"Seon is not blessed. Maybe there's something in that plan that I can't notice right now, and when I get back, I'll definitely enrich it even more. Director Lan, you and Director Qi also have to work hard to prepare for the project. ”

Mei Fang's personality is very casual, for him, it is already a great blessing to go to a high position at the deputy ministerial level, and there is no other pursuit at all. It's just that others don't see it that way, and you have a deputy minister with several years of seniority there, and whoever comes to power will feel like a threat.

Liu Feng originally thought that everything he had seen in Shan Yu Township was enough to shock, like Liu Xin was reluctant to wear shoes in early winter, but he didn't want to have a pair of dirty shoes when he went to school.

However, when he and Mei Fang and his party of more than a dozen people spent more than two months inspecting some provinces in the central and western regions, he learned that there were still too many poor people in China, struggling to survive, and the food and clothing line was already too luxurious for them.

He saw with his own eyes a twelve-year-old boy who went down to the coal kiln to carry coal, and every time he had to carry fifty or sixty pounds of coal to the account office to pay the account, in exchange for a pitiful two cents! The boy did not earn money to support his family, but to earn money for himself to go to school.

A fourteen-year-old girl, who should be in junior high school, goes up the mountain every day to pick medicinal herbs and send them to the purchasing station in exchange for eight cents, which is given to her father on the sickbed for most of them, and she leaves a dime every time, which is the tuition she has saved for her primary school!

A group of ragged dolls, squatting in the corners, each holding an enamel jar, looking at the words printed on the enamel jar, it is still something from the red era. Inside the enamel jar, there is a thin corn paste, and on the ground is a bowl of pickles pickled with wild vegetables.

In 1991 in China, even Yanjing City had not yet reached the point of taking wild vegetables as a new thing, and the wild vegetables here were mixed with salt, and those children ate strange sweetness. This is already the best effort of the private teacher with his meager salary.

A classroom that is definitely a dilapidated room, with thatched huts in the open air in many places, and traces of rain everywhere on the ground. There are gaps in the walls in many places, and the outside of the walls is supported by several wooden poles, and the inside of the "classroom" is also supported by pillar bases.

But it is in such an environment that the children listen carefully to the teacher's lectures, and they are still full of motivation to learn. The children in this classroom are uneven, ranging from first grade to sixth grade, and the teacher is a mother with a baby on her back.

The teacher in a mountain village is a 70-year-old Taoist who has been living here for more than ten years to help teach students here. The old man's original students have gone out of the mountains to see the wider world.

The old man was still guarding this "school" with only a dozen naughty children, and the old man smiled and said to these officials from Yanjing City: "Looking at the expectant eyes of these children, how can you bear to leave them behind?" ”

Yes, the most impressive thing for the group was the longing gaze of the children! A little girl stood pitifully outside the classroom, carrying a bundle of firewood on her back, which was to be sold at the market in exchange for the salt that the family desperately needed. The little girl could only look outside, watching her peers read inside.

In many areas, resources are scarce, the land is barren, and in some places even a person is only a few ration fields, and even if there is more harvest on such a small amount of land, it cannot meet the most basic living needs, let alone support children to go to school.

An eight- or nine-year-old boy, squatting in his yard and sobbing because he couldn't go to school, and his disabled father, a five-foot-tall man, squatted on the ground, crying louder than his own baby, he was sad for his child, and he felt guilty for his powerlessness!

An eight-year-old little girl, where are those little hands that are children's hands Wow! I'm afraid that the hands of fifty-year-olds in the city don't have so many folds, they are the hands of those who do farm work every day! It's such a pair of hands, holding books that I don't know how many people have passed, and studying seriously.

The girl didn't have a notebook, and in front of her was the discarded test papers that her father had picked up from the city, and the girl was in the blank space, carefully copying the homework assigned by the teacher. Looking at her meticulous appearance, the softest part of Liu Feng's heart was touched.

Huang Suxin, who has been following Liu Feng, burst into tears more than once, this scene is really shocking to Huang Suxin! In the past two months, Huang Suxin and her assistant have distributed millions of money and goods to students in poor areas, just to bring a little hope to these children!

The Hope Project is a public welfare undertaking initiated by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the China Youth Development Foundation in 1989 for the purpose of helping out-of-school children in poor areas. Its purpose is to subsidize out-of-school children in poor areas to return to school, build hope primary schools, and improve the conditions for running schools in rural areas.

Aiding the construction of Hope Primary School and subsidizing poor students are the two main public welfare projects implemented by the Hope Project, but there are still too few things that can be done at this time for the new Hope Project. After all, there are many poverty-stricken areas in China, with a huge base of poor people, how many poor students are there?

Liu Feng pays more attention to the construction of teachers in poor areas, such as those in poor areas where there are no graduates of formal normal schools who are willing to come here to teach. Not to mention the entertainment life that young people yearn for and like to see, many places do not even have electricity all year round.

Just like the original Shan Yu Township, the high wires are more decorations, and the farmers can't afford to pay the electricity bill and can't afford to use electricity! Most of the teachers here are just local farmers, and better ones are just junior high school Chinese level.

But it is these talents who support education in poor areas, but many of these teachers who are willing to take root in the countryside are really limited, after all, these local high school students and even junior high school graduates are not able to serve as teachers.

In these areas, private teachers are the lowest-income group, relying on meager government subsidies and more "tuition" for students! What kind of tuition is that? There was no cash, sweet potatoes, millet, corn, dry firewood - and dewy greens, apparently freshly plucked from the garden.

Liu Feng saw the loveliest people in these poor areas, these teachers who were willing to be poor but full of love, and he wrote a "Remote Training Plan for Teachers in Poor Areas" overnight. In this program, the Office of Distance and Continuing Education will take the lead and connect a number of teacher training colleges to form a strong training network.

This network will provide teachers in poor areas with free training opportunities so that they can enjoy sufficient educational resources. However, the work of the teacher training college is not free, and all the costs of this will be covered by the Gale Charity Fund.

This network will implement a combination of distance education and full-time learning, including telecommunications and correspondence teaching, as well as entrusted training from teacher training colleges. This will greatly improve the teaching level in poor areas, and at the same time, because the education is received by local private teachers, they will get the opportunity to become regular because they have obtained a formal teacher training diploma.

If Liu Feng's plan is implemented, those private teachers will have a head start and will devote themselves to teaching with greater enthusiasm.

When Mei Fang saw this plan, he sighed: "Liu Feng, your plan is too good, you have solved my heart disease of being unpleasant these days." ”

Mei Fang was originally a kind character, and the scenes he witnessed made this good old man wet his clothes with tears countless times. Now with Liu Feng's teacher poverty alleviation plan, how can Mei Fang not feel gratified?

After a two-month trek, everyone lost a lot of weight, but everyone's harvest was huge. Looking at Huang Suxin's emaciated appearance, Liu Feng cupped his lover's face in pain: "You are a little fool, why do you have to embark on this road?" In fact, you can just be a funder. ”

Huang Suxin raised her chin proudly: "Looking at those children, the happy expressions when they took the money, my heart was full of satisfaction, a sense of achievement, isn't this reason enough?" ”

Liu Feng hugged the woman tightly into his arms: "You are really a bodhisattva, in the future of Chinese charity, Sister Suxin will leave a strong stroke!" ”

The group spent the Spring Festival in the countryside, and specially gathered more than 30 private teachers in the vicinity to spend it with their families. It is impossible to gather more teachers, and this is already all the private teachers in the surrounding nearly 100 miles.

On February 4, 1992, the first day of the first month of the Year of the Monkey, Liu Feng funded and borrowed the canteen of the local county government to organize a rich meal. In fact, the things that can be purchased locally are really limited, even if they run out of more than 200 kilometers of mountain roads, the things they buy are not eye-catching to people from Yanjing City.

But in the eyes of private teachers, these are already state banquet-level delicacies! Mei Fang and Liu Feng toasted every private teacher, thanking them for insisting on education and doing their part to alleviate poverty for local education under such difficult circumstances.

The female teacher who was carrying the child on her back sighed: "Actually, the conditions are hard, it's nothing, it's not the same life?" But what makes me feel the most sad is that my level is so low, I have only finished the second year of junior high school, and it is really difficult to teach sixth grade students.

I'm not afraid to joke about it, but many times, I can't answer the questions asked by students. Every time I do this, I run out in shame and cry bitterly, hating myself for why I didn't learn more in the first place. ”

In fact, many of the teachers present have encountered this problem, and the children's curiosity is endless. But the education they have received is really limited, and in the face of a pair of eyes full of inquisitive desires, every teacher has a sense of guilt, that is, they seem to be misleading people's children!

However, for children in these impoverished areas, private teachers are the last hope. If it weren't for them standing up and taking on the responsibility of teaching and educating people, those outrageously simple local "schools" would have ceased to exist a long time ago.

Mei Fang said with a smile: "The Ministry of Education will soon carry out a plan for teachers, and this "Distance Training Program for Teachers in Poor Areas" is for private teachers like you who are willing to take root in rural areas.

This program will provide you with abundant teaching resources, improve your overall quality, and at the same time promote your professionalism and provide you with an opportunity to re-educate. With this opportunity, your education level will definitely be greatly improved, and there may never be a problem of students asking a teacher again. ”

"Really? Can we also be trained? ”

"Great! In the future, I won't be asked by the students, but it's a shame! ”

"Hey, this news is happier than eating a big meal like this for a year!" ――

Looking at these teachers, who were not so excited in the face of the sumptuous "feast", the officials of the Ministry of Education turned their faces one by one and secretly wiped the tears from the corners of their eyes. These people are the loveliest people! They bring a ray of sunshine to children in poor areas!

On February 28, the inspection team of the Ministry of Education finally returned to Yanjing City, from the remote and poor mountainous area to the rich and prosperous Yanjing City, and everyone felt like a dream.