Lead: Recently, the “Learning Powers” app published an article about the story of An Yueqi, a student of HZAU, who has devoted to volunteer service for 14 years and once used her living allowance to take students to visit Tian’anmen Square in Beijing.
A photograph of An Yueqi and a student in Dashi Village, Bijie City, Guizhou Province.
During the fourteen years at HZAU, volunteer service has become the most important part of An Yueqi’s campus life. Since entering into the university as a student in 2008, the post-90s girl has never stopped doing voluntary work.
Warmhearted and outgoing, she often cared for children with leukemia, raised money for poor students by charity sales, and volunteered to be a teacher for a short period in rural mountainous areas during her college years. In June, 2012, just before graduation, she resolutely decided to turn down the recommendation for postgraduate study and to work as a volunteer teacher for one year at HZAU-Dashi Hope Primary School in Dashui Township, Bijie City, Guizhou Province.
Though the conditions of Dashi Hope Primary School were really bad, as the only female teacher here, she overcame many difficulties to serve as a teacher of different grades. During this one-year period, she worked as the Chinese teacher and the head teacher of the sixth grade, and she also taught music and art lessons for all grades as well as English and science lessons for the fifth grade. She almost had a full schedule every day and often stayed up late to prepare lessons. When she knew some students in her class wanted to drop out of school to go to work, she spent two hours climbing over the mountains to persuade the students and their parents to change mind. She also bought stationery and books with her allowance for the students. In 2013, she used her living allowance to take children who wanted to visit Tian’anmen Square to Beijing during the summer vacation.
In May, 2013, An Yueqi together with the volunteer team members wrote a letter to General Secretary Xi Jinping to report on the achievements and prospects of the Benyu Volunteer Team over the past 10 years. To her surprise, on December 5, 2013, her team received a letter from General Secretary Xi Jinping, which was a great encouragement to them.
After returning to HZAU for postgraduate study, An Yueqi helped to guide two subsequent postgraduate teaching teams, persuaded Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corporation to set up a “love library” at Dashi Hope Primary School, and collected educational supplies for another two primary schools in Guizhou Province. Whenever she had time, she would go to the schools for the blind and the deaf to play with the children. As a seven-year member of the Benyu Volunteer Team, An Yueqi has helped more than 20 deaf-mute children.
When asked why she is so committed to volunteering, she said, “Youth is the best time in one’s life, so we should enrich it with volunteering.”
In 2013, An Yueqi was honored as the China’s College Student of the Year in the 9th selection activity and one of the “Top Ten Outstanding Youth Volunteers” in Hubei Province. She won the title of “Good People of Hongshan District” in 2014 and was honored as one of the “Jingchu Models” in 2015.
Recently, An Yueqi has become a postdoctoral fellow in aquatic product processing at HZAU. As an experienced member of the Benyu Volunteer Team, she often helps students organize volunteer activities, provides guidance for a number of volunteer projects, and serves as an instructor of HZAU team for large-scale competitions held by the Hubei Volunteer Association. In the future, she hopes to be a university teacher, aiming at serving the country with scientific research results, and at the same time, calling on more young people to participate in volunteer service.
Source: http://news.hzau.edu.cn/2022/0523/63400.shtml
Translated by: Deng Qingqing
Revised by: Yang Jian
Supervised by: Pan Buhan
