Today we went to distribute Bo Ai (Boundless Love) scholarship money to qualified students attending the No. 2 High School in Xinyang, Henan, China. The students are “stay behind” children, a government designation, to indicate children who have one or both parents working in other cities. These children tend to be poor with little resources available to them. No. 2 High School is also a boarding school for about 9000… Read More
Category: Mei Wen, Uncategorized Tags: China, Education, Henan, Rural Poor, Scholarships, Social Enterprise, Social Work, Students
As educators working with Mei Wen (a registered, Chinese social enterprise in Henan, People’s Republic of China), my wife and I were excited to be introduced to the principal and administrators of the Xinyang School of Aviation Services and Vo-tech High School in the Pingqiao District, Henan. The Pingqiao Vo-tech school is the approximate equivalent of a U.S. Title 1 School, wherein, the school receives government funding to serve the at-risk child from… Read More
Category: Culture, Field Notes, Uncategorized Tags: Children at Risk, China, Education, Poverty, Rural Poor, Title 1 Schools
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