2006-9 Recipients

Global NaXi Culture Conservation Society

Education Project Phase II: GNCCS Financial Assistance Program

Term: Year 2006-9 Location: LiJiang City No. 1 Senior High School

Year 2006-9 Grade 12 Recipients

A. Overview:

Class of Graduation Year 2009

751 students / 16 homerooms

Applications collected

43 students / 10 homerooms

Academic percentile

49%+ based on Entrance Exam

Recipients selected (1-12)

12 students / 7 homerooms

Alternates selected (*)

3 students / 3 homerooms

Male / Female ratio

5 Girls / 7 Boys (+3* Boys)

Ethnicity

6 Ethnic Nationalities

Name

Gender

Ethnicity

Homeroom

Nov 06 Ranking

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ShiChunHua

MuoSo

#252

#150

QiuGuoGuang

#252

#149

HeYiLu

NaXi

#252

#105

MuZhiHui

NaXi

#254

YangNiMa

PuMi

#254

#116

ZhuLinPing

Han

#255

#55

GuLinXue

LiSu

#256

#96

LiuZiTian

Han

#256

#127

HeXiaoJun

LiSu

#257

#194

QinXiuHua

MuoSo

#258

#252

HeLiQuan

PuMi

#258

#141

HeXiaoXu

LiSu

#259

#120

13*

ShiYanHua

LiSu

#261

#264

14*

YangXiaoLin

#252

#306

15*

QianGuiJun

Han

#255

#683

Global NaXi Culture Conservation Society

Education Project Phase II: GNCCS Financial Assistance Program

Term: Year 2006-9 Location: LiJiang City No. 1 Senior High School

Biography of 12 recipients

ShiChunHua

石春花

摩梭族

ChunHua is a MuSuo girl who lives with her grandmother, father,

mother, brother and sister in a poor farming village in the remote

mountainous region. The mother is in poor health. The father is

the only laborer. There was a mudslide during last rainy season.

The family lived on the small 2 mu (~1/3 ac) plot of land growing

corn and wheat. The long draught season this year wiped out the

harvest so the family had to buy food. The topsoil was lost and the

father has no fields to plant come next season. They bought food

and low blood pressure medicine for the mother by selling family

belongings. Her teenage siblings are working outside jobs to help

out.

Comments from teachers: hard working, high endurance, loves to

lend a hand, respectful of teachers, won 1^st price 3-G Model

Student for 3 years.

Specialties: sings and dances

QiuGuoGuang

邱国光

彝族

GuoGuang is the youngest child of a Yi family from a remote

mountain village where the soil is very poor and the yield is low.

The father was orphaned at age 12. The older brother, although

admitted into junior high school gave up his schooling in favor of

the younger brother who was showing great potentials in 5th grade,

turned to farming. The older sister who had no schooling got

married last year. Their aged parents now in poor health can no

longer struggle with the buffalo in the field. The brother became

the sole laborer and shoulders the burden of the family with the

meager income from growing corn and potatoes. The boy has the

support of and carries the hopes for the entire family. He does not

want to quit school and hopes to contribute to his family, clan, and

the nation someday.

Comments from teachers: hard working student who truly

deserves a helping hand.

Specialties: science subjects, painting and calligraphy, plays

the Yi Flute and sings.

HeYiLu

和毅陆

纳西族

YiLu is from a NaXi family who lives in a far remote farming

village with no roads. The 80-year old grandmother has been bed-

ridden since she fell and bumped her head seven years ago. The

mother, the care-giver for the old woman who could not see, hear

and hallucinates, struggles constantly with pollens (lima beans and

wheat) allergy in the fields. The family’s cash income, from the

father laboring on the small plot of land supplemented by raising

farm animals, goes largely for medicines for the two older women

and the school expenses for the girl and her younger brother.

Regardless of the amount of hard work in the fields, the father

could never afford the girls living and school expenses plus

transportation in the distant city this year and the years after.

Comments from the teachers: serious students, quiet in class,

mindful of elders

Specialties: enjoys music

MuZhiHui

木之慧

纳西族

ZhiHui is the younger of the two girls of a NaXi family that was

relocated to a remote farming village at a lower altitude when their

home village was zoned in favor of the new railway construction

site. The parents put up a simple farmhouse for the family. The

father is deaf in one ear. The mother has a chronic heart condition.

Years of draught had severely weakened their small plot of land

and the soil was washed away under the torrential rain this year.

Their crudely constructed dwelling almost collapsed. Without

repairing the house, the parents went into debt to support the girls’

education in hopes of giving them a chance to leave the farming

village. The older sister is enrolled in a vocational training school.

ZhiHui’s teacher covered the deficit in her tuition this semester.

She came to the school with insufficient beddings and warm

clothing because she did not want to take away what meager

belongings the parents still own. She also lost 50% of hearing in

one ear due to a childhood illness. She vows to repay people’s

kindness with her extraordinary good grades.

Comments from teachers: excellent student, ranks #9 of 751

students at midterm, financial situation gloomy, living condition

very serious

Specialty: English Language

YangNiMa

杨尼玛

普米族

NiMa is a PuMi whose traditional farming family is matrilineal.

He was born into the mother's family and never lived with the

father who passed away when he was two. Although he was

orphaned when his mother also passed away 5 years ago, he

was not homeless. He lives with his siblings in his family

compound headed by the oldest sister who has a daughter and a

son of her own. The daughter had no schooling while the son is in

4^th grade. NiMa’s two older brothers and another older sister work

at outside jobs to help support the family but still not able to

support NiMa in a city high school. He is a tall boy with a cheerful

personality, emotionally secure in the love and support from his

brothers and sisters.

Comments from teachers: respectful of his teachers, righteous,

high endurance, industrious, and frugal, 3-G Model Student awards

Specialties: PuMi flute player

ZhuLinPing

朱林萍

汉族

LinPing is from a Han farming family amongst the Yi and MoSuo

people in the cold remote NingLang County. The family depends

on the small 2 mu plot of land with a thin layer of weak top soil

and a few farm animals. The mother is in poor health and is

without adequate medical attention. The oldest brother is in the

army and has no income to support the family. The second brother

is enrolled in a teacher training school on a working grant. There is

no other cash income. They are in debt to the relatives and

neighbors by sending the daughter to school. LinPing has very fair

complexion and delicate features. She exerts a quiet self

confidence. She prepares her answers with sophisticated

thoughtfulness not at all like a girl from a poor village. She

wonders about the purpose of life in general and searches for the

values in her own life.

Comments from teachers: independent thinking, highly motivated,

respectful, good team spirit

Specialties: excels in art, several academic contests awards: math

& physics, awards on leadership, 3-G Model Student

GuLinXue

谷林学

栗僳族

LinXue is a LiSu from a far remote mountainous village consists

of 20 or so LiSu families. Parents are wheat and corn farmers on

weak soil with inadequate source of water. The poor yield is the

cause of the low cash income. His younger sister quit school after

6^th grade so that he could continue on. The villagers chipped in to

help with the boy’s junior high schooling. The father was

overjoyed with the son’s admission into his dream school but was

sick with worries because the villagers’ contributions is no longer

adequate. Without intervention, the boy faces the threat of leaving

school by next semester. LinXue hopes to graduate with the Gold

Star Class in 2009 carrying the hopes of his family and his village

in his heart.

Comments from teachers: sets high standards for himself, very

disciplined, good study habits, very prudent and hard working in

daily life, well respected by his classmates

Specialties: excels in history, geography and interested in

politics

LiuZiTian

刘自天

汉族

ZiTian is a Han from a mountain village in the wilderness. There

are six in the family. Both grandparents are over 80. Parents are

wheat and rice farmers who are at the mercy of the heaven. The

big hailstorm of 1999 wiped out the year’s crop so the family had

to buy food. The brother who was in junior high school at the time

quit school and turned to farming. This year the mother needed

surgery that put the family further back economically. The family

scraped together enough to send the boy to school this year and

had no means to manage the second semester school expenses

Comments from teachers: respectful of teachers and elders, high

team spirit, hard working, 3-G Model Student

Specialties: excels in sciences subjects and sports

HeXiaoJun

贺孝军

栗僳族

XiaoJun is a LiSu boy from an isolated region with no access by

roads, no exposure to the outside world, and is at the mercy of the

heavens. The boy and his father have no home of their own. They

made their temporary lodging at his uncle’s house. His parents

divorced when he was small and had not heard from his mother

since. The father has a 1^st grade education, with no skills, no

steady income and is in debt. Their only possessions are the 2

horses that his father worked with as a day laborer. One of the

horses got sick last autumn and could not work. XioaJun is the

first-ever student from that village to enter a senior high school.

He thirsts for a chance to change his predicament and get out of

poverty.

Comments from teachers: team spirit, serious student with good

study habits, good character, all around good pupil

Specialties: Sports

10.

QinXiuHua

秦秀花

摩梭族

XiuHua is a MuSuo girl in a family of seven including father,

mother, aunt, older sister, and 2 younger siblings. Their far remote

mountainous village is among the poorest in the region. Average

annual income per adult is less than RMB300. The parents, aunt

and older sister are farmers and have no source of cash income.

The mother’s heart condition and the aunt’s arthritic legs need

medicines. Last year they sold their animals to send the girl and

the two younger children to school. This year, with three kids in

high schools and nothing else to sell, the children may be forced to

drop out.

Comments from teachers: serious with studies, good character,

loves to help others

Specialties: Singing

11.

HeLiQuan

和丽泉

普米族

LiQuan is a PuMi from a small village near Stone Drum Township.

The father attended high school and worked as the ground support

for the air force as a youngster. The parents and the older brother

are corn farmers on less than 7-mu plot of land. The brother also

tends the few animals and gathers seasonal wild fungi from the

mountains to supplement the family income. Farming and

gathering incomes are not reliable. With long period of no cash

income the family went into debt in order to keep the boy in

school. Yet they vow to support him all the way through

university.

Comments from teachers: excellent characters, good manners,

serious with his studies

Specialties: excels in calligraphy and physics, enjoys football

12.

HeXiaoXu

贺小旭

栗僳族

XiaoXu is a LiSu from a far remote mountainous region with no

access by roads. The folks here have no direct source for cash

income. The family consists of grandfather, parents and two

school age sons. Parents are ordinary farmers working long hours

on a small plot of land. They barter their products for household

goods. The boys could not pay for books and always borrowed

form others. The mother’s severe stomach ulcer medicine put the

family further into debt this year. XiaoXu is the younger of the

two sons. He is very small for a fourteen year old. Although he is

the youngest and the tiniest among our Team of 12 students, he

seems able to hold his own place in line. He has bright inquisitive

eyes and a very pleasant smile. He hopes to become a journalist so

he could report to the world the true conditions in the poor

communities around LiJiang. He wants to help his village step out

of poverty someday.

Comments from teachers: high potential, independent thinker,

creative, innovative, hard working, 3-G Model Student awards

Specialties: (information not available)