Cover reporter Ouyang Hongyu
Take out the Silver Age Guard Card and click the Call button; After a while, the voice of the community volunteer came from the communicator inside the guard card: "Grandma Wang, what can I do for you?" This was what the reporter saw at the old man Wang Aifeng's home in Kuixinglou Community, Pitong Street, Pidu District, Chengdu. The Silver Age Guard Card on her hand is a new attempt to explore public welfare innovation, which is issued by the community.
Recently, the "520 Sichuan Community Charity Open Day" was launched in 12 communities in many streets of Chengdu. On the opening day, various community charity activities, such as public welfare bazaar, hiking and running, national style parade, little safflower concert, have been launched, and digital capabilities and innovative solutions have also been implemented in the community scene. The relevant person in charge of the project said that various communities in Sichuan are carrying out "culture+charity", multi subject linkage, digitalization and other attempts in public welfare innovation. "These innovative play methods make the community full of charity elements, enrich the cultural life of the community, enhance the participation of residents, and effectively promote the modernization of community governance."
The newly revised Charity Law will come into force on September 5, 2024, with a new provision: "The state encourages qualified places to set up community charity organizations, strengthen the construction of community volunteer teams, and develop community charities." This has laid the foundation of the rule of law for community charity and opened up broad space. With the continuous development of digital technology, the Internet and public welfare are forming a trend of resonance in the direction of high-quality development.
Wang Aifeng is over 80 years old this year. Her wife also suffers from Parkinson's disease, and she often falls when walking at home. In this regard, in addition to carrying out aging transformation for the elderly, community charity also uses intelligent devices to help the community complete the "care visit" for key elderly.
According to the community staff, the Silver Age Guard Card, which cooperates with Tencent SSV Silver Hair Technology Lab, has emergency help and positioning services, and also integrates a number of innovative functions. In a critical moment, the elderly can contact their family social workers at any time by pressing a button. Community workers can receive and view the call application of the elderly in real time on the mobile phone and respond to the appeal in a timely manner.
Silver Age Guard Card
"In the past, eight or nine volunteers mobilized by the community could not visit the elderly every day. Now, with intelligent devices, one social worker can take care of many elderly people online and quickly complete care visits." said Luo Jiade, a professor of sociology at Tsinghua University.
In addition, in Yongling Community, Xi'an Road Street, Qingyang District, which is famous for Yongling, AI digital people have become the propagandists of community culture, not only making Yongling cultural relics vivid, but also integrating cultural communication into the daily life of residents. In Angong Community, Huayang Street, Tianfu New Area, Sichuan, more than 300 elderly and disabled people in the community can get cancellation vouchers every month and exchange corresponding goods in the market. Connect the community with the local commercial network through digital tools to meet the personalized material needs of the community to help the people in difficulty.
"Community charity is changing from material relief and assistance to" material+service+empowerment "." Hu Xiaojun, executive director of Guangzhou Institute of Social Organizations, said that community is an important space for social residents and citizens to participate, which means that when talking about community charity, in addition to emphasizing the relief function, more and more attention is paid to its service function and community participation organization function. "Integrating technology to promote the implementation of innovative solutions such as digital culture and digital elderly care in community scenes will help the high-quality development of community philanthropy."
