"Mum, I want to play trampoline once more; it's so amusing here." With sweat dripping down his face, 4-year-old Tenzin played with various kinds of toys without a moment of silence at the "home for recurrent women and children" of the Garmagongsang Residential Neighborhood Committee.
"Since its founding in June, the home has provided us recurrent people all types of training on policies, laws and skills, as well as information consultation services. Sometimes, staff members of the committee even became temporary nursery-maids of our children. It has helped us in every possible way, making us feel as happy as returning home." Drolma, who came from Qinghai Province to Lhasa five years ago and opened a grocery store there, could not contain her excitement when speaking of her present life.
Zholma, a migrant worker from Shannan Prefecture, never thought that all her checks-up in the Health Center of Ngaqen Township, Lhasa, would be free.
Photo shows the books for migrant female workers, displayed in "home for recurrent women and children" of the Garmagongsang Residential Neighborhood Committee, Chengguan District, downtown Lhasa. (China Tibet Information Center Photo)"I never feel I'm an outlander here. I can enjoy the same treatment in medical services as the local women. For example, local women will be given medicines for a course of treatment according to their prescriptions if necessary. Now, you see, I have received physical examination and got such a large parcel of medicines without paying a single penny," said Zholma, with a five-year-old son.
At her first arrival in Lhasa, Zholma had no idea when and where her boy could get vaccinated. It was a worker of the committee who told her that they could receive free vaccination in the township's health center.
"Now, my son is growing in Lhasa healthy and strong." the rural woman added, "It's worth mentioning that after the A/H1N1 flu broke out, the government issued every household a brochure on how to prevent this epidemic. Government officials even paid door-to-door visits, advising us to pay closer attention to personal sanitation and asking us not to be panic if infected."
Chilai from Qamdo has stayed in Lhasa for 20 years. He is an enthusiast in every activity of singing revolutionary songs held by the Neighborhood Office of the Kirey Community, downtown Lhasa.
Singing each song with great passion, the aged man could not help recalling the significant changes taking place in Tibet since the democratic reform was launched in 1959. "These scenes like moving pictures have played in my mind. Every time after finishing singing our songs, we are so excited as to shout at the top of our voices that 'We are Chinese! We love our motherland!"
Dorje, director of the office, noted that the children of these migrants enjoy the exactly same rights as local students to attend school. They can go to the three kindergartens in the area under the office's jurisdiction before entering primary schools. For those newly-arriving pupils from elsewhere, the office will help them to handle their enrollment procedures from July to August every year.
Source: Xinhuanet
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