The New Zealand Environmental Protection Association launched the "Make the city look cleaner and the air cleaner" to welcome the New Year with great love.

In order to let the citizens have a cleaner city appearance and welcome the New Year, at 10 am on December 30, 2019, members of the New Zealand Environmental Protection Association gathered on time at the library door of Henderson in the West End. Today they are going to pick up garbage, so that citizens have a clean environment during the festival. They decided to use this special way to welcome the New Year.

They split their groups into three sections and carried out garbage collection operations in different areas. Whether it's deep in the jungle or on the side of a flower trough, or on a drainage trail, wherever they go, they quickly become clean and tidy. In addition to the members of the Environmental Protection Association today, there are also several "new members" who are 6 years old Zoey, 5 years old Jayden, and 4 years old Erik. Today they are going to experience for themselves how their parents-in-law and mother-in-law dedicated their love for the cleanliness of the environment.

The children saw that it was very difficult for the parents-in-law and elders to clean up the rubbish in each place, and the children couldn't help saying, "We later found that someone littered, and told them that they cannot littered. It should be placed into the trash. At the same time, the children actively and seriously used their hands and tools to pick up the discarded garbage one by one and put them in the special garbage bag. This scene is very moving.

What a moral and social lesson ... This is not only a lesson of environmental protection, but also a profound education course of dedication and love. I believe that this lesson is more significant, more profound and more impressive than the theoretical education courses taught by children in the classroom. I believe that children can convey their awareness of environmental protection and dedication through this personal experience of picking up garbage.

Here, I want to pay tribute to this group of elders in their 60s to 80s who have been serving as "environmental protection angels" for seven years! Because of your inconspicuous actions, you have attracted New Zealanders and local mainstream media. It is precisely because of your "environmental protection actions" over the past seven years that it has attracted the attention and support of the New Zealand government, and because your unselfish dedication has attracted the New Zealand Prime Minister to personally meet you. The Chinese are proud of you!

Here, I also call on New Zealand overseas Chinese leaders and Chinese media friends. I hope that in your busy schedule, you will turn your attention to this group of elders who silently give great love to the environment. I believe that this group of elders deserves public attention. They did it because of their faith! Their belief is "persist in doing one thing well and not let it become a joke halfway." They are worthy of recognition and praise from society!

      为了让市民们有一个更清洁的市容市貌迎接新年，2019年12月30日上午十点新西兰环保协会的成员们巳准时在西区Henderson的图书馆门口集合了。他们今天要展开捡垃圾行动，让市民在节日里有一个清洁的环境，他们决定用这种特殊的方式来迎接新年的到来。他们兵分三路，分别在不同的区域实行捡垃圾行动。不论是丛林深处或是花槽路边，还是排水小道，他们所到之处都迅速变得清洁整齐。今天除了环保协会的成员外，还加入了几位"新成员"，他们是Zoey小朋友6岁，Jayden小朋友5岁，Erik小朋友4岁。他们今天是要亲自来体验一下公公婆婆们是怎样为了环境的清洁奉献他们的爱心的。小朋友们看到公公婆婆们很不容易的把每一块块地方的垃圾都清得干干净净，小朋友们都忍不住说;"我们以后发现有人乱扔垃圾，就告诉他们垃圾不能乱扔，应该扔到垃圾桶"。同时小朋友们也积极认真的用他们的小手和工具把废弃的垃圾一件一件捡起来放进垃圾专用袋里，这一幕让人无比动容。这是一堂多么活生生的言传身教的社会道德课程啊...。这不仅仅是一堂环保道德教育课，更是奉献与大爱的深刻教育课。我相信这一课，相比孩子们在课堂上老师所讲的理论教育课程意义更重大，影响更深远、印象更深刻。相信孩子们透过这次捡垃圾的亲身体验，能传达给他们环保意识和奉献精神。

    在这，我要向这一群坚持了七年充当"环保天使"的60多岁至80多岁的长者们致敬！因为你们不显眼的动作，吸引了新西兰本地人和本地主流媒体，正因为你们七年来的"环保行动"引起了新西兰政府的重视和支持，更因为你们默默无私的奉献吸引了新西兰总理亲自接见，华人为你们而骄傲！在这，也呼吁新西兰侨领们和华人媒体朋友们，希望你们在百忙中，适当把目光转过来关注一下这群默默为环保献出大爱的长者们。我相信,这群长者们是值得社会大众关注的。因为他们坚守的信念他们做到了！他们的信念是"坚持做好一件事,让她成为神话，而不要半途而废让它成为笑话″。他们成就了神话故事，他们是值得社会肯定和赞扬的！

来源：新西兰学生报

文稿:Susan

照片:Susan、刁四雍

英文翻译:Misty.Cecilia

编辑:橘橘