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In above photograph, a nine-year-old girl writes an open letter to her parents on the
sidewalk in Beijing’s Qianmen District. She says she wants to return home, but
cannot until her family has earned enough money. Every year, an estimated three
million children leave their homes for the cities, sometimes on their own, but usually
accompanying parents. City governments do not guarantee education to children
living outside their official place of residence. A few pay extra fees to enroll in public
schools, but most attending classes go to special “migrant schools,” usually staffed
and run entirely by volunteers.
sidewalk in Beijing’s Qianmen District. She says she wants to return home, but
cannot until her family has earned enough money. Every year, an estimated three
million children leave their homes for the cities, sometimes on their own, but usually
accompanying parents. City governments do not guarantee education to children
living outside their official place of residence. A few pay extra fees to enroll in public
schools, but most attending classes go to special “migrant schools,” usually staffed
and run entirely by volunteers.
In a number of villages where most healthy young men and women leave to work in
the cities, the young, the old, and unwell constitute the majority of those left behind.
Xiuting, whose one desire (like most rural Chinese children) is to get an education
beyond high school, holds her younger sister in front of a sign encouraging
youngsters to volunteer for military service in her home village of Likang, Jiangxi
Province. Most infantry recruits come from impoverished rural areas and see the
military as both a way to get out and a way to send money back to their homes in
order to support their families.
the cities, the young, the old, and unwell constitute the majority of those left behind.
Xiuting, whose one desire (like most rural Chinese children) is to get an education
beyond high school, holds her younger sister in front of a sign encouraging
youngsters to volunteer for military service in her home village of Likang, Jiangxi
Province. Most infantry recruits come from impoverished rural areas and see the
military as both a way to get out and a way to send money back to their homes in
order to support their families.
Ye Hongyan has already spent more than five years in Beijing, working on a road
crew with a group of friends from Fugou County, Henan Province. The group lives
together, travels together and finds work together. This provides them with some
measure of security and comfort—security, because they are less likely to be
cheated by unscrupulous overseers and managers, and comfort because they can
cook local foods, play local games, and discuss news from home in their local
dialect, which is often unintelligible to most speakers of Mandarin Chinese, the
official dialect of China.
crew with a group of friends from Fugou County, Henan Province. The group lives
together, travels together and finds work together. This provides them with some
measure of security and comfort—security, because they are less likely to be
cheated by unscrupulous overseers and managers, and comfort because they can
cook local foods, play local games, and discuss news from home in their local
dialect, which is often unintelligible to most speakers of Mandarin Chinese, the
official dialect of China.
Mrs. Jiang takes a break from lunch to show off the kitchen area of her home, which
she and her husband have converted into a bed and breakfast in Wuyuan Township,
Jiangxi Province. In her hand she displays a large bowl of wholesome home cooking.
Such establishments are one way for farmers to supplement their incomes and avoid
seeking work in the cities…provided, of course, that there are enough visitors
needing a place to stay. TO BE CONTINUED .....
she and her husband have converted into a bed and breakfast in Wuyuan Township,
Jiangxi Province. In her hand she displays a large bowl of wholesome home cooking.
Such establishments are one way for farmers to supplement their incomes and avoid
seeking work in the cities…provided, of course, that there are enough visitors
needing a place to stay. TO BE CONTINUED .....
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