Join in the festivities

 During festivals, we give daily necessitties to children and the elderly, have meals together, and share joy and hapynies.

Child Protection

Child Protection

Ricci Social Services (RSS) began to care for the weakest with a loving heart. 

This is just a door to get closer to the weak. We need to continuously strengthen and deepen our own capabilities. 

On the road to sustainable development, in addition to responding to the needs of our partners and ourselves, we must also continuously strengthen the awareness and attention of RSS internal employees on protecting the weak, and provide the greatest help to the adults and children we serve. 

Since 2019, we have started to hold a number of internal trainings on protecting children from harm in preparation for establishing RSS's internal child protection policy. 

Although affected by the epidemic, in 2021 we also conducted training on protecting the weak for volunteer groups serving in rehabilitation homes.

We hope that through the establishment and implementation of policies, RSS’s work in caring for and protecting the disadvantaged will receive a positive response. 

An old man brought a nail clipper

After winter, the warm sunshine shines all over the rehabilitation center☀️, and the patients all gather together to chat🍵. An old man who was infected with leprosy and had a missing foot uses nail clippers to trim the nails of an old man with infected hands💗

Thousands of years ago, the wise man said: "You should love each other"🤗

Today, the editor sees the truth, goodness and beauty of loving each other💖💕

Nostalgia for Home

Grandpa Jiang arrived at the leprosy sanatorium in 1954 and is the only survivor of the first group that came here. At the sanatorium, they often talked about their childhood, about the mountains and waters of their homeland, about the people and things, vaguely feeling their nostalgia for home. After discussing it as a group, the sisters decided to help them fulfill this wish. After multiple coordinations, Grandpa Jiang finally saw his longing realized: returning home to briefly reunite with his loved ones and see the landscapes of his childhood once again.

It has been 70 years since he left his home!

70 years that finally froze on March 24, 2024. Today, with a clear sky and a gentle breeze, the sun shines, and the sky also rejoices at the return of Grandpa Jiang. At eight in the morning, his nephew and grandson came to pick him up by car to take him back, and they will return to the sanatorium three days later at noon. Although it was only three days, the elderly man felt completely satisfied and full of happiness.

Today is the second day of his return, and the elderly man is still radiant and full of energy, talking with other elders about what he has seen and heard at home: the old houses have been demolished, there are only apartment buildings, the road is right at the main entrance, there is a school, and you can also hear someone running and playing a trumpet; I thought it was an army, but I was told it’s recruits in training (recruit training camp).

As a volunteer, seeing the satisfied smile of the elderly man, I also feel deeply satisfied.

The value of service lies in this.

Left Image: Elderly Jiang suffered disabilities in his face, hands, and feet due to leprosy infection.

Right Image: The relatives of Elderly Jiang take him back home to alleviate his nostalgia.

The volunteers prepared things to eat

Volunteers made vegetable and meat buns to share with everyone.

The Leprosy survivors held them in their hands and warmed 

their hearts.

New clothes for leprosy survivors

 

On January 1, 2025

New Year Day

Leprosy survivors were all delighted 

after putting on the new clothes sent  by their benefactor 

Scenes of Christmas celebrations

Scenes of Christmas Celebrations in various leprosy rehabilitation centers