HELP POOR CHILDREN, DONATE CLOTHES TO SICHUAN, CHINA

Yanni Yu

Feb 19, 2019

2 min read

Updated: Feb 25, 2019

1. We welcome clean children’s clothes and shoes

2. Contact: +86 15351465115 Lei Zhang

3. Address: No.130 Jiefang Road, Shimian, Yaan, Sichuan province, China. 625400

According to Standard Chartered Bank’s estimation that by 2020, China will replace the U.S. as the biggest economy, China is developing in an astonishing speed with its increasing overseas investment and influence.

However, China is polarized by its advancing technologies and a large number of people that remain impoverished. There are still 585 poverty-stricken countries in China and 99% of China’s poor life in or come from rural areas.

I was volunteering at a primary school in rural area of China, I gained direct experience and learned the cruel fact that poverty is somehow meaning the eradication of their education and future.

The children’s parents are working in cities and probably only come back home once a year or even longer. The children are often live with their grandparents, while (1) due to lack of guidance from sound educational theory from grandparents, (2) neglect the importance of education, (3) tend to have more children, they will become poorer and the children cannot be taken good care of and easily to drop out of school in an early age.

Most children who come from poor families do not have proper clothes to wear that they wear the same clothes every day and wash them on weekends, as time goes by, the clothes worn-out with holes. The hardest time is winter, they have no heat in their house and school. This boy is called "ice boy" by netizens(shown in the beginning of this blog), he spends 1.5 hours walked 4.5 kilos to get to school, his mother left the family, father is working away in the city, he lives with his grandmother and sister. Just like his hands, many children from his class are suffering from chilblains too.