Lin Zihong

Lin Zihong

Dazu primary school in Lugu Lake, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, is a group of passionate post-80s and post-90s generation, a group of far-reaching supporting teachers, a team composed of people from different regions, and a soul who is not far away after death. Different lives choose the same life, but different ideals share the same hope. They, the teachers' team of Dazu primary school in Lugu Lake, have changed the fate of the children in the deep mountains with enthusiasm and hard work. With the power of knowledge, they have led the local villagers to become rich and opened a window between the ethnic minorities in the mountains and the outside world.

Background of supporting education

1. Luguhu Dazu primary school is the only village primary school in Muba village, Luguhu Town, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. It has seven grades and 120 students, mainly Yi, Naxi and Naxi Mosuo. There are 18 teachers, 8 local teachers and 11 supporting teachers from all over the country. President Lin Zihong is from Taiwan Province. All the teachers are born in the 1980s and 1990s.

2. Speaking of luzu Lake Dazu primary school, there is a tortuous history. Dazu primary school was originally a village primary school in mukui village. In 2000, because it was in disrepair and had no teachers, it was forced to close down. In a village of more than 800 people, more than 100 school-age children have to walk three hours a day to the town's Central Primary School. Most of the villagers choose to let their children drop out of school and work in the farm.

3. In 2004, Li Nanyang, a Taiwanese, and his friend you Jingfen came to Lugu Lake for a tour. Seeing that many of the children here did not go to school, they made a decision to quit their jobs in Taiwan and raise hundreds of thousands of funds to rebuild Lugu Lake primary school together with the whole village. Li Nanyang was the principal of the school.

4. On the one hand, they gathered teachers in the local area, and on the other hand, they gathered volunteers to teach in Beijing, Shanghai and other big cities. Although the school was difficult, it gradually developed.

5. Because he has lived in high altitude area for a long time, in 2007, principal Li Nanyang died of lung cancer. What worries him most is the children in the school. Instead of returning the ashes to Taiwan for burial, he buried them next to the primary school. Teacher you Jingfen is not in good health either. In order to keep the school going, her son Lin Zihong, who worked in earthwork in Taiwan, quit her high paying job and came here. She took up the responsibility and became the second principal of Dazu primary school in Lugu Lake.

Main experience

6. Lin Zihong, born in 1983, is more stable than his peers. As Lugu Lake is a private love primary school, Lin Zihong has to go to Shanghai and other places every year to raise funds to maintain the operation of the school. Driven by him, more and more young people choose to come here to teach. Today, there are 18 teachers in the school. Every use of all the money raised by the school will be publicized on the Internet.

7. With the arrival of these young teachers, great changes have taken place in the school. The teachers who graduated from the Academy of fine arts taught the children how to draw. According to the different specialties of each child, they stimulated their creative ability and interest. The English teachers brought foreign language and culture to these Mosuo children, so that they could see the broader world outside the mountain. Many of these children can sing English songs fluently and have an understanding of cultures all over the world. Lin Hongzi has made great efforts to build a computer-based classroom for children and to make use of the Internet to learn more wonderful things.

8. In fact, when I first came here, not every teacher could fully adapt. There are frequent blackouts and difficult conditions here. But none of these young people left. A female teacher also said half jokingly on her micro blog: Master rat, you come to my room every night to make trouble. Are you working overtime? Great Xia, I'm looking for a clever way to make rats. It can be imagined that a girl growing up in a big city, in such an environment to stick to a few years, need how enthusiasm and strength.

9. Seeing that there were no teachers in other villages, the team took advantage of the rest time to walk the mountain road for several hours to train the local teachers in the primary schools of neighboring villages and bring the knowledge to the local teachers and children.

10. In Dazu primary school, there is a special student. He is 19 years old, but he is still in the first grade. He was one of the children Lin Zihong and his teachers found when they visited the family in the village. He was suffering from severe albinism and could not see. They raised money for the operation and helped the child to go to Shanghai for the operation, so that he could see the light again. The child was studying in school. Although old, they still hope to change his fate with knowledge.

11. As a private love primary school, Dazu primary school has been established for 8 years, and Dazu public welfare fund has been set up. They sent children in need of help online through microblog and other means to seek help. In 2011 alone, they funded more than 600 children,. However, Lin Zihong found that most of the children who dropped out of school were poor at home, and the problem could not be fundamentally solved by relying on external aid alone. The local people have been farming for a long time, and most of them grow potatoes, corn and other crops for self-sufficiency. Lin Zihong made a parcel of land in the village, taught the local people to grow some cash crops to increase their income, bought chicks and distributed them to the villagers for breeding, raised them and then helped them to sell them outside the mountain. With the increase of villagers' income, they will naturally be able to send their children to school. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime..

12. A few years later, the team seems to have become a part of the village. The children can't afford to go to school. They are in charge of the difficulties in the villagers' families. They are also in charge of the economic development of the village. As for the story of Dazu primary school, the local education bureau was also very moved and helped them solve the problem of their children's further education. Now, six children have entered the town's middle school. With the spread of the story of Dazu primary school, more and more people join the teaching team, and even foreigners have come here to teach. As for supporting education, they have a strict standard: if they want to support education, they should be here for at least one year. In the village, Lin Zihong's saying is widely spread: "if we don't come again, there is only one reason, that is, you don't need it."

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