"Yuan Cafe" run by Zhang Hongbao Campus in Qinhuangdao

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In the warm cabin with unique style, hold a cup of freshly brewed coffee, read, chat, listen to music, play chess, let rational thoughts insert romantic dream wings in the fragrant coffee taste, dock society and explore life in the fragrant coffee shop. This is Zhang Hongbao's "Yuan Coffee" public welfare project, which is the relay of the university youth public welfare project under the Future Public Welfare Culture Development Center, and the first landing product of Zhang Hongbao's public welfare dream. in less than a year, more than 30 exchange activities have been held here, which has become a diversified cross-border interactive and cooperative platform for the docking of college students and social resources.

The little coffee shop in the university

Yuanyuan Coffee is transformed from a classroom on the third floor of the comprehensive building of Qinhuangdao Institute of Building Materials, and the interior design is all written by some college students. Zhang Hongbao handed over the daily operation to college students who volunteered to join after his establishment. The house is equipped with simple, oil-painting-style freehand windows; the long bar, in addition to the coffee maker, is a small book for the exchange of ideas in the university; a few are scattered on the Zhen table, and a row of bookshelves filled with all kinds of books and periodicals. Walking in here makes people relax.

"I want to build it into a diversified cross-border interactive and cooperative platform for college students and social resources, and an open school of youth cultural and public life. Through this platform, we can provide college youth public welfare entrepreneurship with consultation, guidance, training, evaluation, project start-up funds, resource links, social communication and other aspects of support, so that college students can learn more about public welfare and participate in public welfare, so that college students can form a sense of social responsibility and mission before entering the society. " Founder Zhang Hongbao, lean and capable, smiled and introduced to us the original purpose of this small cafe and the functions it currently has. "now in the house, in addition to providing coffee shop-style leisure services; library-style public welfare books reading, museum-style public welfare culture display; campus elite culture image database; actors composed of the" live library ", it also irregularly holds high-frequency salons on different themes to share and exchange, develop and support various sustainable public welfare entrepreneurship projects and public welfare cultural activities conducive to the growth of young people. All participants only need to pay 1 yuan per cup of coffee to enjoy the above services freely, and all the net profits from the one yuan coffee item will also be injected into the "one yuan coffee campus public welfare fund", which is mainly used to support college students' public welfare entrepreneurship. Therefore, it is purely commonweal.

According to Zhang Hongbao, his plan was supported by the leaders of Hebei Building Materials University as soon as it was launched. in the case of tight housing, a classroom was specially vacated to allow this public welfare project to be landed. The project has been on the right track since it began operation in May 2014. with the support of volunteers from public universities, more than 30 exchange activities have been held, which has achieved good social results. Therefore, although there is no deliberate promotion, student teams from many universities, such as Beijing normal University, Xi'an University of Architectural Science and Technology, Hunan University, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen University, Hebei normal University of Science and Technology, and Qinhuangdao Campus of Northeast University, have applied to it for the establishment of an one-yuan coffee public welfare project, and some enterprises expect to contribute money to cooperate with it.

Students' dreams grow up here.

In the numerous guestbooks stored in the coffee shop, the reporter flipped through them as if bathed in the warm winter sun. In this book, the reporter saw that Tan Xidong wrote in the guestbook, "since I came into contact with the coffee shop for more than half a year, great changes have taken place both in mind and character!" Has also grown up a lot! One yuan coffee for students to build a window to understand this society, through contact with outstanding people from all walks of life, so that we can understand ourselves more clearly, know how to combine the industry, and learn more clearly and effectively. Here, you can get in touch with and learn a lot of things that can't be learned (or can't be learned at all) in school. There are also many resources available to us college students who will provide us with help and support when necessary. "

Classmate Wang Yuguo wrote, "Yuan Coffee makes me think about the future." Originally, I participated in all kinds of salons organized by coffee houses with doubts, but when many questions that have been troubling me have been answered in the sharing of corporate interviews, social surveys, offline salons, book clubs, positive energy fraternities, and so on, when I come into contact with so many social elites who are willing to share, let me start to think about the meaning and future of my existence. "

Zhang Ruochen, who participated in the management of Yuan Yuan Coffee, told reporters, "Yuan Coffee is a place where people dare to dream." Every time I sit and chat with some strangers, a cup of warm coffee instantly shortens the distance between us. Here, I know a lot of friends and find that they are doing things that their peers have never done before. and I was surprised that college is not just about eating, drinking and simple study, but there are a lot of things that we of the younger generation can do. More importantly, in the process of participating in and managing Yuan Coffee, I made myself understand the importance of the team and honed my ability to get in touch with the society. "

…… It turns out that there are so many students who recognize and rely on this small coffee shop, their dreams fly here, and their thoughts collide here, illuminating the way forward.

Zhang Hongbao's persistence and Dream

Under the sun, always expect something new to happen, and those who pursue their dreams are running non-stop. Zhang Hongbao is a traveler who does not want to just be a passer-by in the city. he inspired his dream in times of crisis and tried his best to guard the glimmer of dream. let it grow, take root, blossom, and bear sweet fruit.

In Zhang Hongbao's story, the reporter learned that in 2007, Zhang Hongbao, who had just graduated from university, was on his way to Xizang because he loved to travel and drove with his friends. The vicious and bad natural conditions made him go through the test of life and death. At that time, he had no worries about food and clothing. In the most difficult times, he sprouted the idea that he should not be busy but should fight for his soul. After getting out of danger, he gave up his stable job and sent his wife and newborn child back to his hometown in Yan'an. For more than a year, he traveled alone through Sanya, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Harbin and other cities, during which he was penniless. Food, clothing, housing and transportation were supported by friends, and he met many people who ran for the public good and felt their strength. In the end, he determined the direction of cultural communication from the perspective of public welfare.

After painstaking research and understanding, at the end of 2013, he formulated 15 public welfare projects, such as "Dragon Soul passenger Station" and "Yuan Coffee", and took them to Beijing and Tianjin to dock with public welfare organizations and people who had been associated with them to seek cooperation. Finally, relying on the university campus culture and easy to operate, "Yuan Coffee" has been recognized by many people, and with the support of the school and a caring enterprise, the project began to be built on campus.

During the years of research and project landing, Zhang Hongbao only supported himself by occasional odd jobs, his wife and children were all supported by his family, and a box of instant noodles was often his food ration for a month, and sometimes he had to meet people he had made an appointment. When he got to the bus stop, he found that he had only one yuan in his pocket and could not even take the bus. However, he rejected requests from a number of companies to join. "in this process, I never feel bitter, and it is easy to make money, but I just want to go along the road of public welfare." However, when he mentioned his wife and children, tears welled up in Zhang Hongbao's eyes. He said that he could only meet his wife and children once or twice a year. His son was more than two years old, but he could not recognize what his father looked like. The last thing I can't face is the harm to my family.

Wish: to prosper the public art life on campus

"Let the body go to hell, let the eyes go to heaven, I look up to heaven in hell, the soul is transformed in the pain of the body, the mind is sublimated under the whip of nature, there is no desire, there is no self, there is the people, the world." This is Zhang Hongbao's motto. He says that next he wants to sublimate the Yuan Cafe and run the College of Public Art and Life based on a volunteer team of college students. He said that there is no one but loves his hometown, but in recent years, traditional culture has been lost in many places. He wants to set up a "folklore Culture Development Committee" under the Yuan Coffee platform to join with fellow townsmen in colleges and universities to promote and spread folk songs and dances. Such as northern Shaanxi Yangko, waist drum, etc., so that these cultural essence can be maintained and inherited, and enrich the campus culture.

Source: Hebei News Network