In July 2014, I was assigned to participate in Humana People to People TCE Project (TCE Yuexi) by the local Women’s Federation (WF/Yuexi WF). I decided to accept it with strong  will and  in spite of the disagreement from my family, relatives and friends. Although it might be a road fulfilled with thorns, I would make it a smooth road by myself. I will never change my mind after I made a decision, and  won’t let my superiors down.

More than one year has passed, the work was very difficult and I met many challenges, but I always told myself that perseverance means victory. The door-to-door health knowledge promotion and education and family counseling and testing played an important role in my outreach work. I met lots of things which made me chew and sign. When I saw villagers who had never received any education and could not read any word, I hoped it would be great if there was a literacy class; I felt sorry for the women who suffered from domestic violence but didn’t know how to use law as a weapon to protect her; and I respect the young man with physical disabilities but developing animal breeding with strong will; I felt sad to tears when I saw the HIV/AIDS orphans were leading hard lives; I also felt upset when I sawthe school-aged children just staying at home and living in unenlightened environments.

During the door-to-door training and consultation, based on the local situation, I helped the villagers to cultivate a better habit of personal hygiene, mobilized them to do premarital check-up and pregnancy checking actively to ensure the health of the next generation. I teached villagers how to use condoms correctly and told them how dangerous it was to take drugs. I especially focused on explaining HIV/AIDS prevention and control knowledge and the preferential policy of “Four Frees and One Care”. I was glad that after more than one year of efforts, the villagers started to support my work and no longer  refused me to help them with counseling and testing. It is an acknowledging and praising to my work and I will work harder to benefit more and more villagers.

As a rural female official, my work is very ordinary, but I believe that with my hard work, I can help to implement the good policy which will benefit the villagers and help to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of women and children. Although I’m busy with my work every day, I feel fulfilled and happy.

TCE project background

HPP TCE project helps imrove the sexual and reproductive health in Yuexi County. TCE cooperates with Women's Federation in Yuexi County,AIDS office,CDC,Health centre for women and children, and  is funded by AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Chinese Association of STD&AIDS Prevention and Control.Through visit door by door, one on one and face to face,TCE educates and mobilizes the community on HIV/AIDS，supports people to change behavior, mobilizes pregnant women to give birth in hospital and enrolls HIV positive women in PMTCT.

 Women training

 Door-to-door health knowledge promotion and education by Liu Min

 Counseling after testing