shared with others. Today, the mood is up and down, all night long, but I didn't know it was dawn. Let's chat and write down the green years and encourage you.
I don't know where to start. When I first started working on the Western Plan, I simply thought that I liked this job, and that I just liked to communicate with young people. The volunteers I met were always younger than me, and I could become younger when I was with them.
But I don't know when I began to find that I really fell in love with this career. I am eager to improve some policies and systems and do my best to protect everyone's rights and interests; I will often read the messages sent by volunteers in the group to answer some of their doubts or suggestions; They will also pay attention to the development of individual volunteers and try to help them or eliminate their misunderstanding of the project office; I also want to find some power among our volunteers that can be used as an example to pass on excellent and moving deeds for everyone and myself to learn. I want to do a good job in this project. Of course, there are many things I want to do and things I can do, but I will do them.
In the recent year, I think that every colleague in the office has indeed added several practical things to the Western Plan project, such as regaining the excellent volunteer preaching, reopening the display of newly recruited volunteers, and improving the life security of volunteers in service areas, But what I feel most deeply is that every time I go to the township or village community where the poverty alleviation volunteers are located to learn about their work, I pay homage to them sincerely.
The present few years are a critical time for poverty alleviation and a decisive time for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. Many of our volunteers have poverty alleviation tasks ranging from one household, two households, and more than 30 households. There are also volunteers who serve as the first secretary in poor villages. They go from village to village in the daytime to deal with various problems in their relatives and neighbors in the countryside. At night, they burn lights in the office and fight at night to fill in various materials for poverty alleviation assessment. Day after day, five plus two, white plus black. Not to mention that when we meet the inspection, working overtime is more normal, and staying up late has become a necessity. In fact, I don't encourage volunteers to work at such a pace and intensity, but I feel from the bottom of my heart that such youth is full of enthusiasm. Looking back today, I will also think that such youth is meaningful and not disappointing. I admire our volunteers inexplicably and hope that I can have the opportunity to fight side by side with them!
After talking so much, I suddenly want to talk about myself. It seems that my life in recent years is not as wonderful as theirs, or I am dissatisfied with myself. Maybe it's because I graduated too long. I suddenly realized that in recent years, I am less confident, sincere, frank, optimistic, progressive, righteous and responsible than before. These 16 words are the unswerving direction I set for myself when I was 18 years old. Although I lost some, I think our volunteers are well deserved. (Liu Kunrong, a staff member of the Western Plan Sichuan Project Office)
