52,100 Sanitation Workers Enjoy Free Breakfast in Henan Province

52,100 Sanitation Workers Enjoy Free Breakfast in Henan Province

河南，5.21万环卫工吃上免费早餐

At 5:30 am on December 12, on Songshan Road of Luohe city, Chen Sanlin, a 56-year-old sanitation worker, looked at the road that had been cleaned and went to a special rest area along the road for outdoor labor to get a free breakfast.

12月12日早上5点半，漯河市嵩山路上，56岁的环卫工人陈三林看了看已经打扫干净的路面，放心地朝附近的户外劳动者爱心驿站走去，领上一份爱心早餐。

Since the first launch of “Free Breakfast Project for Sanitation Workers” by Luohe Municipal Federation of Trade Unions in 2015, free breakfast was delivered on time every day, which has eased sanitation workers’ worries about and satisfied their needs for breakfast.

自2015年漯河市总工会在全省率先启动“环卫工爱心早餐工程”以来，每天准时送到身边的冒着热气的爱心早餐，让“陈三林们”再也不用为如何解决早餐问题发愁了。

Providing free breakfast for sanitation workers. [Photo provided to dahe.cn]

To provide free breakfast for more sanitation workers, Henan Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, at the beginning of this year, listed “giving support to providing free breakfast for sanitation workers” as one of its “ten practical matters” that should be accomplished by 2019, requiring all places in Henan province to promote Luohe’s experience and support trade unions at all levels and relevant government departments to provide free breakfast for sanitation workers.

为让更多环卫工人吃上放心、舒心的爱心早餐，今年年初，河南省总工会将“支持对环卫工人提供免费早餐”列入2019年为广大职工突出办好的“十件实事”，要求推广漯河等地经验，支持省辖市、县（市、区）工会和政府有关部门为一线环卫工人提供免费早餐。

Pilot projects were carried out quickly by the trade unions of 18 prefecture-level cities. In Nanyang, through “government financial subsidy + voluntary donation of caring enterprises and people + part of funds provided by Nanyang Municipal Federation of Trade Unions”, 12 out of 15 counties (county-level cities, districts) of the city are able to provide free breakfast, benefiting 7,753 sanitation workers. In Hebi, the Federation of Trade Unions of Shancheng District has widened its circle of compassion, providing free breakfast not only for sanitation workers, but also for traffic police, urban management officers, defense teams, etc. In Kaifeng, every year the government spends more than 8 million yuan ensuring that 4,837 sanitation workers have access to free breakfast. In Zhengzhou, 4 counties (county-level cities, districts) have carried out the project, with subsidies of 5 yuan per person per meal, funded by the local government.

各省辖市工会试点迅速行动。在南阳，当地通过“政府财政补助＋爱心企业及爱心人士自发捐助＋市总工会经费调节补充”的多元渠道筹集资金，全市15个县（市、区）中，有12个为环卫工人发放免费早餐，覆盖环卫工人7753人。在鹤壁，山城区总工会还扩大关爱范围，为交警、城管、联防大队等户外劳动职工免费发放早餐券。在开封，4837名环卫工人吃上爱心早餐，政府每年为此投入费用800余万元。在郑州，已有4个县（市、区）开展环卫工人免费早餐工作，补贴标准均为每人每餐5元，由当地政府出资。

Providing free breakfast for sanitation workers. [Photo provided to dahe.cn]

Incomplete statistics show that at present 78 counties (county-level cities, districts) within 18 prefecture-level cities have provided 8.6617 million free breakfast in total, benefiting 52,100 sanitation workers. The governments at all levels, trade unions, social welfare organizations, caring people and enterprises have totally invested 71.3414 million yuan to provide free breakfast for sanitation workers.

据不完全统计，目前全省18个省辖市、78个县（市、区）开展了为环卫工人提供免费早餐工作，惠及环卫工人5.21万人，提供早餐866.17万人次。全省各级政府、工会组织、社会公益组织、爱心人士、爱心企业已累计投入7134.14万元为环卫工人提供免费早餐。（记者陈小平 编译赵汉青 审校白玉杰）