The kindness of a middle school girl, dearly noted, from the Newspapers, translated…
A middle school student, Yong-Fang Huang was awarded the “Outstanding Youth Volunteer Award” earlier this week, her fellow recipient of the same award was Yeh. Huang used her spare time, to accompany the elderly who lived on their own whenever she had the time, and Yeh had edited, recorded the stories himself, and enriched the lives of children who are hearing impaired, the two of them stated, “Seeing the smiles on those we’d helped, we feel more blessed, compared to when it’s just us, feeling happy!”
Huang, a ninth grader from Fu-Ying Middle School, was affected by her mother, she’d been very compassionate, with a strong sense of justice from when she was younger, in her elementary years, she’d started tutoring the kids who were from the not-so-well-to-do backgrounds in her own community. Three years ago, when Huang was in the first year of middle school, she’d discovered that the elderly neighbor, the ninety-one year-old Wang, since his wife passed, he’d not gotten out of the house, she’d worked up the courage, and knocked on his door.
“The door’s not locked, let yourself in”, after Huang heard, she’d entered into his home, and that, was when she’d discovered, that the elderly had knee troubles, had been immobilized, and long-time bedridden, and he’d had troubles, getting up and answering his own doors, he’d had a ton of difficulties, just living from day to day, Huang used her spare time from school, to accompany, and help take care of him. And, not only was Grandpa Wang able to get outdoors to get some fresh air again, he was deeply affected by Huang, and started volunteering as an elderly person, helping more elderly who are living alone too.
Grandpa Wang, who’s nearly a complete illiterate, in order to thank Huang for her accompaniment, took three days, and wrote a letter of thanks to her, “Thank you, Fang, for putting the zest back into my life again, you’d made my life more meaningful”, this made Huang even more set on helping to give to the community eve more.
Yeh, in order to help the hearing impaired children to enrich their lives, to broaden their fields of vision, she’d edited and recorded down the stories. Yeh said, that she’d loved reciting regularly, that once she’d visited the hearing impaired foundation, she’d found that as the children heard her tell the stories, they could be calmer, and had that look of expectation in their eyes, and so, she was, inspired, and recorded down a volume of stories, “so the kids who are hearing impaired can have just as much fun in their childhood years too.”
Other than Huang and Yeh who’d won the awards, the Fu-Ying Middle School also received the award for being a role model for the service-oriented.
The principal of the school, Lee said, that the volunteer unit in the school had been running for fourteen years thus far, the school emphasized the character education of the students, more than the academics, that the most results of education is in passing the love, to wherever it is needed.
So, these, are the stories of students, schools that hopefully, can inspire others, and, all it takes, is still that thought of kindness, like the young woman who’d started showing care and concern toward the elderly man, and she’d led him out, back into the world, gotten him back into the world, and the other boy, he’d used his heart, and because he’d wanted the blind children to have as an enriching experience in life as the rest of the other children, that, was why he’d started recording those stories. And these are just two of many cases, of people who are giving to the world, giving what they can, and, no matter how little they’re able to give, they’d made a difference to the life of others, and that, is making a HUGE difference…
Life, the Obstacle Course 