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Set up a volunteer service team to "care for the future" and set up a "Teacher Lai's studio" to teach children about the rule of law, provide legal aid, provide psychological counseling and other services...... Over the past 20 years, Lai Jiaming, assistant third-level senior procurator of the People's Procuratorate of Yongfu County, Guilin City, has been on the front line of caring for the healthy growth of minors, saving countless lost children and sowing the seeds of hope in their lives.
Lai Jiaming (front) walks on his way to a rule of law class. Photo by Liu Jiaoqing
In Yongfu County, Guilin City, there is such a person, who has been struggling on the front line of caring for the healthy growth of minors for 20 years, and has guarded the light of countless children's growth with his love and persistence. He is Lai Jiaming, the third-level senior prosecutor assistant of the Yongfu County People's Procuratorate who will be on the "China Good People List" in the second quarter of 2024, and he is also the "Teacher Lai" in the mouths of countless children.
Strengthen the original intention and illuminate the lost life
In 2004, Lai Jiaming assisted the procuratorate in a case in which a 16-year-old boy was detained in a detention center for wounding others, and the boy's mother went to visit him. For more than ten minutes, the mother and son hugged and cried across the iron fence, and did not say a word the whole time.
This scene deeply touched Lai Jiaming. He realized that universal education on the rule of law might be able to reduce the occurrence of such tragedies and save more families. So he decided to go into the school and teach the children the rule of law, hoping to help the lost children through the guidance of the rule of law education.
In 2004, Lai Jiaming initiated and established the "Care for the Future" Volunteer Service Team, the first volunteer service organization in Guilin that focuses on caring for the healthy growth of minors. In order to send the knowledge of the rule of law deep into the mountains and to every child, Lai Jiaming and the volunteer service team began a 20-year trek through mountains and rivers to bring love and hope to more children. "There are now about 200 volunteers, including prosecutors, veterans, teachers, etc., and more and more people are participating in the 'Care for the Future' volunteer service." Lai Jiaming said.
In 2006, the principal of Lamu Primary School in Baoli Town, Yongfu County, rode a bicycle to the procuratorate to find Lai Jiaming, and wanted to ask the volunteer service team to go to the school to teach the children a lesson on the rule of law, and Lai Jiaming agreed.
Lamu Primary School is a remote rural primary school with just over 140 students, and the vast majority of the children are left-behind children. In order to welcome the teachers from the county, the school hung a new red flag and the children wore red scarves. However, in the middle of the playground class, it suddenly rained, and Lai Jiaming was afraid that the children would get wet, so he asked, "Shall I come back to teach you next time?" Instead of answering immediately, the children ran into the classroom on the first floor to continue listening to him. After class, to express their gratitude, the children sang the national anthem in unison. Recalling this scene, Lai Jiaming couldn't help himself: "Hearing the children's singing and looking at the national flag outside the window, my tears also flowed. ”
Speaking of his original intention, Lai Jiaming took out a plate, which contained candy with blurred packaging, a small head rope, and a crumpled note...... "When I left, the children gave me their most precious things," he says. Seeing their thirst for knowledge and reluctant eyes, my team members and I strengthened our original intention of caring for our children's future. ”
Sow Hope and Explore Rule of Law Education
In order to better popularize the education of the rule of law, Lai Jiaming recorded his study of the rule of law course and his reflections and insights after class. 48 topics, 160,000 words of manuscript, looking back on the 20 years of caring for minors, he has his own experience: "To popularize the rule of law curriculum for children, we must not follow the formality, but the heart, so that the children can have something after listening to the class." ”
Let the children listen, understand, and want to listen, which is Lai Jiaming's requirement for the rule of law class. "Children are naïve and sometimes they just need the right guidance from us. Telling children positive stories about the outside world will plant seeds of hope in their hearts. Lai Jiaming said.
In the classroom, Lai Jiaming often tells his own stories, guides the children to understand the law, and teaches them to use legal weapons to protect themselves. He said that the most popular form of the curriculum was to engage the children through a moot court sitcom.
In order to ensure the effectiveness of the rule of law class, Lai Jiaming and the volunteer service team will distribute feedback forms after class to listen to the suggestions of children, parents and schools, and also place a "teacher Lai's mailbox" in the school, so that children can write to the volunteer service team for help if they have questions.
Lai Jiaming understands that many children go astray, often because their psychological wounds are not healed in time. Therefore, he successively established the "Teacher Lai Studio", opened the "Teacher Lai Mailbox", and opened the "Teacher Lai Classroom" in 8 schools and nursing bases in Guilin City and Yongfu County, and carried out psychological counseling for children through the combination of legal education and psychological counseling, so as to help them build self-confidence and regain their love for life. He also led the team to unite a number of departments, as well as social groups such as Renshe Social Workers and Xiaoqingsong Psychological Counseling Agency, to form the "Unchecked Alliance" and set up township family education contact points to protect the healthy growth of minors in various ways.
With years of hard work, the "Care for the Future" volunteer service team and "Teacher Lai's Studio" have become a harbor for many children's souls.
In 2012, Lai Jiaming and the volunteer service team focused on a girl who was abandoned by her parents after she was born, and her adoptive father died of illness when she was 5 years old, leaving her to live with her grandmother in her 70s. When the girl was 11 years old, her grandmother broke her leg, and she took on the burden of the family at an early age.
After learning about the girl's experience, Lai Jiaming actively reported to the unit, and the procuratorates of Guilin City and Yongfu County followed up and helped the girl. When the girl was considered dropping out of school because of discrimination due to her life experience, Lai Jiaming gave psychological counseling in time and encouraged her to use knowledge to change her fate. In 2014, the girl's deeds of overcoming difficulties and persisting in learning were awarded the "First Youth Role Model in Guangxi", and in 2019, she was admitted to Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine with excellent results in the college entrance examination. In her letter of thanks to Lai Jiaming and the volunteer service team, she wrote: "I will remember these care and warmth, and when I grow up, I will help more people in need like you." ”
"The girl knows how to be grateful and is now part of the volunteer team." Speaking of her, Lai Jiaming was very pleased.
Convey warmth and protect the dream of innocence
Lai Jiaming knows that the rule of law classroom is only a part of the rule of law education, and the impact is limited.
Over the past 20 years, Lai Jiaming and his volunteer service team have visited more than 100 primary and secondary schools in Guilin, carried out more than 2,000 rule of law activities, more than 600,000 teachers, students and parents have listened to their classes, rescued and helped more than 230 juveniles with serious bad behavior, funded and helped more than 120 orphans, poor students and children of prisoners, and received more than 10,000 letters, phone calls and WeChat messages from students, parents and teachers. Their efforts have brought the healthy growth of countless children and the happiness and tranquility of countless families.
In the card he received, Lai was deeply touched to see a child writing to him and the volunteer team, saying that they were like dandelions, bringing seeds of hope to all those in need. In 2022, Lai Jiaming took the lead in forming the Dandelion Singing Troupe, which is a hope choir formed by more than 40 ethnic minority children and left-behind children from Baoli Town Central Primary School.
On the eve of Children's Day 2024, Vinh Phuc Middle School held an open day event, and Lai Jiaming wanted to bring the Dandelion Singing Group to the performance, but was told that he could not bring all the children on stage due to stage restrictions. Thinking of the children's expectant eyes, Lai Jiaming and the volunteer service team worked hard, and finally all the children came to the stage to sing, and the children's singing resounded throughout the campus, deeply touching everyone at the scene.
Liao Xinyue, assistant to the fifth-level prosecutor of the Yongfu County People's Procuratorate, who is also a member of the volunteer service team, told reporters: "I really started to go into the classroom to teach the rule of law to children because that chorus touched me a lot. ”
"Caring for the future" has a long way to go, and Lai Jiaming and his team have been on the road. Lai Jiaming said: "Although I am about to say goodbye to my career as a prosecutor, I will continue to take the rule of law class, and protecting the healthy growth of minors is a career I love and my mission in life." ”
【Kind words】
Colleague Liao Xinyue: Teacher Lai led us to send a little more warmth to the children, maybe we can let them embark on a different path in life. I am glad that I have relied on a mentor like my teacher to guide me in my career, which has made me more aware of the true meaning of people's procurators serving the people.
Student Yang Mingrui: From decadence to successful admission to the first batch of exemplary high schools in Guangxi - Guilin No. 18 Middle School, it is inseparable from the care and help of Mr. Lai's studio, it is Mr. Lai's love and patience that lights the beacon for a lost child, and it is his earnest teaching that builds a path to success for me. Thank you, Mr. Lai!