When packing the last batch of donated materials last month, I touched the "Love and Education Aid Action" label on the carton and suddenly remembered the rainy day three years ago. When delivering goods and passing by a mountain primary school, the factory director saw the children walking on the mud to go to school, and immediately decided to turn the car around - this impromptu decision has now grown into a public welfare tradition that our factory has adhered to for 28 months.
1. Warm relay from workshop to classroom
Every Friday afternoon, Xiao Zhang from the Quality Inspection Department would take a few young workers to the warehouse. They were not counting spare parts, but sorting out the stationery donated by their colleagues. I remember that when we first launched the charity education campaign, we made a joke: Lao Li stuffed his child's electric pencil case into the donation box, and after being discovered by the careful girls, he secretly changed it to a regular model. Now we all remember that what mountain schools lack more is basic stationery and extracurricular books.
2. Special production tasks
Before Children's Day last year, the factory director announced at the morning meeting that he would rush to produce a "special order". Our assembly line temporarily switched production and made 200 sets of anti-fall pencil cases with scraps. Looking at these boxes printed with cartoon packaging machine patterns, Lao Wang from the technical department joked: "This is the most humane product of our factory." This batch of gifts with the smell of machine ink are now lying on the desks of a village primary school in Yunnan.
3. The team of students who walked out of the factory
Last month, I followed the car to deliver student aid materials, and I truly understood the weight of the "education assistance plan". When we handed the brand new schoolbag to the little girl with pigtails, she suddenly bowed to the truck coming from the factory. Liu, the assembler who was traveling with me, was a straight man. He turned around and secretly wiped his eyes three times. Now more and more colleagues in the factory have signed up to participate in the on-site student aid campaign, and even the security guard Lao Yang has applied to be a "material escort".
4. The sound of reading amid the roar of the machine
You may not think that a new link has been added to the morning meeting in our packaging workshop recently. Before each love student aid campaign, the duty team leader will read a few letters from children in the mountainous area. Listening to the recording of children's voices reading in the sound of the machine, the hands that tighten the screws unconsciously lighten a little. During a night shift, the new operator Xiao Wu suddenly said: "After this batch of parts is processed, I want to write a letter back to the paired children" - this made everyone on the entire production line laugh, but the next day there were indeed more than a dozen handwritten letters in the mailbox.
5. The continuous growth of charity rings
Last week, I passed by the bulletin board and saw the newly posted "Corporate Social Responsibility" progress chart. The red line representing the student aid campaign has jumped up again: from the initial three assistance points to the current eight areas, and the number of participating employees has increased from more than a dozen to more than 70% of the entire factory. What is even more gratifying is that after seeing our charity action, a partner took the initiative to propose to jointly carry out technical poverty alleviation.
Now you can often see such scenes in the factory: forklift drivers help to move books, the finance department sister is packing donated materials, and even the canteen auntie has learned to draw encouraging cartoons on lunch boxes. These small pieces of warmth, like parts on an assembly line, are finally assembled into a gift that changes destiny. The next time you pass by our factory, if you see a truck full of stationery parked at the door, it must be another batch of "Love to Aid Education Action" is about to set off.
