Lu Daiqing is a student at the School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics. She collects waste products to raise money for the Love Foundation. He is also one of the founders of the Hospital Love Foundation.
The Love Foundation was established in 2003. In the past two years, students have used the money raised by collecting and selling waste products to support six poor children in Lishui Mountain area of Zhejiang Province, and also sponsored 28 students from poor families to go home during the Spring Festival.
At the beginning of the new school year in 2003, the freshmen of Foreign Languages Institute found that the proportion of poor students in the college was very high, and some students' families were very difficult. Students really want to help these poor students with their own actions. But where does the money come from? Everyone thought of the old newspapers and empty drink bottles that were discarded in the dormitory on weekdays. "Can these waste products be collected, sold after many a mickle makes a mickle, and turned into a fund for poverty alleviation?" A classmate's proposal reminded everyone.
As a result, these students began to publicize in each dormitory of the school, so that everyone can pay attention to collecting "love garbage" at ordinary times. Slowly, the students of the Foreign Languages Institute began to consciously put the waste newspapers, cans and plastic bottles in the dormitory in the designated places, while the members of the Love Foundation were responsible for recycling and selling them at a fixed time every month. "At the beginning, only five or six people participated in this activity, and now more than 40 people have participated in/kloc-0." Ding Ling, the current president of Love Foundation, said that for the first time, students only got 14.5 yuan.
In the summer vacation of 2004, 0/0 students from College/KLOC went to Zhu Long Central Primary School in Longquan City to teach, and saw that some students in the school were facing dropping out of school due to family difficulties. After returning to school, they sent the accumulated waste 900 yuan money to the school and paid the tuition fees for three students for one year. By March this year, college students had sponsored six poor students living in Dragon Central Primary School. "Now students are used to keeping these things and waiting for unified recycling." A classmate said. When the college welcomed the new students last year, students arranged for people to carry big bags to collect beverage bottles and waste newspapers on the ground while receiving the new students. Now the college holds large-scale activities, and students are always seen grabbing "waste products".
In addition to collecting and selling waste products, they also make their own handicrafts, hold a "love auction" at school, sell old things at the school's "flea market", and run donated love stacks in the form of rental to raise funds.
From the initial tens of dollars to thousands of dollars now, the Love Foundation has been growing with the efforts of the students, and the baton of love has been continuously passed on in the college. Every year, when new students enter school, the Love Foundation recruits new members, and the students also learn a set of standardized management methods, such as separating income and expenditure, regularly publicizing income and expenditure, and approving every expenditure.
Now students from other colleges in the school have also developed from wait-and-see to active participation. According to statistics, since its establishment, Love Foundation has raised more than RMB 1000 and donated more than RMB 8,000.
"What is important is that students not only cultivate the awareness of environmental protection and economy in a subtle way, but also learn to care about society and others." Duan, who used to be a counselor at the Foreign Languages Institute, said that although recycling garbage is sometimes dirty and tiring, and it often delays the time for eating and entertainment, students still have a sense of accomplishment.