Poverty-stricken village in Yunnan helps isolated children enroll for basic schooling
11/29/2020




A poverty-stricken village in the remote mountainous region of southwest China's Yunnan Province helped four isolated children enroll for basic schooling, as China moves to implement targeted poverty alleviation.

Years of being isolated have left the four children needing time to adapt, so the local government specially provided a classroom and a temporary teacher to help them transition before enrolling for classes with other pupils.

"Every day we teach them once or twice, then see if they are interested, if not, we let them to play games on tablets, and afterwards resume teaching again," said Shi Yunfu, villager and also the temporary teacher of these four kids.

At the school, which specially built for relocated people, students are taught to learn both mandarin and Lisu native language.

The village and school decided to implement a residential system for all students to help students develop good living habits, integrate into the environment of school and keep up the normal pace of children elsewhere in the compulsory education stage.

"All their things, including their living necessities, were bought by the school and offered to them for free. We must create opportunities for kids to enroll and stay here,while learning well at the school," said Zhang Lizhong, president of Conggang Primary School.

Shi Jinsheng, director of the supervisory committee of village affairs in Conggang Village, said this school is the hope of the young generation and will help bring more children out of poverty.

"This school is the hope of the young generation. As we went to the urban area of the city for meetings or business, we found there was no one from our village working in the municipal government, though there are more than 2,500 residents in the village. We felt the necessity of education in person. Therefore we must implement education for every single student, so that they can study and walk out of the village, which brings hope," added Shi.