Chen Canying: poor households who lack skills become old-age caregivers

Poor households who lack skills become old-age caregivers.

-- experience of poverty-stricken areas in Luoxiao Mountain

Xinhua News Agency, Nanchang, December 18 (Reporter Yuan Huijing) "Grandma, I heard that you have a pain in your leg and joint recently. Let me make you a hot compress." Chen Canying, 53, went to the bedside of one of the cadets and whispered.

This is what the reporter saw a few days ago in the primary appraisal examination room for old-age caregivers in the eighth phase of Jiangxi Ji'an Precision Poverty Alleviation Project. Students are simulating the scene of caring for the elderly. The illiterate Chen Canying took the exam for the first time in her life, and her hands trembled with nervousness.

Chen Canying also took the exam with more than 150 poor families from Luoxiaoshan concentrated areas with special difficulties.

At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs carried out vocational skills training and employment recommendation for thousands of old-age care workers in Ji'an, Hunan, and Ganzhou, Jiangxi, to solve the problem of lifting poor people out of poverty by teaching people to fish.

According to Lin Wen, an on-site examiner and staff member of the training Center of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, students need to pass theoretical and practical examinations in order to obtain completion certificates and state-recognized professional qualifications, and civil affairs departments will recommend qualified students to work in pension institutions in Jiangxi, Hunan and its surrounding provinces and cities. "more than 30 of the students are illiterate. for the first time, we have set up a small examination room for the theory examination to help the students answer the questions."

"it is hoped that training can become a link between poverty alleviation targets who are eager to have skills on one end and grass-roots pension institutions that lack professional caregivers at the other end." Feng Yaping, director of the Planning and Finance Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said.

In order to minimize the burden of students in poor areas, the training course is free of training fees, information fees, accommodation and meals for all students.

In early 2014, Liang Zhenxiu, a villager from Shuikou Village, Huangkeng Township, Suichuan County, Jiangxi Province, spent 70,000 to 80,000 yuan on medical expenses because of a serious illness, which made families with few savings all of a sudden. Liang Zhenxiu said: "We have no skills and no means to make money in the countryside. We are living a tight life."

In April this year, she heard from township cadres that there was a training course for old-age caregivers, so she signed up as soon as possible. Because of her hard study and excellent examination results, she was rated as an excellent student in the current period.

"only after training did I find that taking care of the elderly is fastidious in everything from eating to bathing." Liang Zhenxiu said.

Today, Liang Zhenxiu works in a nursing home in Huangkeng Township and earns nearly 3,000 yuan a month. What makes her happier is that it takes only 10 minutes to ride an electric bike from the nursing home to home, taking care of her family and making money.

According to the statistics of Jiangxi Provincial Civil Affairs Department, so far, 244 Jiangxi trainees have successfully docked with local old-age care institutions.

"I believe that in the near future, more and more 'Liang Zhenxiu' will embark on the road to getting rid of poverty." Liu Hefang, secretary of the party committee of Huangkeng Township, said.