Zhang Kai is from Heilongjiang, and he was a policeman in the past. In October 2021, Zhang and his volunteer (志愿者) team drove to Shanxi to help out. The flood (洪水) broke a lot of houses there, and people needed help. Zhang and his team took boats, medicine and clothes there.
In fact, Zhang just came back from Putian, Fujian before that. In Putian, he helped fight against COVID-19. And before working in Putian, he was in Zhengzhou, Henan to help save people after the flood brought many problems to the city.
Zhang started his volunteer work in 2020. In January that year, he set up a volunteer car team and took the necessary things to hospitals in Dongguan, Guangdong. One month later, Zhang and his team traveled over 1,100 km to take doctors, COVID-19 patients (病人) and other useful things to Wuhan. From then on, Zhang and his team kept driving to different places to help others.
▲ To save time, Zhang and other volunteers often had to sleep in their own cars, and be on standby (待命) twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. "When people need help, I will go to help them," said Zhang.