Chapter 338 Yuanshan Zhongsi Hall
Xiao Shiqiu's grandfather was a soldier and had a special feeling for the orphans of martyrs.
After the family gained financial strength, Mr. Xiao set up a welfare home to take in the orphans of martyrs.
It is said that the reason for this decision was that Mr. Xiao once visited an orphanage and found that the children of martyrs and the children of death row prisoners lived together and enjoyed the same treatment, which made the old man feel uncomfortable.
When he returned home, he mentioned the incident to his family and said, "Although the crime does not extend to the descendants, it still makes people feel uncomfortable to raise the descendants of heroes and criminals together.
Their parents have sacrificed their lives for the country and the people. Shouldn't they bless their descendants?
I have to do what I can for them.”
Later, Mr. Xiao asked his youngest son, Xiao Shiqiu's father, to set aside a portion of the company's profits every year to support the orphans of the martyrs.
Later it was discovered that not all of the money that arrived at the welfare home was used for the children, and the salaries of all the staff in the welfare home were increased.
The old man felt unhappy again, so he set up his own welfare home and became its honorary director.
He named the welfare home Yuanshan Zhongsitang, which was dedicated to taking in the orphans of those who died in the line of duty or performed heroic acts.
Yuanshan is the name of Mr. Xiao. This welfare home provides better material conditions for the children.
Every two or three children are assigned a mother, who lives in a suite like other ordinary families. Each child has his or her own room instead of living in a large dormitory.
They go to kindergarten, elementary school and junior high school like other children, and are picked up and dropped off by their mothers every day. Their classmates didn't even realize they were orphans until graduation.
The old man has created a utopia for orphans with his own strength.
I was a little lost in thought and asked curiously, "Why is only the mother arranged and not the father?"
He smiled somewhat helplessly, “There are many women who love children, especially those who are infertile or have lost children.
But such couples are too rare and hard to find. Finding other men to play pretend couple with them can easily cause family conflicts. If all the children share one or two fathers, it can easily give people the illusion of polygamy.
Well, it's really complicated, I just took it for granted.
"So after much consideration, the old man decided that since the divorce rate is so high now, children from single-parent families will have a better life than those in orphanages.
So for those children, they are just neighbors living in a staff compound, which is full of ordinary residential buildings.
The children do not have a uniform and their mothers take them shopping for clothes according to their own preferences.
Most of the staff who act as mothers for them are divorced, widowed and childless.
At first they just treated it as a job, but later they really treated these children as their own.
After retirement, some mothers help their children take care of their grandchildren, and some children are vying to let their mothers live in their homes.
The only difference between this family compound and other residential areas is that there is a canteen in the compound. Each family can cook their own food or eat in the canteen. Just inform the canteen one day in advance.
Children who grow up this way are no different from those from ordinary middle-class families. They have good personalities, good upbringing, and various skills. They will also go on trips with their mothers on holidays like other children."
"Does the government provide subsidies for these children?"
If this method could be popularized, life for orphans would be much easier.
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