Also witnessing the growth of teenagers and lighting up the heart lamp for children with leukemia, this graduating Jiputuo student donates leukemia | children | heart lamp for love
Early this morning, in the lobby of the first floor of the Fourth Affiliated Middle School of East China Normal University, hairdressers carefully cut their long hair with scissors in their hands, carefully trimmed their hairstyles, and donated their long hair to leukemia patients at Shanghai Children's Hospital. At the "Love Starting from the Head -2023 Season 8 Charity Action for Children with Leukemia", more than 100 donation volunteers donated on site and obtained their own donation volunteer certificates. What is cut is hair, conveying hope. Every strand of long hair can light up a heart lamp for cancer patients.
There is a group of children in Shanghai Children's Hospital, which is separated from the Fourth Affiliated Middle School of East China Normal University. Unfortunately, they suffer from chronic diseases such as leukemia and tumors. In order to have hope for survival, they have to undergo radiation and chemotherapy. These children gradually turned into "bald heads", their expressions of disappointment and unwilling tears touched the students of the Fourth Affiliated Middle School of East China Normal University. Therefore, the young friends launched the initiative of "Love starts from the 'head' - establishing a donation volunteer bank". The donation activity originated from a show of love and support. As a legacy project during the graduation season of the school, "when your hair reaches your waist, it will be the day of love donation", which has also become a promise for everyone during the graduation season.
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Lanxin and Zhang Leran from the 4th Affiliated Middle School of East China Normal University in 2016 and 2019 are currently studying in university, but they have always remembered the donation activities. This year's graduation season, the two of them returned to their alma mater to participate in the charity donation campaign. Yale University student Lan Xin said, "Returning to my alma mater to donate hair is like going back to the graduation ceremony in 2016. The donation event is a symbol of growth for me, and every time I recall it, I feel incredibly warm and responsible. I hope that younger students can also inherit this activity in their own way, and I believe they will also gain unique growth and insights." Zhang Leran, a student at New York University in Shanghai, admitted that the hair that was carefully taken care of for two years was born out of love. In daily care, love flows through their fingertips. Today, I am donating my long hair again, hoping that it will bring accumulated love to comfort those children in need.
Since last year, the Fourth Affiliated Middle School of East China Normal University has injected new connotations into the "Donating for Love" project, using project-based learning to encourage more children to join, and allowing public welfare radiation to spread from long hair to short hair, from girls to boys, and from on campus to off campus. Students have a deeper understanding of why they donate. The seventh grade student representative happily shared the project-based learning achievements of "constantly breaking through from scratch".
![Also witnessing the growth of teenagers and lighting up the heart lamp for children with leukemia, this graduating Jiputuo student donates leukemia | children | heart lamp for love](https://a5qu.com/upload/images/c4c959ac617315910851e0b0121b0a3d.jpg)
In 2016, the Fourth Affiliated Middle School of East China Normal University became the first school in Shanghai to establish a "Donate for Love" public welfare project. Subsequently, the project gradually expanded from a single school to district level, city level, and even the Yangtze River Delta region. Today, 10 schools have become the "Love starts from the head - Donating Love to Children with Leukemia Charity Alliance Schools". For the convenience of everyone donating hair, the Shanghai Hair and Beauty Industry Association has organized 13 hair and beauty institutions to join this warm team. The 13 units have become "Love starts from the head - donating hair to leukemia children as a public welfare base unit", forming a caring hair donation network. Wang Zhen, Secretary of the Party Branch of the Fourth Affiliated Middle School of East China Normal University, said that the donation activity conveys love and witnesses the growth of young people. The graduation season "Donating for Love" activity has planted a seed of love in the hearts of children, allowing them to warm countless hearts that need to be lit up with their small acts of kindness through the "holding hands" activity.
The graduation season has been 8 years since the Love Donation Project was launched in 2016. The Fourth Affiliated Middle School of East China Normal University collaborates with multiple caring units such as Shanghai Children's Hospital and Shanghai Hair and Beauty Industry Association to organize annual donation activities, with an increasing influence and number of participants year by year. As of now, a total of 207 volunteer activities have been carried out for the Love Donation Hair Project, with 1393 volunteers participating. A total of 159 sick children have put on wigs. They weave hope for the sick children and record the most beautiful moments of growth for them.
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