"It's another summer vacation. Let us use vivid stories to plant a patriotic seed for the children. Let us use our sincere company to leave a warm time for the children. Let us take care of it carefully. Build a safe harbor for the children..." Volunteer's initiative is surging in the vast ocean of internet.
On July 16, "Protect Children's Safety and Grow Together"-the 2020 summer child care service activity was launched through CCTV, Tencent, and Phoenix Cloud. The "100 counties and thousands of villages" across the country were synchronized and coordinated in accordance with the requirements for normalized epidemic prevention and control. A variety of online and offline voluntary care services. The slogan of the event is "Love is everywhere". Shen Yueyue, chairman of the All-China Women's Federation, attended and announced the launch of the event. Huang Xiaowei, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, Vice Chairman, and First Secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Women's Federation attended the launching ceremony.
This year’s summer activities are co-sponsored by the All-China Women’s Federation, the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the National Health Commission, the State Sports General Administration, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and the 11 departments of the China Commission for Work. Co-organized by Children and Teenagers' Fund, CCTV, Tencent, and Phoenix.com, through extensive mobilization of social forces, linking resources from all parties, carrying out voluntary services, creating a good social atmosphere of caring for children, especially rural left-behind migrant children and children in need.
At the kick-off ceremony, the comrades in charge of the 11 organizers presented children's safety protection knowledge manuals and "HELLO kids" love packages to the children representatives present. Video courses on the protection of girls and children’s network safety were broadcast online. Experts explain relevant knowledge and specific prevention methods for children and parents on preventing sexual assault, staying away from bad information, preventing trafficking and accidents.
Summer vacation is a time when children suffer from drowning, traffic accidents, natural disasters and sexual assault, bullying, violence and other injuries. Especially in recent days, some provinces and cities have suffered severe floods caused by heavy rainfall. This year's event highlighted the content of child safety protection. At the live broadcast, the village women's federation chairperson, children director, female volunteers, college student volunteers, and lawyer volunteers shared their stories and insights about "protecting children's safety and growing together" through a connection. It is they who enter the community, the countryside, and the family, in the name of love and actions of love, sprinkle the bright sunshine on the children's childhood. In the simultaneous service activities in hundreds of counties and thousands of villages in various places, the children, accompanied by various volunteers, burst out happy smiles from the bottom of their hearts.
In order to implement the overall deployment of the activity, the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund and Beijing Yuanwang Charity Foundation recruited college students online to participate in the activity. 14,623 college students from 1,289 universities across the country registered online, and finally 2,000 outstanding college students were selected to participate in the activity through logistics. Give each college student a love bag, which contains more than 30 love gifts. At present, the first batch of 1,000 college student volunteers recruited have received their love bags and started to carry out partner assistance activities. The second batch of 1,000 college student volunteers recruited will begin accompany services in mid-July, benefiting 6,000 left-behind children and children in need.