Public Interest Culture Expo calls for common concern about the living conditions of migrants

Yesterday was the United Nations recognized "international Migrants Day", a public welfare cultural exposition in the Center of the Sun Moon in the Open Air Plaza. Some visitors are not familiar with the "International Migrants Day", but they are attracted by the dazzling commodity and various publicity activities in the exposition, and pay attention to the living state of "migrants" in the city.

"On December 18, 2000, taking into account the large number of migrants in the world, the United Nations decided to declare December 18 the International Day of migrants, and as early as 1990, the General Assembly had adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their families." An exhibitor briefed reporters on the origins of international Migrants Day. In China, the "migrants" in the cities, in addition to white-collar workers at home and abroad, are a significant proportion of migrant workers and their family members. These "migrants" are often disadvantaged groups, and life and work require the help of all sectors of society.

"Maybe a computer will be out of the way to help," said a staff member of the Public Welfare Organization's "New Citizen's Life Pavilion". Located in the three forest area of Pudong, the new Citizen Living Museum is a public service entity museum, receiving the public donated spare electronic equipment. After sorting, processing and repairing these electronic devices, volunteers use them to train the mobile population on computer use. Some foreign personnel who have learned the basic operation of computers, feeling the benefits of this approach: "Through computer training, I found a supermarket cashier's job", "learn to surf the internet, I can and in the university's daughter online chat," "This spring festival home, I can book the train tickets online!" ”

Some "grassroots" entrepreneurs also bring their own goods, in yesterday's "public service Flea" on the hawk. All the way from India back to the tie-dyed scarf, a stroke of drawn hand-painted change bag, exquisite fashion jewelry 、...... A wide variety of goods attracted a lot of visitors, and the price is not expensive, but at more than 10 yuan, dozens of yuan up and down. Many of these "grassroots" entrepreneurs are "new Shanghainese". They say that some of the proceeds from the process flea will be donated to help more migrants, but on the other hand, it is hoped that "the city will give more space to ' grassroots ' entrepreneurs and migrants." "Some public interest organizations have already paid attention to the needs of migrants and have designed" public service consumption "services. The slogan of the "Yan Geng Workshop" is that "poverty alleviation does not lie in giving money, but in creating equal opportunities for people in poverty and respect for their hearts". They have opened up sales of their handmade handicrafts to vulnerable groups such as migrants, people with disabilities, and have also opened workshops in some communities in Shanghai to provide more migrants with home employment opportunities.

There are a number of white-haired old people or students just out of school on the fair's behalf. They don't look strong in the cold wind, but with the topic of "migrants", their enthusiasm infects many visitors. These staff have repeatedly stressed that it is not difficult to help "migrants", "many ways, low thresholds" : Spend 4.8 yuan to buy a baby bib, open the door of child health care for mobile women; 29 yuan can be a female psychological counseling for a woman, encourage them to live more self-confidence, or directly as a volunteer, take time to chat with migrant workers to ease the pressure of life.
Source: Publisher: Ren Chong time: 2011-12-19 19:02:11 Source: Liberation Cattle Net "collection" [0]