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The new pants have long legs, the sweater has a hole, the shirt buttons are off, the bag zipper is broken... In the Baojiayun community of Shounan Subdistrict, Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, such troubles are not a problem at all. As long as you get the community "one yuan tailor shop" every Tuesday, 1 yuan can easily get it.
As the new year draws to a close, three volunteers also "go door-to-door to work", so that special groups with leg and foot inconvenience can enjoy such convenient services.
Volunteer Ding Suying (first from right) came to the door to sew clothes for the elderly
Volunteers from the "Tailor Shop" come to the door
In one morning, 15 pieces of clothing were sewn up
"Master, I'm here to serve you!" Is there anything in the house that needs to be sewn up? ”
"I have long heard that there is a one-dollar tailor shop in our community, and it is very good that you have come to the door to serve!"
On January 26, Ding Suying, a volunteer at the "One Yuan Tailor Shop", knocked on the home of fu Dongzhong, an 88-year-old man in the community. Knowing her intentions, the old man welcomed her into the house warmly.
"Two days ago, I had a pair of sleeves that went off the line, just to help me deal with it!" "Soon, I'll deal with you right away!" With that, Ding Suying was busy and finished in just a few minutes.
Early in the morning, the three aunts of the Yiyuan tailor shop "divided into three roads" to provide "door-to-door service" to special groups in the jurisdiction. In the morning, the "business" was good, they went to 12 households, and sewed 15 pieces of clothing on the spot.
The 94-year-old Bogende and his 93-year-old wife Huang Agui are the old life stars in the community, and the two elderly people are still healthy, but the seams have long been weak. "In the past few years, the eyes and ears were not good, and needlework could not be done at all. I can't bear to throw away some old clothes at home, and it's just right to make cuffs! The old man took out an old dress, and in less time, Ding Suying made two pairs of sleeves.
"At that time, such a coat was taken out and worn during the New Year's Festival. Although the living conditions are better now, the tradition of frugality cannot be lost! You see, we skillful tailors do this, this coat can be worn again! Bao Zhengfang, 85, was satisfied with a "refurbished" coat.
Ding Suying and volunteers at the "One Yuan Tailor Shop" (file photo)
From "Weekly Opening" to "Door-to-Door Service"
Others took the bus to sew jeans
Baojiayun community is a mixed community of demolition and resettlement and commercial and residential type, with more than 500 elderly people over 60 years old. Most of the elderly live frugally, their clothes are torn and reluctant to throw away, but there are many inconveniences in repairing themselves.
In December 2019, the community "One Yuan Tailor Shop" came into being, providing residents with various services such as sewing buckles, locking edges, changing zippers, changing pants cuffs, and repairing holes. Each service is only charged 1 yuan, except for the daily material fees required by the tailor shop, etc., and the rest is used as public welfare funds.
Every Tuesday is the day when the one-yuan tailor shop is "open", and more and more residents come to repair it, and even other residents of the community come to it.
"When it first opened, some residents were embarrassed to bring it, and slowly, more and more people knew about it, and the fame of our tailor shop became more and more famous." Sometimes when we can't finish the afternoon, we take the work back and do it. Ding Suying said that once she encountered a middle-aged man taking a bus from Jiangshan to the Baojiayun community and deliberately changed a pair of jeans." He said the jeans were very memorable, and that he had misremembered the time when he first came, and that time he had deliberately pinched the dot. ”
"It's almost the New Year, there are always some people in the family who need to be sewn and mended, some elderly people are old, some people have inconvenient legs and feet, so we will change the door-to-door service!" Ding Suying told reporters that in the future, they will also launch an "appointment" service to provide more convenience for residents of the jurisdiction with inconvenient legs and feet.
Reporter Xue Caosheng Correspondent Zhang Chenghao Chen Lili