Guanlan scholarship foundation


What We Do



To provide scholarships every year that enable more daughters of one village to empower themselves through schooling, to break the cycle of absolute poverty and deprivation, to pursue their dreams in safety, become independent, confident women who will flourish and make a positive difference for their community, and raise the prospects of future generations.



The donation breakdown



All but 10% for administration and bank fees go directly to the Guanlan Sisters to spend on schooling expenses.
Your donations are tax deductible. We will send you the acknowledgement of receipt of donation that you can use in your tax filing.





Elementary Guanlan Sisters



US $75 toward her school fees in 6 years of tuition-free compulsory primary school.


US $30 as a nutrition supplement for select undocumented Guanlan Sisters.



Middle School Guanlan Sisters



US $75 towards the school and boarding fees in middle school.



Senior High School Guanlan Sisters



US $150 - $450 plus on a needs-based sliding scale toward private tuition in post-compulsory high school which may cost

$845 +.



Life in Anjinggou


Discover what life is like in Anjinggou for these families.


Award Process


Learn about the process of selecting a Guanlan Sister.



The Recipients


Find out how the recipients and how they are doing.



Life in Anjinggou




Families in the rural mountain village called Anjinggou tries try to make ends meet with farming and manual labor jobs.


Most of the parents of young school-age kids have left the village for work in nearby towns and cities, leaving their children behind to attend poor rural schools.


Since the mid-20-ten’s, most of the young school-age kids have also moved to towns, living with either a parent or relative, to attend rural migrant schools.


As “outsiders” [wailaide] without local residency, they are not entitled to any urban public services, or integrated, regular public schools.


They must return to their county of origin to attend post-compulsory high school and to take post-secondary entrance exams.



Award Process





The Guanlan Sisters are selected on the basis of family need by the local selection committee, consisting of scholarship alumni and our field manager, all of whom are from the village.


On receipt of the scholarship, the family head accepts in writing his daughter’s scholarship through high school graduation.
Before the end of each school year, each Guanlan Sister writes a letter to Dr. Seeberg about her progress and plans in school. Our local field manager sends a report, summary accounts, and photos of the Sisters and their families.


For the new and continuing Guanlan Sisters, Dr. Seeberg wires the collected amount to a designated account in a Xi’an, Shaanxi bank. Our field manager then takes the scholarship funds to the Guanlan Sisters’ schools in Shangluo Prefecture, where an award ceremony is held and the funds are given to the families.


The local field manager receives a minimal stipend for his generous and competent services. Only the wire transfer fee is deducted from the scholarship fund all other administrative costs are volunteered by the Seeberg family and friends.


We encourage you to establish a one-on-one relationship with one of the Guanlan Sisters to accompany her through her education.


We will help you exchange photos and translate letters. Simply let us know and we will match you up.



The Recipients





By the 2019 school year we have supported 130 Guanlan Sisters to pursue the education they need to transform their own and their families’ lives and contribute to progress for their whole community.



Meet Yu Yuan





Yu Yan (pseudonym) lives with her grandparents in their old mud and brick house on a remote mountain top in Anjinggou far away from her Junior Secondary school. Her family is extremely poor. She, her mother and grandmother have a mental disability. Ten years ago, her father took her disabled mother with him to the city to work, and they haven’t been heard from since, leaving his young daughter with her disabled grandparents to fend for themselves in the mountains.


Yu Yan dropped out of school for a few years to help her grandparents with the farmstead and housework.


Encouraged by Pang Jian and with receipt of the Scholarship, she went back to school and this past year entered Junior Secondary school in town.


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Meet Jing He





Jing He’s (pseudonym) family's lives in extreme poverty.


Her parents are illiterate small farmers. Her mother has a mental disability, her brother is blind, and her father does unskilled migrant labor which barely supports his family. In addition, her grandmother’s recent illness and surgery threw the family into severe medical debt.


They live in a small room in the “urban village” in Xi’an, where Jing now attends grade 3 in a primary school for migrant children.


Her smile shows her gratitude for the Scholarship. She studies very hard and her calligraphy is very neat and beautiful.


Her dream is to become a teacher in the future.


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a Guanlan Sister's Story-
Then and Now



Dang Yang's Story



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.”



A Guanlan Sister's Story-
Then and Now



Shan Dangdang's story



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.



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