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#16 Eighty-one and Eighty-one Thousand
In the following days, Wu An, Li Yuhua and the two people from "Shanlishe" ran to other places in the county to show their love to poor children and families.
Every family has its own difficulties.
On the other hand, Wu An also saw the difficulties encountered by the two girls from the "Mountain Village" in this poverty alleviation work.
In addition to the poor people who are lazy and unwilling to work, there are also those who feel that the "mountain community" sending them loving materials hurts their self-esteem and refuse to accept them.
What’s even more serious is that they are greedy and think the things sent to them are too little and useless.
In more serious cases, some people cry, make a fuss, threaten others, and even use their own children as threats in order to make some unreasonable demands.
As for some unreasonable demands, they sound as absurd as they can be.
For example, the price may be hundreds of thousands.
For example, he wanted servants to serve him.
For example, wanting a woman - for example, wanting Li Yuhua.
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When you meet this kind of people, you can only feel helpless.
Wu An had a lot of thoughts surging in his mind, but his thoughts were confused and he didn't know what to do for a moment.
Luo Yun and Peng Xiaoling said: They are used to this situation and they also have ways to deal with it:
That is, they are managed in a more forceful way. The subsidies are not paid out all at once, but the village committee is entrusted to save them, and meals and vegetables are delivered to them. Then, various methods are used to educate them, allowing them to become self-reliant and improve their lives.
But...it had little effect.
Because the villagers who are able to take the initiative to learn and are willing to earn money to improve their lives have already learned some skills during the previous batch of poverty alleviation work and went to the city or to work in factories in the county.
What's left now are those who can't work or don't go to work.
Getting these people to work and get out of poverty on their own initiative seems harder than climbing to the sky.
After all, the shackles of human nature are not formed in a day.
But, you have to do it.
What if those people are persuaded?
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Because school had started, Luo Yun and Peng Xiaoling took Wu An and his friends to visit primary schools in several villages while they were on the road, learned about the situation, and delivered supplies.
These primary schools can only guarantee that children have books to read and a meal at noon.
The distance for children to go to school is not far, the farthest one takes less than an hour to walk - this is the best possible improvement for a mountain village like this.
Each school has only a few dozen students, ranging from grades one to six, and only a few teachers for mixed teaching.
Although he is a teacher, he is more like a parent.
They care about the children's family situation, supervise their studies, correct their homework, and then shape their values.
Then we answer their questions about the knowledge and homework that they did not understand in the online class.
Some people have worked hard to solve the shortage of teaching staff.
- Using computers to teach children remotely, but the school cannot afford a large enough screen.
The children were crowded in front of a second-hand 27-inch computer, using loud speakers to watch the teacher's lecture on the screen.
Some children study very hard, while others study shakily.
But at least... there is light in their eyes.
It was obviously much easier to get along with the children than to visit the poor homes in the village.
At least, it is sunny and simple.
It’s not as depressing as those families that “don’t know how to save the family.”
Wu An and Li Yuhua received a lot of thanks and blessings. Compared with the "blessings" from adults, the blessings from children, although sometimes seemed a bit mudslide - for example, comparing them to mating pigs at home, but also sincere.
No wonder they say: children are hope.
And so, more than a week passed.
Apart from paying money, Wu An and Li Yuhua were unable to do anything more.
What we have gained is the thought-provoking current situation of poverty in Xialin County.
Then, Wu An began to doubt the original plan - the plan to donate money to eighty-one children.
Only after I went there to investigate did I realize that it would be impossible for Wu An and Li Yuhua alone to save and donate to these children and their families.
On the road of poverty alleviation and charity, there are not only specialists like Luo Yun and Peng Xiaoling, but the country has also contributed a lot.
They built online classrooms, arranged volunteer teachers in rural primary schools, entrusted communities to manage the property of some poor families like a trust company, and so on.
It would be impossible for Wu An and Li Yuhua alone to connect so many links.
Moreover, Wu An also felt that it was not right to work just to "help eighty-one people."
Even if they can do it, then...what about the tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands or millions of families besides the eighty-one families?
Thinking of this, Wu An and Li Yuhua felt that they could no longer be selfish.
If it is only for the sake of those eighty-one merits, in order to be able to resist the following "disaster", it is selfish.
Wu An casually calculated: If he used his assets for relevant charities, letting professionals do professional things, or even used them to develop a professional public welfare charity platform and trust platform, it would allow more children to move towards a hopeful future and enable more poor families to live better.
So, should I be selfish, or should I do what I really want to do?
Wu An hesitated.
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Time passed quickly in Xialin County.
After this period of investigation, Wu An and Li Yuhua arranged the use of the one million according to what they learned and saw:
——Mainly updating the facilities in the primary school, replacing them with larger TVs for online classes, and updating some sports equipment.
The remaining money was used to set up a small fund, which was given to the "Shanli Society" for safekeeping and used to improve the children's food and clothing.
Then set up a scholarship mechanism to provide scholarships to hard-working children.
By the way, we also plan to provide additional training courses to the teachers who provide teaching support, hoping that they can tap the potential of the children - after all, not all children have a talent for learning.
As for the poverty of his children's families, Wu An could not think of a solution.
It’s ok to give some money to families who have lost their ability to work, but should we also give money to those “troublemakers” who “cannot find a job”?
Of course, that requires refined management, but what is the cost of that management?
If you think about it, this is not something Wu An can do alone.
After arranging my thoughts, it's time to leave Xialin County.
After saying goodbye to the two girls from "Shanlishe", Wu An and Li Yuhua returned to South City.
What they saw and heard during this charity event will never be forgotten in the minds of both of them.
But after so many days of hesitation, Wu An had a vague idea in his mind.
——Since you have doubts about “sponsoring eighty-one families to gain merit,” then give it up!
It should be possible to build a platform by yourself and change the action of "sponsoring 81 families to gain merit" into "enabling 810,000 poor families to receive support from kind-hearted people across the country", right?
#17 Just a little bit of work
Once you’ve made up your mind, just do it!
Perhaps because Wu An has been the chairman for a while and has met many bigwigs and investors, he is already very skilled in organizing and building platforms and driving the pace of social public opinion.
The next day after returning to Nancheng, Wu An finished writing the plan for the "Love Platform".
He plans to provide a budget of 100 million yuan for the development, operation and promotion of the platform.
He wants the platform to collect files of poor families and children from all over the country and publish them on the platform. Then, through "cultivation" and "incentives", he wants people with philanthropic ideas to "adopt" the children he wants to help.
As long as someone is willing to do charity, the platform will provide services within its capacity, including tracking the conditions of poor families and the growth of children who need help.
Of course, support can be not only one-to-one, but also one-to-many, many-to-one, team-to-team, and so on.
A more ideal situation would be to mobilize campus groups, unions and other organizations to help.
In order to stimulate everyone's interest in helping others, you can also consider adding elements such as "cultivation" and "emotional connection" to make helping others more interesting and fulfilling.
Then, Wu An will use his social influence to take the lead in helping some children and try to encourage more people and more groups to participate.
As for other methods, we will pool our wisdom when the time comes.
After completing the planning, Wu An and Li Yuhua formally invited charitable groups in the society to join and started another business venture.
Perhaps because the conditions offered were relatively generous and "non-profit" charity was just, the project was rapidly advanced.
With the help of the technology of “Baotuan APP”, the platform framework was quickly built.
The subsequent difficulty is to obtain data on poor households and related children from local institutions in charge of poverty alleviation and education.
To this end, Wu An used his influence in society to personally contact relevant organizations and announced online that he planned to create a charity platform.
The news that Wu An, chairman of the "Baotuan APP", was going to engage in charity has caused some stir in society.
Some people say that Wu An is trying to create hype.
Some people say that it was Wu An who discovered the charity piece of cake.
Some people say that the capital headed by Wu An wants to tarnish the sacred cause of "charity".
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Wu An and Li Yuhua did not comment, but directly announced in the general guidelines of the newly established charity company that the company would not make a profit and would be operated with the personal income of Wu An and Li Yuhua as the fund.
Even if there is a way to make a profit in the future, we will invest all possible income into charity on the platform while maintaining daily operations.
As soon as this news came out, it caused a stir on the Internet.