One Girl, One Village, Many Generations

Dang Yang (pseudonym) comes from a family of seven people her mother has a mental and her father a physical disability but is the only earner in the whole family.
With the help of the Scholarship, Dang graduated from Senior Secondary school and in 2018 was admitted to college majoring in nursing. Here is an excerpt from her annual letter,

"College has given me the space to show myself and a platform to pursue my dream. Without your help, I wouldn’t have had the chance to experience this wonderful university life I wouldn’t have gotten this professional higher education.
Thank you for your help, you gave me hope for getting an education.

My desire for learning was like an eagle with broken wings. It is your arrival that gave me the wings to fly and grow in the ocean of knowledge. I will repay you with my achievements, live up to your expectations, and be a useful person for the society. ​

Now I have the courage to face challenges, face setbacks, be a real person and a strong person in life. We may encounter some twists and turns, some difficulties and some hard times, but as long as we persevere and stay firm in our resolve, we will blossom all the way to the other side of success.”

Shan Dangdang (pseudonym) was given away as a young girl to a man with a mental illness to keep house for him and his father.

Her birth grandmother had died very early, her grandfather had been old, frail and sick, and her parents had abandoned them and her.

Since 2013 Dangdang was enrolled in the Guanlan Scholarship, and every year Pang Baoliang had to persuade the two older men to let her continue her studies.

In 2017, she finished the coursework in a vocational-technical high school also in preschool education in Shangluo.

March 2018, she started her internship in a local, non-public kindergarten.

Do you recognize her standing confident as a young teacher before kids also from nearby villages? She with our combined help has changed her destiny.