Wangjiayu Orphanage School of Yingshan County

Early this week, we did not visit any village for our project since we were writing our reports on the three income generation projects we have visited last week. In addition, due to less team member now (only two member instead of three), we were also busy in preparing training/workshop material for next week. During this week, our interpreter is sick therefore I became an unofficial interpreter to facilitate Kevin and SC. Only one staff in SC can speak English fluently (the interpreter), the other two can speak only Chinese. I have been practicing my Chinese with them for the past two weeks, as such, I have been persuaded by SC and Kevin to become their unofficial interpreter.

With my new title, unofficial interpreter, on 11 July 2007, SC and PwC visited Wangjiayu Orphanage School. This is a dormitory school and/or house for disabled and abandoned children. This orphanage school is taking care of 214 children. More than 50% of them are disabled. The school has several class for disabled students. The school is only for elementary school. For junior level, the children have to go to regular school but will still stay in the dormitory.

SC has built several building for the School and also provides assistance on a regular basis. All the students live in the school. During our visit, we discusses on the situation of the school. The headmaster explained on the school situation including lack of salaries for the teacher and social workers, computer, and other basic needs since the government only provides a limited fund on monthly basis. The number of students and orphaned students are increasing drastically. Even, for the past two days they have received two new disabled abandoned children. The purpose of the orphanage school is to provide skills to the children so that in the future they can work and reintegration into society.


Notes on the pictures:
(1) Kevin, me and the twin
(2) Situation in a class room
(3) Kevin, Heyao, Wangjiayu (the headmaster) and me
(4) I gave candy to a child
(5) An abandoned baby is being taken care of
(6) Children is washing their own clothes
(7) The social worker, the child and me
(8) All the children and the teachers said goodbye to us by standing in the side of the access road
(9) The same as above