To mark the 39th International Volunteer Day (on December 5, 2024), Chinese women volunteers helped provide care and services (as part of the 2024 women-volunteer-service campaign) to the elderly and children across the country, according to the All-China Women's Federation.

Women's federations, at all levels, have based their efforts in communities and families to serve the elderly and children. The federations organized, combined, 24 million women volunteers to help the groups take photos, and provide free medical services, nursing care, psychological care, and companionship, among other heartwarming services.

Among the campaign, the My Motherland and I eldercare tour focused on extending the project to counties (each designated as a key county for receiving national assistance for rural revitalization). The project mobilized women volunteers to visit communities, rural areas and nursing homes to take photos for around 5,000 women, each born in 1949, the same age as the People's Republic of China (PRC). The volunteers used cameras to record the stories of the women, who grew up with the PRC. The volunteers also provided support and care to the women.

The campaign aligned with the on-going, caring mothers paired-up assistance campaign, in a combined effort to organize women volunteers to help left-behind children in rural areas, and orphans and in-need children, by providing various services, including daily care, academic counseling, care and companionship, tutoring, and basic living security.

(Source: Xinhua/Translated by Women of China)

Editor: Cui Rui