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Yongchang Township Hezhai nine-year school (2017 CyberFair Project ID 8298)
China, Gansu, Wuwei
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 2. Community Groups and Special Populations

We estimate 4 student(s) from 13 to 15 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Yongchang town is located in the north of the city of Liangzhou, Gansu, the town area is 108 square kilometers, of which has 75700 acres of arable land under the jurisdiction of 22 administrative villages. Due to the geographical environment and some special factors, the economy is mainly agricultural production, people's economic income is not high, and the level of living is low. The children living in the center or southern Yongchang Town are educated at Hezai 9-year school

Project Description: Our school is located in group 3 of Xiaoxi village, Yongchang Town., and now has more than 1208 students, among them, backward students have 151, taking up 12.5%. Most of them live with their old grandparents or other relatives or even some hosts of private apartments. Those temporary guardians always pay more attention to the raising than to their education. Since the parents who are far from being competent guardians are working outside and have little time to stay and communicate with their children, and the predominant generation-skipping education still leaves much to be desired, left-behind children are thirsty for family love, thus developing some problems in mental health, personality and study. As a result, those children who should have been the apples of their parents’ eyes now gradually become a vulnerable group. Therefore, we confine our investigation to the left-behind students around us, so as to do our own small part to help them and let them know that they are not alone any longer.

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