“Warm Porridge of Love” Season 7: A piece given, a thousand loves received

As scheduled, every mid-October, the Volunteer Student Team of Dai Nam University launches the traditional charity program “Warm Porridge of Love”. This year, “Warm Porridge of Love” has entered its 7th season. This is a volunteer activity that students in the school are particularly interested in responding to with the message “A piece given, a thousand loves received” which has left good impressions in the community.

Warm Porridge of Love season 7 starts from mid-October 2020 and lasts until the end of January 2021.

“Warm Porridge of Love” is one of the meaningful volunteer activities in the program “Warm Winter of Love” of the Volunteer Student Team of Dai Nam University. After 6 seasons of implementation, Dai Nam Warm Porridge has reached thousands of poor and homeless workers in Hanoi, contributing to warming and dispelling the cold of winter; helping generations of Dai Nam University students to sympathize, love, and share with those in less fortunate circumstances, thereby having the motivation to study and a correct and positive attitude towards life.

Warm love porridge season 7 will produce 24 episodes with a total cost of 10,000,000 VND.

This year, Warm Porridge of Love season 7 was launched in mid-October 2020 and will last until the end of January 2021. Up to now, Warm Porridge season 7 has completed 2 issues with 80 portions of nutritious porridge donated and cooked by volunteer students. It is expected that the Student Volunteer Team will deploy 24 porridge issues with a total cost of 10,000,000 VND.

When night falls, everyone is falling asleep in their warm rooms, then volunteer students from Dai Nam University start spreading out to the streets to "give" hot and loving porridge.

Not only giving porridge, the team members also sat down to chat and share with the elderly, children, poor workers and homeless people to help them be more optimistic and feel warmer on cold nights.

Sharing with us, Mr. Vu Dang Tuan Anh - Deputy Secretary of the Youth Union of Dai Nam University said: "What the young people give is not only a late night meal but also love, sympathy, and sharing with all their hearts. Every day that passes, the young people learn many useful things in life to improve themselves. That is the lesson of love, sympathy, and sharing difficulties with the poor."

By participating in this meaningful volunteer activity, Dai Nam University students learn to sympathize, love, and share with those in less fortunate circumstances, thereby gaining motivation to study and a correct and positive attitude towards life.

Participating in the Warm Porridge of Love activity, members of the Student Volunteer Team experienced many meaningful activities such as: Mobilizing donations, selling flowers and fruits to raise funds, cooking porridge, distributing porridge, sharing love with people in especially difficult circumstances in society. These are extremely valuable experiences that help young people grow up in life.

In particular, to protect the environment this year, the volunteer student team of Dai Nam University has switched from honeycomb coal stoves to green generation stoves using biological materials such as rice husks and sawdust to cook porridge.

Thu Hoe