Nanxi Town once had 14 founding generals. For a long time, many children here can't go to school because of poverty. In the past, the school building of Nanxi Central Primary School was converted from the dilapidated Peng ancestral hall.
Now, the reporter saw in Jinzhai Hope Primary School that the dilapidated ancestral hall of its predecessor Nanxi Primary School has disappeared, and there is also a microcomputer classroom here. Principal Peng Dahai told reporters that the teaching environment of the school has been greatly improved. The school has trained more than 4,000 graduates from the original 8 classes with more than 400 students, and more than 400 of them have been admitted to universities.
With the completion of the first Hope Primary School in China and the continuous influx of social donations, the number of Hope Primary Schools is increasing by more than 760 every year, and tens of thousands of rural primary schools in poverty-stricken areas bid farewell to dangerous houses, directly benefiting tens of millions of children. Educational facilities such as libraries, digital film equipment, hope online schools, happy sports gardens and happy music classrooms have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.
Before September of 1 year, 79 schools had been built and put into use.
Over the past 20 years, Project Hope has built more than10.5 million hope primary schools, donated more than10.4 million hope project libraries and trained more than 56,000 rural primary school teachers. Tens of thousands of rural primary schools in poverty-stricken areas bid farewell to dangerous buildings and become hope primary schools, 80% of which are concentrated in the western, central and northeastern provinces of China. In the past 20 years, Hope Primary School has been spread in China like a "seed of hope", giving children struggling to drop out of school a chance to learn. More and more children are learning knowledge in Hope Primary School and changing their destiny.
"Without the Hope Project, there would be no me today." Zhang Shengli, the first recipient of China Hope Project, said with deep affection. 1989 10 Taomugeda Village, Laiyuan County, Hebei Province welcomed the staff of the Central Committee of the * * * Youth League and the China Youth Development Foundation. Zhang Shengli and another 12 out-of-school children became the first batch of children who hoped for project funding. After graduating from Shanghai No.1 Normal School, Zhang Shengli returned to his hometown and became a teacher. He wants to pass on his love and hope to more children.
199 1, the photo of Su Mingjuan, a first-grade girl, holding a pencil tip and two big eyes full of curiosity touched the hearts of hundreds of millions of people in China: "I want to study!" From these bright eyes, people read out the educational dilemma faced by poor areas and the helplessness and desire of all children who are out of school.
"Like millions of children from poor families, I hope this project has changed our destiny. If there is no hope project, I probably can't even go to high school. " Su Mingjuan, spokesman of China Hope Project, said. After graduating from Anhui University in 2005, she went to work in Anhui Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
The teaching conditions in mountainous areas are very poor, making it difficult for children to study. Su Mingjuan clearly recalled the zhang wan Primary School where he was studying: the classroom was low and shabby, and there was no money to glass the windows in winter. He was afraid that the light was not good and covered with plastic sheets, so he had to let the cold wind roar into the classroom, and the children huddled with cold.
"The news on the mountain was blocked, and I didn't know there was this photo at that time. It was not until 1994 that Uncle Li Wan, who was studying in Hunan Military Academy at that time, sent the newspaper and letter that published this photo to our school, saying that he would find the person in the photo and be willing to fund him to graduate from primary school. " Su Mingjuan said.
Li Wan was the first person to help Su Mingjuan go to school. He saved his meager pocket money one yuan at a time and gave Su Mingjuan 65,438,000 yuan each semester until he graduated from primary school. "I hope that the help given by the project is not only material, but also spiritual. It made me understand the meaning of love. " Su Mingjuan said.
When she was in junior high school, an old man in Tianjin sent her money from 600 yuan. With financial support, Su Mingjuan got the consent of the elderly and transferred the donation to the China Youth Foundation to help others.
"Helping others is a virtue, and repaying society is an obligation." As the spokesperson of China Hope Project, Su Mingjuan has been actively participating in public welfare activities for many years and repaying the society. During college, she went to the streets to sell newspapers with her classmates and donated the money she earned to Project Hope. In 2006, she donated her salary of 1000 yuan to Anhui Hope Project Office. Su Mingjuan can be seen in many public welfare activities. ...
Nowadays, some children who have completed their studies with the support of Project Hope have become skilled workers in enterprises, some have returned to local villages as rural teachers, and some have become researchers and senior managers ... Project Hope has changed the fate of many children from poor rural families in China, and even changed the fate of the whole family.
Le, deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee of Jinzhai County, told reporters that Jinzhai County has trained the first college student, graduate student and doctoral student Zhang Zongyou who was promoted to colleges and universities with the help of Project Hope. Deng Lei, who was awarded the title of "Star of Hope" in China, was admitted to the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China in 2007, becoming the first junior college student in China to be promoted to the university by Project Hope.
Zhou Biaoliang, the headmaster of Hope Primary School in Pingguo County, Baise City, Guangxi Province, is the beneficiary of Hope Project and the winner of the title of Model Teacher of Hope Primary School. She said: "I grew up from a drop-out child to the principal of Hope Primary School. Project Hope has changed my fate, as well as the fate of millions of out-of-school children. I will do my best to repay the society, try my best to convey love and help more people in need. " Gao Yanhua, a rural girl of 1 1, was deeply attracted by the school library. She can read such a variety of books as soon as she goes to school, and she especially cherishes this opportunity.
Gao Yanhua is a sixth-grade student of Jiang Yang Hope Primary School in Minhou County, Fuzhou, Fujian. At the end of 2003, the year before she entered school, the school bid farewell to the dilapidated teaching building and moved into a bright new teaching building. Since then, the school has also had a special library. Xu Mugan of Jiang Yang Hope Primary School said that due to the remoteness of Jiang Yang Village, the original Jiang Yang Primary School was converted from a local temple in the late 1960s, and it became a dangerous building due to disrepair. Today, Jiangyang Hope Primary School is donated by Shanghai Press and Publication Bureau, and various supporting facilities such as places for students' cultural and sports activities are readily available.
In the remote rural areas of China, many children are crowded into dark and dangerous old school buildings for reading and writing every day. Building Hope Primary School and building a safe and bright school for students has become an important way to improve the conditions for running schools in poor areas.
18 years ago, the first Hope Primary School in Fujian was built in Hukeng Town, Yongding County, Longyan City. Up to now, Fujian Hope Project has received donations of 228 million yuan from home and abroad, and 405 hope primary schools have been built, with more than 65.438+0.2 million students.
Tu Meng, Secretary-General of China Youth Development Foundation, said that in the past 20 years, as the initiator and organizer of Project Hope, China Youth Development Foundation has been adhering to the core values of "helping others to help themselves" and the public welfare concept of "making all farmers' descendants have books to read", mobilizing society, assisting the government, and providing continuous and multifaceted help and support to students from poor rural families.
In the past 20 years, caring people have worked together to light the lamp of hope for poor children and help them take the first step in the knowledge hall.
Zhou Huosheng is a household name in Jinzhai County. From 1995 to 14, the retired teacher from Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province went to Jinzhai County 78 times to help poor students in Dashan. He personally donated more than 200,000 yuan and mobilized more than 50 units and 500 caring people in Kunshan to donate more than 3.2 million yuan to Hope Project. Subsidize 700 poor students; 5 1 The students were admitted to the university.
Tang, a 0/3-year-old junior high school student in Yuqi Town, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, is terminally ill. 1996 Before his death, he asked his mother Zhang Shumei to send some tuition fees to poor students in Jinzhai Mountain area every year after his death. Zhang Shumei fulfilled her son's last wish. From 1997 to now, this respectable mother 10 has insisted on sending 300 yuan tuition to Hope Primary School in Jinzhai County every year to help a poor student.
Zhao Weizhong, a former deputy political commissar of the Hebei Military Region, is over 70 years old. During the 65,438+07 years after his retirement in 65,438+0992, he campaigned for children in poor mountainous areas. He and his family donated 6.5438+million yuan to the Hope Project to help 650 students, and also mobilized all sectors of society to donate more than 6.5438+million yuan to the Hope Project. The children affectionately call him "Grandpa Hope".
On the map of the motherland, we may not be able to count the specific names of the10.5 million hope primary schools that have been built, but the "hope" brought by "hope primary schools" has already illuminated the way forward for students in poor areas. ...