The rescue and shelter center was completed in mid-June, and Magistrate Ji was specially invited to come and cut the ribbon.
After cutting the ribbon, Shen Wan also visited the shelter with Magistrate Ji and the people who were curious about the shelter.
Magistrate Ji and the people saw that there was everything inside, and they all agreed after visiting it. While visiting, the people also asked what kind of people could enter the rescue and reception center. The stewards Shen Wan asked You He to recruit were also introduced in detail one by one.
The rescue and shelter center employs twenty employees, both men and women, and more than half of them are skilled craftsmen.
"Women who have been abandoned by their husbands and have nowhere to go, and who have no way to survive outside, can also come to our rescue and shelter center for help. Our shelter center will provide them with housing and teach them skills to make money and support themselves in the world. ..." Manager Yu stood in front of the building where women and children lived and introduced it to everyone.
This steward is a woman of about thirty years old, gentle, dignified, and literate. She was abandoned by her husband's family because she could not have children. Her brothers also despised her. If it had been another woman, she would not have survived, but she He is tenacious and has established his own business outside.
Because he was very talented in reading and writing, he also opened a private school for girls.
But because of her status as an abandoned woman, no one was willing to send their children to her private school for girls, so she taught the children of her neighbors to read and read for free.
She managed to survive for several years with dowry, but this year she couldn't survive anymore. The county boss built an academy to admit female students free of charge, so she closed the private school.
Out of admiration for Shen Wan, the county owner, she heard that the county's rescue and shelter center was looking for a caring and empathetic female manager who could write, write, and be caring and empathetic, so she came to apply for the job. She actually got the job.
After getting to know the shelter in detail, Manager Yu has even more admiration for Shen Wan, the county owner. This shelter can be said to be a refuge for desperate women.
"Can someone who is not abandoned come to us for help?" A woman with her hair wrapped in a cloth, sunken cheeks, and a sad look on her face, wearing coarse linen clothes, mustered up the courage to ask.
She was going to the city to sell embroidery work. When she passed by, she saw people setting off cannons and cutting ribbons, and many people gathered around her. It was very lively, so she followed the others and walked over to watch the excitement.
I heard that everyone can come in to visit, so I followed everyone in.
Manager Yu looked at the woman and was about to answer when he heard the county chief say: "If you are not abandoned, if you encounter abuse or domestic violence from your husband's family, you can come to our rescue center for help. Our rescue center will provide shelter."
"There are also those who are abused by their parents and relatives at home and have no one to make decisions. Regardless of men, women, old or young, they can go to the rescue and shelter center to seek help."
After hearing this, some people raised objections.
"It is said that it is difficult for an upright official to deal with household matters. These are considered household matters. Isn't it wrong for the rescue and shelter center to take care of these matters?"
"That's right. Besides, how can this couple not fight?"
"If the mother-in-law disobeys me, she will naturally have to be beaten before she becomes honest."
"That's right." Several men agreed.
Many older women who became mothers-in-law also nodded in agreement, "This shelter can take in the elderly, orphans, and people with disabilities who have no one to take care of them. Why should we take in abandoned women?" And the one who was abused, if this woman is a good woman, can she still be abandoned and abused by her husband’s family?”