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Who says inch grass heart, repay the three spring sunshine

- a group of mountain children in Shenzhen

Crows have the grace of feeding. When a child from the countryside has made a little success after years of hard work, what will he do? Buy a car, buy a mansion, taste all the food, travel all over the world, of course, nothing wrong with these; but there is a silent man, he is willing to dedication, July 9, 2005 to 11, he organized a unique activities - "inch grass heart"! Summer camp, he invited his hometown of Sanyang Town, Jingshan County, Hubei Province, nearly thirty teachers and students went to Shenzhen, to carry out bird-watching as the theme of environmental activities. This activity in the two civil environmental protection organizations "Green River" and "Shenzhen Bird Watching Association" volunteers to help, a complete success.

The successful contributor is Zhan Congxu, and his friends used to call him by his screen name "Zanba". Zanba is an active member of Green River, and also a key member of Shenzhen Bird Watching Association. Zanba is not only an active member of "Green River", but also the main member of "Shenzhen Bird Watching Association". Tsampa will not only earn money, but also more good people, I call him "rich conscience of the rich".

(A) Look at the world with a pair of amazing eyes

The children just got off the train were full of curiosity into the training classroom of the "Shenzhen Birdwatching Association".

"Students, how many of you have never been on a train?" asked Xu Meng, president of the Birdwatching Association. The president of the Birdwatcher's Association, Xu Meng, asked.

Most of the children raised their hands. I sat at the back of the classroom and looked up and forward, only to see dark little arms stretched out in unison; they certainly hadn't had the opportunity to ride a train. Farmers' incomes are increasing every year, but they always still can't get out of the subsistence level, even if they have some spare money, who will spare the children to take the train to see outside? Even if they have some money left over, who would be willing to take their children on a train to see the outside world? To prevent illnesses, and even more importantly, to save up for their children's education, farmers would have smiles on their faces, but their hearts are always bitter. I suddenly a little jealous of these children, not for anything else, I was 18 years old before I saw the first real train, the long train from the distance Xu Xu come I can not forget even now.

"Classmates, you say Shenzhen is good ah? What are the characteristics?" Xu Meng asked again.

"There are many tall buildings in Shenzhen." "There are many flowers and lawns along the roads in Shenzhen." "There are many small cars in Shenzhen." The children almost rushed to answer. They must not have seen the skyscrapers towering over the clouds, nor would they have seen so many flowers blooming in all directions, nor would they have seen the cars speeding along the highway like a river of carp.

In the next few days, the children saw the sea, the volunteers and the children jumped into the waves of the turquoise blue water, the children's joy is difficult to express, they cheered, they play, they play. This trip to Shenzhen is happier than the New Year for them.

Some people might say that it's more affordable to directly subsidize the kids than to let them travel. If we don't think about it, it's not a bad idea. Poor kids are short of money, and they still need money to go to school, so summer camps are a bit of a luxury for them. But if we think about it, the situation changes. As the old saying goes, "Hearing is not believing, seeing is believing." The developed cityscape of Shenzhen must have left a deep impression on the children, and as long as they have the heart, they will redesign their own goals in life, and they will work hard to achieve them. Although I could skillfully locate most countries on a map, the America and Europe of books had little to do with me, nor did Beijing and Shanghai, and my occasional fantasies could easily dissipate in the ice of my humble home. Until the 18-year-old first stepped into the city, my outlook on life has since completely changed, and fate has since taken a huge turn.

The purpose of the "Grasshopper Heart" campaign is also very simple, even if there is a child who has changed his life because of Shenzhen, I think it is enough. But it's not enough to just broaden the children's horizons, it's a much bigger goal to teach them how to be human beings.

(2) In fact, it is to educate themselves to be environmentally friendly

The theme of the "inch grass heart" activities is environmental protection, the content of the bird watching is mainly.

Birdwatching and environmental protection seem to be two different things, in-depth, only have experience. Birdwatching a long time, the relationship between people and birds is getting closer and closer, and in the end will even love birds. When a person falls in love with birds, he will never go to fight birds and harm birds, but will take all kinds of measures to protect birds. Birders "Tianya Ranger" rescued a purple whistling thrush chicks, fed them for a month, and released them in the Ma Ruanshan Valley. After a month of conservation, even the child and the bird have feelings, the child always urged his father to come to Ma Lang Shan to see the purple whistling thrush. Taking the opportunity of coming to Dameisha beach, several of us birders came to MaLuanShan, "Tianya Ranger" really found the purple whistling thrush in the bushes, he was so excited that he was screaming and jumping in front of me, and I only cared about looking at him, and when I wanted to look at the bird, the purple whistling thrush was drilling into the forest in a second. That's how birders love birds, and birds love nature.

I was amazed at how much the children of Sanyang Township knew about birds. Whether in the mangrove forests or in Lychee Park, they carried tiny binoculars, and could name almost every kind of bird, which is hard for people who don't love birds to do, and if they could do it, would the children shoot birds again? I look at these kids and think about my own past, and feel a little guilty. When I was their age, I roamed the hills with a slingshot and a clip, hunting birds. If the birds have souls, when I die, I'm not complaining about my eyes.

The children said the activity was very rewarding, and my reward was even greater.

In Dameisha Beach Park, Tsampa's activity agenda includes a "picking up garbage". I've read about volunteers picking up garbage in the newspaper, and I've read about garbage in my textbooks, but I've never personally participated in a garbage picking activity. I'm also an educator, and I'm ashamed to say that I've done more to educate others and less to do it myself. I was also the leader of a group of four students.

The weekend at Dameisha is very crowded, and the beach is full of swimmers. Into the beach, a variety of confetti and garbage everywhere, four children seriously pick up the garbage, lying on the beach sunbathing tourists from time to time to cast a surprised look. In the soft sand, there is only one feeling, the quality of the country's people from civilization there is still a big piece of distance. Soon, brought a plastic bag will be filled with garbage, the children are very happy, I am also happy. For me, this is the first time in my life that picking up garbage is not just a matter for the cleaners, but for everyone. Taking the children to pick up garbage doesn't change anything, but as long as the children realize that littering is shameful, the purpose of the activity is achieved. As the children bounced ahead, I thought to myself, "We have a long way to go in environmental education.

(3) Tribute to Comrade Xiaoping

Shenzhen owes its development to the great Comrade Deng Xiaoping, who in 1979 drew a circle on the Chinese side of the mainland next to Hong Kong, and since then, modern Shenzhen has formally entered the stage of history. Almost every guest to Shenzhen, will look at Comrade Xiaoping, these children in the town of Sanyang certainly will not be an exception.

Shenzhen people's love for Xiaoping is very sincere, every Qingming or Xiaoping's birth anniversary, the public spontaneously come to condole with the great leader, flowers piled up, every person who passes by the giant portrait of Xiaoping will pay tribute. the morning of July 10th, under the leadership of Zanba, more than twenty teachers and students together in a line upright, holding flowers, salute to Comrade Xiaoping. At that moment, the children's expressions were serious, the volunteers stood to the side, the sun was shining, but the children did not complain. Comrade Xiaoping once said, "Education should start with the children"; he also said, "Education should be oriented towards modernization, the world and the future." He smiled in the face of the children, I believe that the children in speechless to understand the essence of Xiaoping's speech.

This flower dedication is unique, Zanba to "Shenzhen Bird Watching Association" and "Green River" two civil society organizations in the dual membership of the organization of this patriotic activities, there is no usual see what a huge start ceremony, there is no what has a There was no big launching ceremony as usual, nor any official with status to attend the speech, everything was carried out quietly. I have participated in a number of patriotic activities in my work capacity, but unfortunately, the overly formalized stuff always failed to arouse my interest. This time is different, looking at the children with a small face in the face of Comrade Xiaoping, my heart surging, after all, this is also my first serious to visit Comrade Xiaoping, usually come and go, only the statue of Comrade Xiaoping as a picture. Without Xiaoping, there is no Shenzhen; without Shenzhen, there is no me today.

In the dark night, the children's loud voices are still clear in the ears, "I swear, I volunteer to be a bird lover, do not hit the birds, protect the birds, I am willing to be an environmentalist for life."

The golden sunlight shines on the children's tender faces. When Clinton was received by Kennedy, he vowed to be the president of the United States in the future; today, these children are facing the great Comrade Xiaoping, who can predict whether a great man will appear among the children in the future?

Originally a volunteer, I did not realize that the impact on myself may be even greater than the children. In the baptism of the soul, to be such a volunteer is a great happiness.

(D) Zanba the man

For the rich, Shenzhen is a world of flowers. The luxury of the material world and corrupt spiritual culture can soon make people deep in it, and then expensive cars Shenzhen can buy, and then luxury villas Shenzhen's valleys and seashore are also available, the era of private jets has arrived, the consumption of the festival escalation, so to speak, how much money is not enough to spend, this is not an exaggeration. Then we are not therefore endlessly consumed in materialism? The answer is no, tsampa do it is more typical.

Tsampa and I talked about the story of his hometown of Sanyang, a small town where people also had nothing to do and spent their time squandering. Tsampa said he was saddened by this, but there was nothing he could do about it. In May 2005, Zanba and Xu Meng led some members of the Shenzhen Bird Watching Association to the elementary school in Sanyang town to carry out the first phase of the "Heart of Grass" program, in which they gave bird training courses to primary school students in Sanyang town, which was warmly welcomed by the students and teachers. Tsampa funded the redecoration of part of the school's teaching infrastructure and the construction of the school library. Immediately after, Tsampa kindly invited more than 30 teachers and students from the elementary school in Sanyang Town to come to Shenzhen to participate in the second phase of the "Inchgrass Heart" activity in July.

Tsampa why? For the sake of name, he can not get; for the sake of profit, this is a throw money.

Ten thousand hectares of good land, three meals a day; a thousand buildings, seven feet of sleep at night. When a person's subsistence solution, food and clothing, after all levels of people will pursue the realization of personal value issues. The realization of this value, need energy, but also need intelligence. Foolish rich people will be addicted to alcohol and sex can not be extricated, "Jin Ping Mei" in the Simon Qing is the best portrayal. Zanba is very good at commanding his own life, he cultivates his body, he is a member of the Shenzhen Bicycle Association, he is a member of the Shenzhen Bird Watching Association, he also participates in other health activities, the pursuit of elegant urban lifestyle; he cares about the community, he is a member of the civil environmental protection organization "Green River", and has gone to Cocoanutli to pay attention to the ecology of the natural world. A Shenzhen entrepreneur can do all this, rare and precious.

Tsampa is doing small things, but how many people can do these small things? I admire him from the bottom of my heart, because I have always had a wish to save up a sum of money to repair the damaged school building of my alma mater elementary school. in early 2005, back to his hometown, in the snow stood in front of his alma mater school, the sorrows, the school building in addition to a layer of bricks pasted on the outer wall, and twenty years ago when I left there was no change. I vowed that I would do one thing in this life. Tsampa's gesture infected me, he can do it big, I will do it small, small is not afraid, just do it. What we seek is not the icing on the cake, but the snow.

Traditional culture is concerned about the governance of the country and the world, even Li Qingzhao shouted "life as a man, death is also a ghost," the great cause of the state of the world, someone to do, we are just ordinary people want to do some of the small things to make themselves happy. Never ask for more in nature and society, we take food from the land to live, from others to receive education to enrich themselves, from everyone around us to earn their own pocketbook, one day we are rich, open the barn to help food, which is how pleasant. It is always a pleasure to help others, so that when we leave this world, we will die without regret.

Tsampa, I say, is an example.

V) Our spiritual home

"Inch grass heart" activities from the first day, the Shenzhen Bird Watching Association of bird volunteers carried a long gun, busy before and after the children were infected by the enthusiasm of the volunteers, and soon turned from unfamiliar visitors into a small master of the Bird Club.

The Bird Club is a spontaneous bird-loving organization. A young journalist asked me why I joined this organization. I said because the Bird Club is a bird watching and bird loving organization, the ethical basis of this organization must be the never-ending pursuit of "truth, goodness and beauty", rejecting "falsehood, ugliness and evil", and the significance of life all lies in this, what reason do I have not to join this organization, and besides I really Besides, I really like birds. From the first day I joined the Bird Club, I really fell in love with this organization, where there is no hierarchical status difference, no difference between the rich and the poor, all people come together for the *** same hobby, and have a good time. Bird will have no conflict of interest, there is no personal discrimination, in Shenzhen, a world away from the city, the bird will be a resting place for our soul.

Bird club people help each other, every time you travel to watch birds, have a car family with barefoot family, experienced old bird friends will take great pains to explain to the new bird friends a variety of bird knowledge, I was very much benefited by it. In the morning to rush to the "grass heart" activity base, bird friends "old handsome" took the initiative to call me, driving me there, and at night also sent me home, I and the old handsome just the second time we met, you say this is not the spirit of the bird will help each other?

The "Grasshopper's Heart" campaign was launched on the weekend, and the bird volunteers gave up their rest time to devote themselves to the campaign. The old bird friends "Strong", "the end of the world ranger", "Jerry", "stupid color donkey" and "Old Handsome" did not stop, always without a word, with the camera to record the history of the activities, they told me with their actions, in the Bird Club, just give, do not count the return. In them, I found that giving is joy, dedication is happiness. There is a big sister Huang, in the few times I participated in the activities, can see her figure, hard work to organize housekeeping, silent.

If the Bird Club is a family, then I say the core member must be Xu Meng. President Xu Meng registered the Shenzhen Bird Watching Association, so that bird lovers have found a home. I say Xu Meng has extraordinary love and a sense of responsibility beyond the ordinary. Love, is that she can actively participate in the public welfare, no pay without complaint; sense of responsibility, is that the vast majority of activities are Xu Meng hosted, there is no weekend, more and more activities, to be able to persistently adhere to is not a sense of responsibility what else can it be? I often do not participate in activities, but the lead person does not participate in activities line?

In the bird will play a long time, the whole person is in a blanket of happiness, there are entrepreneurs, technical people, teachers, civil servants, cultural workers, people from all walks of life, we communicate together, constructed a cozy little world. Linger in the bird will, often happy.

(F) Let the world be full of love

The children of Sanyang Township are shenzhen play happily.

This activity also has a content, "Green River" and "Shenzhen Birdwatching Association" members will voluntarily donate books. 8 evening, bird members "Sun Bird" in the Nanshan District, opened a book bar. On the evening of the 8th, a member of the Bird Club, "Sun Bird", opened a book bar in Nanshan District, and friends of the Bird Club went there to cheer up, and everyone would voluntarily donate books on that evening. In the book bar, one after another friends from all walks of life brought a lot of books, and some strangers even brought a bag full of good books to donate to the children in Sanyang Township free of charge. As long as everyone takes out a book, a small library will soon be established; as long as everyone gives a little love, the world will become a beautiful paradise.

The Sun Birds asked each book donor to write a few words on the cover of the book, and I wrote, "Knowledge changes destiny". I don't know which child will read my book, but I'm sure there will be a smart child who will contemplate the words I wrote. These dark mountain children are a reminder of my past. More than twenty years ago, I was like them, longing for the outside world. The only thing that can change oneself is knowledge; the only thing that can change this society is knowledge. Since I y realize the importance of knowledge, I and books, and it is because I and books, I am all the way through the thorns and thistles, from the country's northernmost to the southernmost.

On the second day of the "Grasshopper's Heart" campaign, more than 1,000 books donated by Green River and Shenzhen Birdwatching Association were packed neatly and will be returned to Sanyang with the children. Town. The book represents not only knowledge, but also the strong love of Shenzhen people.

The event will always be over, and now I expect more and more people from Shenzhen like Zanba, and more and more environmental organizations like Green River and Shenzhen Bird Watching Association.

It takes everyone to save the planet.