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Yu Yan(pseudonym)lives in a remote mountain top of
the Guanlan Sisters’ home village far away from school. The family
is extremely poor. She, her mother and grandmother are mentally
disabled. Ten years ago, her father took her disabled mother with
him to the city to work, but hasn’t been heard from since, leaving
his young daughter with her disabled grandparents to fend for
themselves in the mountains.The grandparents have never been beyond
the village. Yu Yan dropped out of school in grade two and now helps
her grandma to do housework, to take the sheep to graze up the hill
every day and evening accompanied only by the sun, moon and her
sheep. She wants to go back to school, but the burden on her family
makes it impossible.
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Honghong (pseudonym), her father was sentenced to prison for 15
years and her mother could not suffer the extreme poverty and ran
away from home and never returned back. The 9-year-old girl is
living in her aunt's village house for two years now.She was made
funof by her classmates for the imprisonment of her father and
broken familyand she dropped out of school. Her aunt is poor too and
can only help her with some salt and oil. She has to farm to feed
herself.
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ShanDangdang(pseudonym)was given away as a young girl to a man with
a mental illness to take care of him and his father, to do the
household and farm work for them. Her birth grandmother had died
very early, her Grandfather had been old, frail and sick, and her
parents had abandoned them. She began to receive the Guanlan
Scholarship in 2013, and every year Pang Jian must persuade the men
to let her continue her studies. The Children’s Service Center
continues to counsel Shandangdang to give her needed guidance and
encouragement. In 2015, she graduated from junior high school and
tested into a local vocational-technical high school majoring in
preschool education. In March this year, she started her internship
in a kindergarten. She has changed her destiny.
Guanlan Scholarship Foundation Newsletter, Winter 2017 |
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