Anti-Poverty Achievement Award

By Xie Hailong
0 Comment(s)Print E-mail China.org.cn, October 18, 2011

Students are very concentrated in their class. As many as one million students drop out of school every year in China due to poverty.

Students are very concentrated in their class. As many as one million students drop out of school every year in China due to poverty. The Hope Project is a Chinese public benefit project launched and organized by the China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF) and the Communist Youth League (CYL) Central Committee.

Students study in a cave and use stone boards as their notebooks in a village in Shaanxi province.

Students warm their hands on the stove during a class break in a village in Luanping, Hebei province.

The elder sister gives her received donation to her younger sister, and the younger sister was moved to tears.

A non-governmental school in poor conditions is seen in rural Shaanxi province.

An 11-year-old child carries bricks everyday in a factory to earn her tuition.

Students dream of having a new classroom as a recent storm destroyed their classroom in Weiyuan, Gansu province.

Some students have to walk five kilometers everyday to come to this school in poor conditions in rural Guizhou province.

Students have their physical exercise class in a village in Shaanxi province.

Students carry benches and desks to school in a village in Shaanxi province.

Students study on a stone grinder in a village in Shaanxi province.

Students are forced to study in the open air as their classroom is in danger of collapse due to loose maintenance.

A new day begins in a small school in rural Guizhou province.

A 12-year-old girl who has never been to school has to collect firewood everyday, rain or shine.

Students study in a classroom flooded by a spring shower.

Students study by oil lamps in a village school in Shanxi province.

A 72-year-old man who has lost his wife, son and daughter-in-law cries when his two grandsons wanted to go to school.

A teacher carries her child on her back while teaching a class in a village school in Guangxi province.

Students walk to school in rural Sichuan province.

Students study the donated computers attentively in a village school in Henan province.

Students study the donated computers attentively in a village school in Henan province.

14-year-old Su Mingjuan is named an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Youth League at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

An old teacher tells the story of a school where students had to sit on a stone grinder to study to villagers.

A new school is built with the donations from the Hope Project.

The teacher who used to carry her child to class attends a high-profile teaching award ceremony in Beijing with her daughter, now a junior at Nanning Normal University.

Students have full access to the nine-year compulsory education in Mizhi, Shaanxi province.

Students enjoy breakfast distributed by the local government in Mizhi, Shaanxi province.

Students receive sports facilities donated by the McDonald's Corporation in Xifeng, Gansu province.

Students receive free textbooks at a village school in Guizhou province.

Students look forward to studying in the newly-built school in Sichuan province.

Students wait outside the dinning hall for their meals. The 3,000 some students at this school were all covered by the national plan that exempts students of impoverished families tuition, textbook fees and subsidizes those who live at school.

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