About the education problem of children in re-mote areas
Within society, there is a growing gulf between rich and poor, and between urban and rural are-as. The gap between rich and poor is not only about money, it’s also about the educational re-sources available to children.
With the development of the society, more and more cities have begun to carry out multimedia and other diverse teaching methods. Urban children have rich courses and can learn knowledge through many ways. What these children say most is that they don’t want to go to school and don’t want to do their homework. But in remote mountainous areas, children are not guaranteed even with the most basic education. They have no school to attend and no book to read.
Saldaban township, located in the geographical center of Asia, is close to The Osaka City area, the famous tuyere in Xinjiang. It is always windy, with the maximum wind reaching level 11. One winter morning, a gale was blowing. The wind, with its yellow sand and snow, rattled the Win-dows of the schoolroom. The bell rang for a long time but there were no students in the class-room. Just as the teacher was about to go back to the dormitory, the door was suddenly opened and a group of shivering children burst in. They stood there tiredly, bent, with their heads bowed, as if they had something heavy on their backs. So the teacher stopped a student named Arnie and asked him what was going on. He opened his schoolbag and there were three big stones in it! “My grandmother is sick so she can’t send me to school,” Arnie said. “I’m so light that I’m afraid of being blown away by the wind. The teacher said to them with tears: “Aren’t you afraid of such a big wind ?” “We are not afraid of the wind, we are just afraid that there is no teacher to teach us!”
We have heard many stories like that, they are all in early youth, they are all the hope of their family, the future of the motherland. We should do our best to help them, to fight for a chance of education for them.
In recent years, more and more organizations give voice for children in the mountains, there are always kind people to lend a helping hand, they donate books and clothes for children in the mountains; More young people are willing to devote their youth to teaching in mountainous areas; The government is also making every ef-fort to alleviate poverty and solve the education problem of children in remote areas.
I believe that with our joint efforts, we can pro-vide them with more favorable conditions, so that all children may have the right to receive education.
Wenshan Wang
