New crown pneumonia | Long-term ill single woman breaks the haze of pandemic, from not dare to go out to volunteer

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Written by: Huang Yongyu

2020-10-02 21:14

Last update date: 2020-10-02 21:21

In the past six months, Hong Kong’s new crown pneumonia epidemic has repeatedly occurred, the third wave of epidemics has fallen into the elderly and the death rate has risen sharply.

An elderly person living alone in his 60s admitted frankly that he was suffering from a long-term illness and stayed at home during the epidemic to "evade the epidemic." He did not dare to watch the news: "I don't want to watch the news. I'm afraid I will see how many people will leave today. Do you know that everyone has it?"

Later, she received support from social welfare organizations and regularly received food and vegetable bags, and she turned from beneficiaries into volunteers, delivering food and vegetable bags to those in need, hoping to bring warmth to others during the epidemic.

Don't dare to watch the news: I'm afraid of seeing several deaths

Ms. Wang, 63, is an elderly person living alone and suffers from a long-term illness.

Looking back at the epidemic for more than half a year, she confessed that she often dared not watch the news: "We are the first to die, because we have a long-term patient... Don't want to watch the news, I am afraid that there will be more than one today. I’m going to be worried about whether I know everyone else?"

Because she was worried about getting caught, she tried her best to avoid going out, but she was stuck at home for a long time, and she didn't talk to anyone. "I really just sit and spend time by myself every day," and dare not go to the crowded markets.

With the support of the Economic and Social Welfare Agency, she received a food aid "food package" to avoid the trouble of buying food, and sometimes she even shared the cooked food with her neighbors.

As a result of benefiting from the food and vegetable package project, Wang felt the feeling of "sending charcoal in the snow" and took the initiative to become a volunteer to participate in the program. He distributed the "food and vegetable package" to people in need. "If you can help others, you can help as much as possible, because You will never know that one day you might need help from others.”

There are fresh vegetables and meat in the "Dai Cai Bao".

(Photo provided by Swire Fund)

Next year, the impoverished family store-value card shopping plan will be launched

The new community project "Faith in the Future" launched by the Swire Group Charitable Trust Fund supports the disadvantaged groups in the community affected by the epidemic, including cooperation with St. James's FOOD-CO platform to distribute fresh food packages to those in need "It contains fresh vegetables and meat, so that people in need can continue to enjoy fresh and nutritious food.

Chen Tingting, the director of public welfare affairs of the fund, said that the "Faith and Hope for the Future" project will provide support to the communities most in need through cooperation with multiple organizations, and bring immediate and long-term positive impact to the community.

The latest project was launched in late September and donated HK$14 million, in addition to the continued distribution of fresh "food packs" to people in need in five districts (Sham Shui Po, Kwun Tong, Yau Tsim Mong, Central and Western District and Tung Chung) , Also plans to set up a total of 54 stalls in three districts (Tsuen Wan, Sham Shui Po and Tin Shui Wai) from March to December next year to provide stored-value cards for poor families so that they can exchange for free food and daily necessities of their choice. To reduce their financial burden.

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