"This cup of 'cat café' is 5 yuan, and the funds go into the community stray cat management fund." Coming to the Kongjiang No. 7 Village Neighborhood Committee of Yangpu Yanji New Village Sub-district, a community volunteer made coffee on the spot in the corner of the "Shared Cat Café".
The problem of "stray cats" seems to be a trivial matter in urban governance, but it is actually related to the quality of life of residents. The problem is "difficult to reconcile" and even leads to disputes in the neighborhood. Recently, Yanji Xincun Street has set up a "shared cat café" point with the neighborhood committee as the "base camp", inviting community residents to sit together, drink a cup of coffee, talk homely, and explore the innovative governance methods of stray cats in the community, build a beautiful home, and promote community harmony.
At the event site, residents were enthusiastic to check in in front of the "Shared Cat Cafe" point. On the day, as long as you check in, you can redeem a free cup of "cat café". In addition, the event set up pet safety knowledge popularization, consultation and other links, so that everyone has a deeper understanding of the scientific management methods of stray cats. The check-in form of diversified services attracts the extensive participation of different groups in the community to achieve effective publicity of the project, jointly promote the management of stray cats, and create a safer and more harmonious living environment for community residents.
The reporter learned that there are more than 30 stray cats in the Kongjiang Seven Village Community of Yanji Xincun Street. As the number of these "furry children" continues to grow, some residents feel that their normal lives are affected by it. The Kongjiang Seven Village Neighborhood Committee, together with the Yanji Xincun Street Comprehensive Social Work Station and the Yanji Community Public Welfare Foundation, jointly planned and launched an open recruitment of stray cat management group activities, invited enthusiastic residents to jointly form the "Guardian Cats" community autonomy service team, and deliberately set up the "Shared Cat Cafe" discussion point in the neighborhood committee for a long time.
The emergence of "shared cat cafes" is only the first step. In the future, the community plans to sterilize stray cats to reduce their breeding numbers; Set up centralized feeding points to provide a stable source of food for stray cats; At the same time, we actively promote the adoption activities and encourage community residents to participate in the adoption to provide a warm home for stray cats. In addition, the project will set up a special rescue fund to receive donations of funds and materials for the rescue of stray cats.
"We are currently in the open recruitment stage, and we plan to mobilize enthusiastic residents to join, recruit people in the community who are interested in the project, and form and set up a community self-government service team of no less than 10 people." The social worker of the Yanji Xincun Street Comprehensive Social Work Station told reporters that the service team will first focus on sterilizing and deworming stray cats in the community, and do a good job in the release and control of stray cats after rescue. At least 30 cats are expected to be rescued.
The community will also select appropriate public green space areas to carry out the layout and creation of centralized feeding points for stray cats in the community, and carry out feeding work for stray cats in the community in a planned manner. In addition, theme activities such as animal protection publicity and stray cat adoption will be planned and carried out every month to enhance the awareness of civilized pet raising and community affairs participation of community residents.
In order to ensure the long-term and stable operation of the project, the project will set up a special fund in the Yanji Community Public Welfare Foundation. The fund will be used to receive donations of funds and materials from all parties for the project, provide a solid material guarantee for the management of stray cats, and explore a set of effective community governance models for stray cats.
"In order to further increase the public awareness and influence of the project, we will also use stray cats as inspiration to design a number of promotional cultural and creative products." A young community volunteer said that he would design and produce 100 copies of the project LOGO, cat brand and other related cultural and creative derivatives based on the stray cats in the community, which will be used for event publicity and charity sales, convey the concept and story of stray cat rescue to more people, improve public awareness of the problem of stray cats, and raise funds and resources for the project. "These products will be used for project promotion, advocacy and fundraising." She said.
in Yangpu District
Increasingly, the community has become a self-governing and co-governed community.
The main front for carrying out volunteer service
Young people in the community are also getting more involved
Volunteer in the ranks
Contribute to the "golden ideas" of community governance
Looking forward to the homeless "hairy children" in the community
I can have a warm home!
Text/Image: Shen Ying
Editor: Wu Baixin
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