Jimu News reporter Zhang Pan
Correspondent Lu Rongdan Tang Jing
"I feel very warm at home." On March 6, Chunhua, a Chibi woman who had been separated from her relatives for 42 years, returned to Guangzhou and recalled the past few days in her hometown in Chibi. The days were as happy as a dream, everything was strange yet familiar. She said she was very grateful for the help of the family search volunteers and would go home often in the future.
Li Wanxiu sent flowers to Chunhua (third from the left is Li Wanxiu, and the one holding the bouquet is Chunhua)
42 years late to embrace each other
"The train is about to arrive at the station." At 7:25 a.m. on March 1, Chunhua took the K1080 train with her husband and children and was about to arrive in Chibi. The announcement came from the radio at the Chibi Railway Station. Nervously, she walked to the door and looked around. Her relatives were also waiting eagerly at the railway station. At 7:30, train k1080 arrived at the station on time. Chunhua got off the train, ran to her relatives, and hugged each other tightly.
With similar faces and expressions of crying and laughing, the volunteers of the Chibi Volunteer Service Team of the Chibi Volunteer Association were so moved by this 42-year-overdue embrace that Vice Captain Li Wanxiu couldn't help but get wet. Eye sockets.
html On January 15, when she was free, Li Wanxiu opened the "Baby Come Home" charity website for child-finding volunteers as usual, and accidentally saw a post about Chunhua's search for relatives. It read: Lost in 1982 when she was 5 years old, and lost her clothes. It's called "Yi", shoes are called "Child", eating is called "呷", and sleeping is called " Sleepy ". Before I left home, my family just built a new house with blue bricks. Opposite my grandmother's house across the river is Hunan, and people in my hometown process ramie.
Volunteers witnessed the reunion of the Chunhua family
After reading the post, Li Wanxiu found that these clues were very consistent with the situation in Xindian Town, Chibi City, so she immediately called her friends in Xindian Town to verify. After receiving a positive reply from the other party, Li Wanxiu Xiu Yue feels more and more that the lost Chunhua is probably a child from Xindian Town.
Later, Li Wanxiu made a video based on Chunhua’s post about looking for relatives, in which Chunhua was suspected to be from Xindian Town, Chibi City, and posted it on the short video platform at around 5 p.m. At around 7 o'clock that night, Li Wanxiu received a call from someone who claimed to be Chunhua Brother, who happened to be from Xindian Town.
"She is my sister, she looks so much like her." The next day, Brother Chunhua rushed to Li Wanxiu's store. Li Wanxiu collected blood for him with a blood collection card and sent it to Tonghua, Jilin "Baby Go Home" "Public welfare organizations for comparison.
"We won the competition." On February 26, the good news came, and Li Wanxiu and the volunteers were overjoyed. Brother Chunhua said excitedly after hearing the news: "I knew she must be my sister. I brought her up until she was 5 years old!"
Volunteer of the Guandian Help Search
"I can help find relatives so quickly." Chunhua is very lucky to have found a home." Li Wanxiu said that many family seekers do not remember or misremember the characteristics of their hometown due to reasons such as being too young when they left home. In addition, the country is so big and there are so many similarities that they Casting a wide net to search is undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack. In response, Li Wanxiu figured out an effective way to help people find relatives.
Li Wanxiu is in the home textile business. She has dealt with people from all over the province all year round. She has a lot of experience and connections and understands different regions and cultures. In her spare time, she would search for family-hunting posts in the province, ponder clues based on the descriptions of family-seekers, and then check with local acquaintances or volunteers. As long as a little clue is found, a group will be established specifically for the family seeker, and everyone will gather together to solve the mystery layer by layer until they can help him find his family.
"Sometimes I close my shop to help people find relatives, but I don't regret it." Li Wanxiu believes that doing charity is what she likes, and it is a kind of happiness. Every time when searching for a loved one, receiving the news about the match is the happiest moment, and I feel that I have helped someone.
"She participates in charity searches every day, but she really has to be careful when looking for someone, and calm down to study the clues." Wang Nanshan, Li Wanxiu's husband, said.
Li Wanxiu said that the path of philanthropy was led by her husband, and her family also has great understanding and support for her philanthropy.
Li Wanxiu is donating blood
Li Wanxiu's husband Wang Nanshan is a teacher and has always insisted on donating blood for free. Under his influence, one day in 2008, Lee Wanxiu also walked into the blood donation truck and donated his first blood.Since then, the couple has often participated in voluntary blood donations together. So far, Li Wanxiu has donated a total of 12,900 ml of blood, and Wang Nanshan has donated a total of 9,900 ml of blood. From 2016 to 2019, Li Wanxiu won the National Gold Medal for Free Blood Donation for four consecutive years. In 2020 and 2022, he was twice rated as an "Advanced Individual" by the Xianning Blood Donation Committee.
html Helping 10 families reunite in 36 years
In 2015, Li Wanxiu, who is enthusiastic about public welfare, joined the Chibi Volunteer Service Team of the Chibi City Volunteer Association, doing cleaning, voluntary patrols, and caring for left-behind children... Whenever she was free, she actively participated in volunteer services. Enjoying it, she has participated in more than 70 volunteer service activities over the years, serving more than 1,000 people in total.
By chance, Li Wanxiu watched people searching for relatives on TV. The scene of family reunions touching her was so touching that she came up with the idea of joining the volunteer program. In 2018 and 2019, she successively joined the "Baby Come Home" and "Let Love Come Home" charity family searching organizations. In her first year as a volunteer, Li Wanxiu witnessed the reunion of a mother and her son who had been separated for more than 20 years. Her mother's "Son" moved her and remembered it for many years, which further strengthened her determination to become a family search volunteer. .
Let Love Come Home Volunteer Service Activities
In the 6 years since she became a volunteer, Li Wanxiu has helped 10 family seekers from Xianning, Chibi, Honghu and Xiushui in Jiangxi Province to return to their families, and has grown from a volunteer to a multi-talented person. An advocate of public welfare activities in the field, he became the secretary-general of the Hubei branch of "Bring Love Home" and the deputy captain of the Chibi Volunteer Service Team of the Chibi City Volunteer Association. He went further and further on the road of public welfare.
Now, her short video account has become an influential local account for searching for relatives, and she often receives many private messages asking for help. The latest family-finding information comes from a loving mother who wants to find a biological mother for her adopted daughter, hoping that the child will have more relatives to move around with in the future.
"Try to help her find the biological mother of her child." Li Wanxiu said that she will continue to help people find relatives and connect more resources to help those seeking relatives return to their families.
(Source: Jimu News)
