The warm autumn sun shines on ZhangjiakouXingfugang Pension Community in Gonghui Town, Zhangbei County, adding a bit of warmth to the life of the elderly. Seeing the elderly enjoying the fun of hooping, finger exercises, and other activities, Xi Weiqin, assistant to the dean of the retirement community, smiled brightly.
Xi Weiqin, who was born in 1987, is a relocated person from the ex-situ poverty alleviation and relocation concentrated resettlement area in Guild Town, and is also the earliest employee who applied for the job at the beginning of the establishment of the Happy Harbor Pension Community. She was in adversity but did not bow to her fate. She chose to use diligence to get rid of poverty and protect the happiness of "sunset red" with filial piety.
"Learn to grow up in adversity"
Xi Weiqin is from ZhangjiakouZhangbei County Gonghui Town Panchengfang Village. His parents are old and frail, and his older brother suffers from mental illness. Inside the dilapidated house. Thanks to the ex-situ poverty alleviation and relocation policy, her family moved into a building in the centralized resettlement area of Gonghui Town at the end of 2018.
However, while Xi Weiqin's family was still immersed in the joy of moving to a new house, an unfortunate event once again pushed the family into the abyss. In 2019, her father was diagnosed with cancer and passed away shortly after.
"The town applied for temporary assistance and introduced the employment opportunities in the hometown; the village team sent 'love money'." Xi Weiqin said that the care from the government and all sectors of society made her more aware: "We must learn to survive adversity. You can’t leave the burden of your family to the government.” So she resigned from her job in a big city in October 2019 and applied for a job as a staff member of the Xingfugang Pension Community in Gonghui Town. The burden of raising a family.
"As long as you work hard, everything will be fine." Now, when Xi Weiqin talks about the difficult experience in the past, her tone is calm and calm. Only the perseverance in her eyes and the tears in her eyes know that she has fought with fate. What a fierce battle.
"Although busy, it is very meaningful"
"She is really a good girl, she always thinks of us in everything." The good girl in the mouth of Yan Jinbing, an elderly person in the Happy Harbor Pension Community, is Xi Weiqin.
Over the past three years, Xi Weiqin's dedication to the elderly has been seen and remembered by everyone. Cleaning the elderly's room, taking the elderly to do gymnastics, helping the elderly to take a bath... Every day from morning to night, she is very busy. Even after get off work at night, whenever she learned of an accident or conflict between the elderly, she would quickly rush to the elderly.
"Although busy, it is very meaningful." According to Xi Weiqin, there are now 108 elderly people in the Xingfugang Pension Community, including 101 disabled and semi-disabled elderly people. In order to take good care of these old people, she regularly organizes nurses and local young people to provide free haircuts and massages for the left-behind old people, chat with the lonely old people, and provide psychological counseling to the old people with serious diseases...
"Family-like caring family Warm" In Xi Weiqin's office, 12 characters on a pennant expressed the aspirations of many elderly people and their families.
"I hope more young people will join the pension industry"
"The pension community also needs 'fresh blood'!"ZhangjiakouZhangjiakouZhangjiakouThe head of the Xingfugang pension community Zhao Yonggui said that Xi Weiqin has brought new work ideas to the pension community and working methods.
In order to enrich the life of the elderly, Xi Weiqin organized the elderly with talent to form a "Happy Harbor Pension Community Performance Troupe", and rehearsed and performed two-person stage , square dance, etc. together with them; When the people found employment, Xi Weiqin actively contacted Zhang Yuan's sister-in-law service company, and built a disabled assistance factory in the resettlement area. In addition, she also taught middle-aged women in the resettlement area to learn keyboard typing and making spreadsheets; she organized hundreds of people in the town to participate in nursing, cooking and other training and learning, so that they have the skills to increase their income and become rich.
"I hope more young people will join the pension industry!" Xi Weiqin said that she likes this job and hopes to do it for a lifetime.
reporter Wang Wanliang
editor: Fanfan
