Former title: College students grow from recipients to helpers
Jiao Minlong, reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network
Ma Mingming, a 24-year-old Hui student, majored in ideological and political education (teacher education) in the College of Marxism, Ningxia University in his fourth year of undergraduate education. He has won many grants and scholarships on his way to school. On March 11, he delivered his latest scholarship of 2000 yuan to seven children in distress identified by Huinong District Committee of Tuanshizuishan City in his hometown.
In the afternoon of the same day, Ma Mingming and the cadres of the Communist Youth League Huinong District Party Committee walked into the home of two struggling primary school students in Yucai Road and Hebin Street, sent gifts such as school bags, stationery, football, dance clothes, and encouraged them to "study hard and never give up". These gifts were purchased by Ningxia Youth Development Foundation with 2000 yuan donated by Ma Mingming.
Ma Mingming donated this donation from the 2022 Chinese University Student Self improvement Star Scholarship he received at the beginning of January this year. On March 4, he donated one of the projects carried out by the Ningxia Youth Development Foundation - "Project Hope · Light up Micro Wish" by means of online transfer. He said that March 5 this year is the 61st anniversary of learning from Lei Feng in China, "I want to take this opportunity to pass on the spirit of volunteerism and helping others".
Before donating the money, he didn't discuss it with others. After the transfer was successful, he told Wang Cunbo, Secretary General of the Ningxia Youth Development Foundation, "I donated this on behalf of the youth volunteer group and the young college students who participated in the social practice activity of" returning home "in Huinong District."
2000 yuan is not a small amount for Ma Mingming. It is enough for him to live in school for two months. Ma Mingming grew up in a rural family in Xihaigu area of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. In 2020, he and his brother moved to Huinong District of Shizuishan City, located in the north of Ningxia, with their parents' labor migration. At present, his father makes a living by manual labor, his mother does housework at home, and his brother makes a living in the factory.
During his senior high school years, a grant of 1000 yuan per semester supported Ma Mingming's board expenses, purchase of learning materials, etc., until he was admitted to the ethnic minority preparatory class of Ningxia University in 2019. After studying ideological and political education (teacher education) in Ningxia University in 2020, he received the continuation of Ningxia Yanbao Scholarship and Rocket Army Sharpening Sword Scholarship.
"If you receive help, you should pass on love" has gradually become a principle of Ma Mingming's life. After he went to college in Yinchuan, whenever the school league organized volunteer service activities, as long as they did not conflict with the study time, he would actively sign up to attend, visit the elderly in the elderly apartment, chat with special teenagers in the welfare home, sing, play basketball, paint, visit retired veterans, listen to party history stories, etc, He squeezed his living expenses.
After participating in many youth volunteer services and charity donations, Ma Mingming has more sense of closeness and belonging to the Youth League, and gradually realized that "it is not terrible for people to encounter material or spiritual difficulties when they are young, and no one is an island".
"In Ningxia, in recent years, more and more students like Ma Mingming have taken advantage of personal scholarships and pocket money to participate in public welfare donations. Charity is not a 'luxury', but a 'commodity' that everyone can use and pass on to each other." Wang Cunbo said that the Ningxia Youth Foundation expects the public to participate more in the Hope Project, providing new support for the development of young people Sow new hope.
