Li Yichao: warm the hearts of poor left-behind children with companionship

"compared with material assistance, poor left-behind children need more care and care." After 10 years of traveling on the long road of helping students, Li Yichao, director of the toll station in Hebei-Shandong area of Xinglin Expressway, was deeply impressed.

One day in 2006, Li Yichao, who had just started work, walked into the door of a primary school in Neiqiu County with 50 yuan in his hand. Although his monthly salary was only 200 yuan at that time, Li Yichao insisted on providing one beat 4 to support the study and life of a poor child in the school. "when I was a child, the family was in poor conditions, and I knew best how the children longed for help," he said. "

Having taken the first step on the road of helping students, Li Yichao was duty-bound to look back. In the past 10 years, he has successively supported more than 10 poor children to complete their studies, and the transcripts sent back by the children from school have become the most beautiful youth memories of this post-80s boy. Under his infection, his colleagues also paid attention to this group of children. In 2013, Li Yichao launched a "one yuan a month donation" in the station. Everyone gave 10 yuan and he paid 5 yuan. Although the money was not much, he gathered sand into a tower, reducing the school burden for more poor children.

Recalling his first intention, Li Yichao said frankly that he just wanted to "donate money to do something good." it was not until the emergence of Xiao Tianhao (a pseudonym) that he paid more attention to a more sensitive and vulnerable group of poor children-the poor left-behind children.

Xiao Tianhao's father died young, and his mother worked outside the home all the year round and was raised by his grandmother from an early age. Due to the lack of companionship of his parents, he has become more and more self-abased in getting along with his peers. In 2013, Li Yichao picked up Xiao Tianhao to play on the station, but the fourth-grade boy just sat in a daze in the corner and said coldly for a long time, "I want to go to middle school and live on campus." then the students will not know that I have no parents. "

Xiao Tianhao's words deeply hurt Li Yichao's heart. "I didn't expect that the starting point for children to go to school was to leave home!" In order to get into Xiao Tianhao's heart, from then on, Li Yichao picked him up from time to time, told him stories and taught him to play basketball. He not only cared about his studies like his father, but also listened to him pour out his heart like a friend. Gradually, Li Yichao found that Xiao Tianhao had more smiles and more friends, and sometimes even stood him up because he "made an appointment with his classmates to ride a bike at the weekend."

The change of Xiao Tianhao made Li Yichao see the power of love. In order to warm the hearts of more poor left-behind children, in July this year, with the support of colleagues and friends, he set up the "Xingtai City Care and Care left-behind Family Service Association," the main content of which is "care and hope"-- not only in material aid, but also in time and psychological companionship and care. "Don't underestimate talking and playing games. Sometimes getting along like this can make your child happier than simply putting down a few hundred yuan." Li Yichao said: so far, the number of registered members of the association has grown to more than 70, with a total subsidy of more than 3000 yuan for five poor left-behind children and caring for their children for hundreds of hours. (reporter Zhang Huaichen)