When geese fly in a V-formation, they can increase their flying distance up to 71 percent. Because when every goose flutters, it encourages other companions that follow behind. The motivation of geese’s long-distance flight also represents the cohesive spirit in a team.
Thousands of concentric is thousand people came to power; million people heart, not one of." The basis of team spirits is to respect individual interests and achievements. The core is to cooperate with each other, and the highest level is a centripetal and cohesion. Forming team spirits do not require self-sacrifice. On the contrary, showing personalities and strengths is a way to guarantee that team members can accomplish work tasks together. The explicit cooperative willingness and mode generate a real impetus in hearts. Our volunteer team is exactly a team where everyone can extend individuality and gather together sincerely.
Tianjin’s Volunteer Team of Free Lunch is established by volunteers from Tianjin and other cities around it, and its mission is to enhance the development of Free Lunch in Tianjin. Our volunteers include military demobilized cadres, entrepreneurs, office workers, doctors, foreign white-collars, government functionaries, university students, etc..
If you want to join us, please search the QQ Group of Tianjin’s Volunteer team: 372825058.
Team Members' Presence
Lifang Du joined Guizhou’s Volunteer Team of Free lunch in September of 2013 and was in charge of docking with Yangmeng Primary School in southeastern Guizhou. After a half year, she gathered up and established Tianjin’s Volunteer Team. In April of 2014, she participated in the third-anniversary confession and was named one of the great national volunteer of Free Lunch! Her two-year voluntary work not only helps to cleanse her mind; she also makes lots of friends who have the same interests. Her catch phrase is: If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together. Cheers!
Ping Qi is a teacher of the Tianjin University of Technology. As one of the founders and speakers in Tianjin’s Volunteer Team of Free Lunch, she got to know Fei Deng and the program of Free Lunch, and then she was deeply impressed and attracted by this charity program. Alongside the charity, as a university teacher, she thinks that she should take responsibility for leading university students to know and join this kind of charity. With hard work and supports from both volunteers and college leaders, Free Lunch’s charity program held lectures and recruited volunteers at the Tianjin University of Technology in April of 2014. This was the first university that Free Lunch entered in.
Wei Liu, living in Tianjin now, is in charge of docking with Zhongshan Primary School in Guizhou and is the leader of Guizhou volunteer management group. He is also a productive member of Tianjin’s Volunteer Team. He thinks that, since doing what we like, we should deliver love to more and more people and let them join. If we gather together, strengths will be condensed; if breaking up, it will be an obstacle for Free Lunch’s development. We should convey this love to more places to let more people know and join us!
My name is Yingchun Yang and I joined Free lunch in June of 2014. My spouse joined in February of 2014. We were only regular benefactors at first, and later we took charge of docking with Dengxi Primary School in Guizhou. We two invited friends such as Zhiqiu Huang, Qing Yin, Yunying Pan, and Rong Ren to join this volunteer team. We also invited private entrepreneurs such as Renzhong Zhang and Hui Liu to become long-term benefactors of Free Lunch. Zhiqiu Huang, deputy secretary of party committee in the School of Materials of the Tianjin Polytechnic University, values Free Lunch’s work and organized students of the School of Materials to establish the team of Free Lunch in the Tianjin Polytechnic University.
I always remind myself: Free Lunch is a sacred job, which is related to food problems among children in remote mountainous regions and is a big issue. It was Free Lunch that opened my mind. I changed from concerning about my life and my home to more people’s lives and my country. Free Lunch offers me many opportunities of learning and growing, and it sublimed my spirit world. We two has determined to affect more people for Free Lunch. In the following days, we would work hard with each other, serve better for children in remote mountainous regions, and make a few contributions to our country.
Renzhong Zhang, a volunteer, joined Tianjin’s Volunteer Team in November of 2014 and participated in team activities for several times. Activities joined: in February 2015, he contributed wines valuing CNY30,000 to Free Lunch headquarter; in 2015, he joined a contributory activity—make love doubled, small actions with a great love of 9.9 Tenxun Charity; in the spring festival of 2016, he joined a contributory activity of Qingluoying!
Hui Liu, living in Hebei District of the city of Tianjin now, joined Free Lunch in March of 2015. Over the year, he participated in many activities organized by Free Lunch since joining: in 2015, he joined a crackdown on abductions held by Free Lunch and a Weibo crackdown organization; he joined a contributory activity—make love doubled, small actions with great love of 9.9 Tenxun Charity; in 2016, he joined a contributory activity of Qingluoying. Manager Liu’s motto is: make kindness and Tianjin’s team coexist!
Wenling Wang, a team member of Tianjin’s volunteer team, joined Free Lunch in November of 2013 and formed the Tianjin’s volunteer team with Lifang Du, Maojun Wang, Wei Liu, Ping Qin, etc.. Activities joined: he joined Free Lunch’s propaganda and recruitment work of approaching the Tianjin University of Technology; he joined Free Lunch’s propaganda and recruitment work of approaching the Tianjin Polytechnic University; he joined Free Lunch’s training and propaganda work; in 2015, he joined a contributory activity—make love doubled, small actions with great love of 9.9 Tenxun Charity; in the spring festival of 2016, he joined a contributory activity of Qingluoying; he joined a day activity of sharing free lunch organized by Junying Wang in Lei Feng’s Day on March 5, 2016.
Xiaoyan Chen is a native-born person in Tianjin. Her family was in a straitened circumstance so that she was aware of living conditions of lower-class people. She is in charge of docking with Jianshanzi Primary School in Qinhuang Island. At the same time, she helps Dahui of integrated sub-section to take charge of 23 food provided schools’ weekly Weibo inspections in Hebei Province. She always says: it is fine to name it charity or kindness, but it is not a behavior showing off in front of others. Persistence is a contribution towards people in need, which would bring benefits to them and change them. This is what a charity brings to us and make us have self-discipline and younger mental states.
Thanks for Fei Deng! Thanks for Free Lunch! Thanks for all volunteers! Thanks for children in remote mountainous regions! It is you that wake up our social responsibilities and provide a real opportunity for us to realize our value of life.
Instead of suffering from starving, Children can have hot food offered by Free Lunch and feel the beauty of the world. As volunteers, we also appreciate that children and this charity enhance individual value, happiness, interpersonal trust, competence, and like-minded friends. The long-lasting charity is a win-win activity, which lights up the life of people in need and warms the world. It also makes benefactors’ life more colorful and become a better one.
These are diligent social volunteers above. In the following, Canniuniu will introduce one of the representative teams among volunteers— the volunteer team of Tianjin Polytechnic University. In the team of Free Lunch, many enterprises, schools, unit members organize spontaneously and form to be an effective branch, which has become an ignited spark and the brightest fulcrum. They are in the same schools. Due to being familiar with each other, they cooperate efficiently and provide a lot of experience and help to the team establishment of Free Lunch.
We have to move forward, but we can sow the seeds of hope and let them grow to be a towering tree to shield people in need from the wind and the sun.
Zhiqiu Huang, deputy secretary of party committee in the School of Materials of the Tianjin Polytechnic University, values Free Lunch’s work. In September, 2014, he organized students of the School of Materials to form the team of Free Lunch in the Tianjin Polytechnic University. At the beginning, he took charge of docking with all school with Free Lunch in the Hebei Province. And now he has started to send volunteers to schools with Free Lunch in regions such as Guizhou, Hunan, and Henan.
Team Members' Presence
Hong Chen, an office director in the School of Materials in the Tianjin Polytechnic University, joined Free Lunch and became a volunteer in July of 2014. The reason why she joined is that Free Lunch makes every fund raised in an open and transparent which is under supervisions of the society. A lot of children can stay away from starving. Being a university teacher, she has a responsibility for leading and cultivate students’ social responsibilities, spirits of dedication, and willingness of helping others. The biggest change on her is that she achieves her value of life, improves her competence, and purifies her mind. She also makes many like-minded friends in this program.
Zhuang Guo is a student of session 2014 in the School of Materials in the Tianjin Polytechnic University. She started to know Free Lunch and became a volunteer in September 2014. It is about one year and a half since she docked with Sanlipeng Primary School in Zhuolu county of Zhangjiakou in Hebei Province. At the beginning of 2015, she undertook the group leader of docking with volunteers in Hebei Province; in September, she took over the Tianjin’s university student volunteer team. She devoted to making the volunteer team of university students swells on campus. As a speaker, she joined an activity of “Share love, hundreds of schools in ten cities with Free Lunch” and shared this program with others. Till now, there are over 30 volunteers of Free Lunch on campus, and they dock with regions like including Hebei, Guizhou, and Hunan respectively. Her motto is: not for the best, but for the better. Her new year goal is to establish a Free Lunch’s university student center in Tianjin successfully.
Ying Zhao is a student of session 2013 in the School of Management in the Tianjin Polytechnic University and joined Free Lunch in September of 2014. She joined a voluntary activity held by the school in the summer vacation of her freshman year, and she deeply realized that some children need more help from others. When she was back to the school and joined charity sales, she got to know Free Lunch. After joining this team, she keeps working hard to do as much as possible and hopes that more children would have a happy childhood. Free Lunch provides both tasty lunch and good faith to more people.
Tianyu Li is a student of session 2014 in the School of Materials in the Tianjin Polytechnic University and joined Free Lunch in September of 2014. He started to take the position of the group leader and take responsibility for the work of docking with volunteers of Hebei Province. He always seems to be helpful and has a desire towards being a volunteer. So when he knew about Free Lunch, he joined in it immediately. He feels that he carries responsibility on his shoulder to help people in need around the world, and he is doing something to help them right now.
Yunsheng Chen is a student of session 2014 in the School of Materials in the Tianjin Polytechnic University, and he is the leader of university student volunteers in the Guizhou region. He joined Free Lunch in December of 2014. He joined the volunteer team because he wanted to help more people. He felt that the biggest change in him is that he becomes open-minded and gets to know many kind people. He also experiences the happiness of helping others.
Ronghua Wang is a student of session 2014 in the School of Materials in the Tianjin Polytechnic University and joined Free Lunch in September of 2014. After entering the university, he thinks that we should not only study hard, but we should also concern about the society and take our own social responsibilities positively. As a university student, we have our responsibilities to do whatever we can to help the hungry. I believe everyone has love and a desire to make contributions that can improve the society. However, most of the time, we just lack an opportunity—an opportunity that is worth for our faith. He did not know there is such an open and transparent charity organization until he knew Free Lunch. He realizes that it takes only about ten minutes to help offer daily hot free lunch to children in remote mountainous regions. Providing people with love can be so simple.
Notes
Mr. Fei Deng’s book, Softness Changes China, strongly supports many people’s ideas of devoting themselves for Free Lunch.
Love is a soundless promise, and only a spark can make it full of warmth; love is an unpaid exchange, and only a little devotion can make people treat with each other sincerely.” As a university student and a volunteer, we are willing to transform our love into actions.
The team of “Free Lunch” is like geese in the sky. We will experience storms and rains. But as long as we can stay in formation, find the right position, and have courage and faith, we would have a bright future in front of us.
