爱传千里外行云流水间

——记安正慈善基金会“筑梦计划”走进甘肃渭源坡儿小学

Text/品牌管理中心汪贵平

2013年6月6日，由企业文化部发起的爱心捐赠活动在安正时尚集团上海运营总部一楼大厅举行，安正大家庭的成员们为甘肃省渭源县坡儿小学的孩子们贡献了自己的一份爱心。2013年7月4日，安正时尚集团的三位爱心大使带着这份爱心千里奔赴甘肃，为坡儿小学的孩子们带去这份安正之爱。

不惧千里因为有你

7月4日下午两点，安正时尚集团的三位爱心大使（分别是来自总裁办的高敏、玖姿品牌事业部的严芳芳以及尹默品牌事业部的倪蓉婷）及两位工作人员带着所有安正人的满满关爱前往甘肃。虽然飞机晚点，却也终于在晚上九点到达了兰州。一下飞机竟惊奇的发现这边的天还是亮着的！着实让我们吃了一惊。随后乘坐大巴一个半小时候到达兰州市区，困得不行的一群人随便找了个地方住下，只等第二天一大早奔赴目的地——渭源县。

第二天早上一大早几个人便奔赴兰州汽车站开始赶往渭源。从兰州到渭源三个半小时的车程，一路上发现此地果然不愧是大西北，满眼的黄土中分布着星星点点的绿，大部分的黄土还是不得遮掩裸露在世人面前。

一路上汽车飞驰而过便能引起一捧黄沙“飞入云霄”，成为了漫天灰尘。黄土高坡虽长不了参天大树，但扎根在这片黄土地中的西瓜却长得异常诱人。第一次见到西瓜卧在地里的我们惊奇得大叫，直到眼睛盯西瓜盯到累得不行，爱心大使们一个个才肯昏睡。汽车一路东行，一觉醒来满眼看到的已不再是黄沙满天飞的景色，而是漫山遍野的绿，让我们怀疑是不是来到了夏季的草原，鲜绿欲滴，无穷无尽。窗外翠绿的田野中不时的闪过一座座白墙、红瓦的小房子，和着绿色的田野，好不相称。

一路上我们第一次见到七月始盛开的油菜花，看到了开满紫色、白色的花儿的马铃薯。但因为海拔高又一直在路途中颠簸，我们的爱心大使们都有了头晕的症状，三个多小时后终于抵达渭源县城。爱心大使们休息了半个小时不到，便又起身前往坡儿小学，一位爱心大使再次出现头晕恶心的状况，却在喝完水后立即投入到了工作中。

从上海到渭源，两千多公里，一路上爱心大使们经历了飞机晚点、身体不适等种种艰辛，却一直期待着和坡儿小学的孩子们相聚的时刻，希望能带给他们最真的关怀，最温暖的爱。因为有他们，所以她们千里不惧，一路坚持。

最真的情怀最深的感动

下午三点五十，我们到达坡儿小学，看到的是孩子们早已穿戴整齐，列队等待。当我们到达的时候，孩子们整齐的鼓起掌，这突然的掌声让我们很感动，却也让我们无所适从。他们就那样站在阳光下，等待着我们到来，我们不知道能提供多大的帮助，但却能感受到他们有多需要帮助。

我们看到学校的围墙已经倒塌，只能用石头垒砌起来，这样的围墙老师们是禁止学生靠近的，因为石块有随时滑下来的危险。在其中两个教室里，笔者看到用砖砌起来的讲台，茅草盖起来的屋顶，损坏后修了多次的“补丁桌椅”。在其中一个教室的后面，堆积了十来只冬天用来取暖的炉子和长短不一的暖气管子，这里的冬天最低温度有零下十几度，就靠这几只炉子实在难以抵御这里冬日的寒冷，虽然此时的渭源已是春暖花开，但孩子们手上的冻疮印却依稀可见。

此次，我们的爱心大使为孩子们带去了系有红丝带的学习用品，上面写有所有关爱这些孩子们的安正人对他们的祝福。孩子们拿着一份份充满爱心的学习用品，一个个脸上都满是笑容，映衬在蓝色的天空下。此情此景，让我们一路的艰辛在瞬间化为欣慰。

当天，孩子们和爱心大使还进行了共绘“我的梦想”的互动，初进教室，发现孩子们一个个端坐在位子上，很安静，也很拘谨。为了让孩子们尽快融入到我们的互动中来，三个爱心大使兵分三路，各带领几个小组，孩子们三五个一组，将课桌椅排在了一起。几个孩子围着一张画坐着也不出声，随着爱心大使们一步步的引导和讲解，孩子们终于发现这些画虽好，但却都只是勾出了框架，却没有上色。爱心大使告诉孩子们：“这些颜色是需要大家去填充的，大家希望它是什么颜色就可以拿起自己手中的画笔上色，因为这是你们的未来，你们的梦想。你们是可以用自己的行动去实现的。”刚开始很是拘谨的孩子们终于活跃了起来，一个个抢着拿起画笔你一笔我一笔的画起来，叽叽喳喳，有口头指导的，也有着手实施的，还不时的回头跟别的小组比着速度。不多一会，爱心大使倪蓉婷带领的小组就率先完成了，一副色彩缤纷的梦想之绘就出现在了大家面前。孩子们拿起了自己最爱的颜色的彩笔郑重的写下了自己的名字，还一个个拿起自己的作品，美美的拍着照片。

生活中的他们或许并不能像城市的孩子一般生活富足，但是他们的那份天真和快乐却并没有因为生活的贫困而减少分毫，他们在认真的描绘着自己的未来，以最积极向上的心去迎接未来。他们镜头中留下的一个个笑脸也成了此行最美的纪念。

一双小肩膀一家人的希望

捐赠仪式结束后，爱心大使们在老师的带领下对家庭特别贫困的学生进行了爱心家访。我们跟着五年级学生汪亚红去往她家，差不多半个小时的路程，一路都是上坡，把我们在这群平时很少锻炼的人累得气喘吁吁，只能是连走带爬。被雨水冲过的泥土路，一个个石头冒出了坑洼不平的路面，这样的路，无论晴天还是雨天，都只能步行。经过一条小河，因为没有桥，我们只能走在三根木头搭成的简易木桥上，而河水却是从木桥上过的，让我们担心下雨天的孩子们应该怎么过去。

一路上，爬山越河，平时汪亚红只需要半个小时的路我们却走了四十多分钟。当汪亚红的家出现在我们面前的时候，我们彻底被震惊了。用家徒四壁来形容这个家也毫不为过，四周就着土坝上的泥土圈成院子的形状，一间黑熏熏的土房子，腿有残疾的妈妈坐在地上拾到着给牲口吃的野草，头发花白的爸爸在旁边晒着谷子，年仅六七岁的妹妹独自一人在家中写作业。旁边的一间更矮的房子里拴着家里唯一的财产——一头驴，整个院子里蚊虫满天飞。这就是汪亚红的家，这个九岁的女孩一个人承受了太多，她是家里唯一的希望，照料一家人生活起居的责任也自然而然的落到了她的肩上。

虽然每天上学，虽然年仅9岁，但一家人的一日三餐她却不得不记挂于心。因为妈妈腿脚不方便，妹妹又小，每天她做好早饭才能去上学，中午放学回来做午饭，晚上回来做晚饭，就这样的日复一日。看着年迈的父母，幼小的妹妹，她了解她肩上的责任，她也了解她才是一家人的希望，所以她一直很努力，她的成绩也因此名列前茅，

这样的孩子，这样的家庭，我们了解她的不易，但也为她的坚强感动。这样坚韧的孩子，我们相信她一定会走出一条她的未来之路，这条路虽然艰辛却必定光芒绽放。

后记：

7月6日晚20:20的飞机，却一直等到深夜23点才登机，真所谓“一路行程似流水，除了晚点还是晚点”啊。凌晨两点，我们才拖着疲惫了三天的身体、感动而净化后的心灵回到上海。为期三天的爱心之行，虽然有诸多的不易，但是我们却收获了幸福和坚韧。期待在今后的生活中我们有机会帮助更多需要帮助的人，更期待更多的人参与到献爱心的活动中来，也期待安正慈善基金会“筑梦计划”下一站早日起航！

Love travels thousands of miles across moving clouds and flowing waters

-Anzheng Charity Foundations’s Dream Project enters Weiyuan Po’er Elementary School in Gansu Province

Text/Wang Guiping from Brand Management Center

The charity donation, organized by the Cultural Department of the enterprise, was held in the lobby on the first floor of Anzheng Fashion Group’s headquarters in Shanghai on June 6th 2013. All Anzheng staff contributed their care and love for the children in Po’er Primary School in Weiyuan County, Gansu Province. On July 4th 2013, three charity ambassadors from Anzheng Fashion Group travelled thousands of miles to Gansu Province to deliver Anzheng’s love and compassion to the children in Po’er Primary School.

Travelled thousands of miles just for you

At two O’clock on July 4th, three charity ambassadors from Anzheng Fashion Group (Gao Min from Executive Office, Yan Fangfang from JZ Brand Project Department, and Ni Rongting from IMM Brand Project Department) and two other employees brought the love and affection from all Anzheng staff and set foot on the journey to Gansu. Although the plane was late, we managed to arrive in Lanzhou at 9pm. After getting off the plane, to their great surprise, it was still bright like day! We were totally amazed. Later we went on board a bus and arrived at downtown of Lanzhou City an hour and half later. Totally exhausted, we found a place and settled down, waiting to hurry to our destination-Weiyuan County-early next morning.

Early next morning, we went to Lanzhou bus station and hurried to Weiyuan. It took three hours’ drive from Lanzhou to Weiyuan. All the way, deserving the name of the Great Northwest, we saw the yellow earth dotted with specks of greenness, unable to conceal the vast land of yellow earth.

On the way, any vehicle passing by would kick up the yellow dust “high into the air” and the dust and dirt would soon fill the entire air. Although tall trees are not to be found on loess plateau, the watermelons growing in the yellow sand looked rather attractive. Seeing the watermelon lying quietly in the field for the first time in our lives, we screamed in great amazement until our eyes became sore and the charity ambassadors dozed off. The bus drove all the way to the east. When we woke up, what we saw was not sky filled with yellow dust any more but green trees and grass on the mountains and plains, which made us wonder if we have arrived in grassland full of endless greenness in summer. Occasionally, white walls with red roof tiles in the green fields flashed by on after another outside the window, presenting a most harmonious picture.

For the first time we saw the rape flowers blooming in July, as well as the potatoes full of purple and white flowers. Due to the high altitude and the bumpy ride, our charity ambassadors started to show symptoms of dizziness. After three hours, we eventually arrived in the downtown area of Weiyuan County. Resting for less than half an hour, our charity ambassadors again hurried towards Po’er Primary School. Although attacked by dizziness and nausea again, one of our charity ambassadors just swallowed some water and threw himself/herself into work immediately.

From Shanghai to Weiyuan, travelling over 2000 kilometers, our charity ambassadors, having overcome the difficulties of late flight and physical discomfort, have been looking forward to the moment to meet with the children in Po’er Primary school, hoping to give them the most genuine care and warmest love. For them, they went thousands of miles with bravery and perseverance.

The most genuine love and the deepest gratitude

We arrived at Po’er Primary School at 3:50 in the afternoon. By the time we arrived, children have already been dressed neatly and queuing to wait for our arrival. Upon arrival, they clapped their hands uniformly, which greatly moved us and made us at loss at the same time. Standing under the sun, they waited for our arrival. We did not know how much we could help them, but we could tell that how much they were in need of help.

We saw the walls of the school have collapsed, and they had to pile up with stones. Teachers have forbidden children from coming close to such walls as rocks might slide down any time. In two of the classrooms the author saw podium stacked with rocks, roof made from thatches, and “patched tables and desks” that have been damaged and repaired again and again. At the back of one of the classrooms there were tens of stoves and heating pipes with varied sizes for keeping warm in winter. In winter, here the lowest temperature could drop around ten degrees below zero. Only a few stoves would not be sufficient enough to chase away the severe cold weather. Although by now it was already spring, the frost bites on children’s hands could still be seen.

Our charity ambassadors brought school supplies tied with red ribbons and filled with best wishes from all Anzheng employees. Holding their school supplies, children’s faces were beaming under the blue sky. Under such remarkable picture, all the hardships from the long travel instantly got paid off.

On the same day, children interacted with the charity ambassadors, painting “my dream” together. When we first entered the classroom, we found all the children sitting in their seats, quietly and cautiously. In order to encourage them to blend into the interactive activity, three ambassadors divided children into groups of three or five and lined up all the desks and chairs together. Some children sat around a picture without uttering any word. With the guidance and explanation of the ambassadors, they started to notice that although the picture looked good, it was but outlines and sketches and hasn’t been colored yet. Ambassadors told them that: “You will have to color in the picture. Take up the color pens you have and color the picture into how you like it to be because it represents your future and your dream. You will have to fulfill your dreams with actions.” Although cautious in the beginning, children became active eventually and grabbed the color pens and started coloring in. Some were chirpy and giving oral instructions, others were drawing. Occasionally they would look back other the progress made by other groups. Soon, the group led by ambassador Ni Rongting finished first, unveiling a wonderful picture in front of all of us. Children grabbed the pen with their favorite colors and signed their names on the picture and started taking a photo of the picture one after another.

They may not have the opportunity to enjoy an abundant and wealthy life as urban children do, however their innocence and joy has not been reduced in any way because of the poverty. They were carefully painting their future and welcoming their future with the most enterprising hearts. The smiling faces left in the picture became the most beautiful souvenir for this trip.

A pair of shoulders holds up a family’s hope

After the donation, led by the teachers, the charity ambassadors visited the homes of the poorest families. Following Wang Yahong, a 5th-grade student, we went to her home. We almost travelled all the way up the hill for about half an hour, which kept us panting due to lack of exercise and we had to half-crawl sometimes. The dirt road, after being washed by the rain water, was extremely bumpy. You had to walk on such road no matter in sunny days or rainy days. We came to a small river. Because it didn’t have any bridge, we had to walk on a wooden bridge simply made from three logs and the water flowed above the wooden bridge. We kept wondering how children could pass the bridge in rainy days.

All the way we climbed up mountains and crossed rivers. Usually it took Wang Yahong about half an hour, however today it took us over forty minutes. When we eventually see her home, we were totally shocked. This home had nothing but four walls with mud piled around the house and formed a yard. In a charcoaled mud house sat her mum with leg disability sitting on the floor to tidy up the wild grass to be fed to the cattle; her white-haired dad was sunbathing the millet; and her six-or-seven-year-old sister was doing homework by herself. In an even shorter barn was the only property of the family-a donkey. The entire yard was filled with mosquitoes and flies. This is Wang Yahong’s home. This nine-year-old girl has suffered too much. She was the only hope of the family, assuming the responsibility of looking after the lives of the whole family at such young age.

Although still going to school and only nine years of age, she had to worry about the three meals of the whole family. As mom had problems with legs and sister was still too young, every day she had to cook breakfast before heading to school and come back to cook lunch during lunch break, and again cook dinner after finishing school. Day after day, she knew her responsibility well in face of old parents and young sister. She was also aware that she was the hope of the entire family. That was why she has been working so hard and excelled in her study.

Facing this child and her family, we understood her difficulties and were deeply moved by her strong will. In face of this child with such persevering mind, we had all the reasons to believe that she could undoubtedly create a bright future, which might be full of hardships but would sure end up with brilliance.

Our flight was supposed to be at 20:20 on July 6th but we were not boarded until 23:00-“the whole journey had to be covered by flight delays”. At 2am, we returned Shanghai with exhausted bodies but affected and purified souls after three days’ hard work. The three-day charity travel was not easy but we harvested happiness and perseverance. We hope to help more people in need in the future and look forward to more and more people joining such charitable activities, and look forward to the next “Dream Project” trip of Anzheng Charity Foundation!