Longwan Caring Home is located in Dahua County, which was listed as one of the poorest counties in Guangxi Province. Longwan Caring Home is a big family consisting of orphans, single parents, and abandoned children. The normal expense of the Home is sustained by plantation, breeding, and small business.
 
Teaching Diary 

It was raining last night, and when I woke up I saw kids already sweeping water on the playground and aisles. After eating breakfast and taking a group photo, the children of Jia Yuan quickly and neatly cleaned the school/home in order to welcome the visitors.

The days in Jia Yuan seemed to repeat.  Meng Meng and Shan Shan would definitely cry; the older boys would playfully be loquacious; the kids would quarrel and fight, but would reconcile at the end of the day. However, every day is a new day. Each of the kids has lots of talents and virtues waiting to be explored, but tomorrow we will have to say goodbye. 

Longwan Caring Home is located in Dahua County, which was listed as one of the poorest counties in Guangxi Province. Longwan Caring Home is a big family consisting of orphans, single parents, and abandoned children. The normal living costs of the Home are covered by the plantation, breeding, and small business.
 
Our partners donated about 100 picture books to Longwan. We are lucky to have a shelf with 100 books for our children! Each night, we have a story reading time for our children. Tonight we are going to read "No, David!" The story is about a mother and her son David. The children like the story very much. They like to draw on the wall as much as David did. 

One of the charming aspects of picture books is their capacity to transform. During the reading, we were often interrupted by the children’s applause and cheers. The story means more though with the participation. We try to bring in some creative dialogue instead of only reading stories. 

Longwan Caring Home is located in Dahua County, which was listed as one of the poorest counties in Guangxi Province. Longwan Caring Home is a big family consisting of orphans, single parents, and abandoned children. The normal expenses of the Home are covered by plantations, breeding, and small businesses.

People ask us why we established Longwan Kindergarten. We wanted to give preschool children from remote areas an environment that they can learn and grow up in. We believe we will continue to improve in our professionalism and standards. The children need not only to play, but also to learn. We integrated both games and education in a day’s activities.

Longwan Caring Home is located in Dahua County, which was listed as one of the poorest counties in Guangxi Province. Longwan Caring Home is a big family consisting of orphans, single parents, and abandoned children. The normal expense of the Home is sustained by plantation, breeding, and small business.
 
We have been carrying out reading activity long ago. Picture books have been included in daily curriculum of preschool. The children could also read books during daytime. Apart from half hour reading time before bed time, we arranged video time on each Friday and morning outside reading on Saturday. We also have themed performance and night of village stories. We want to enrich the extra-curriculum time of the children living in Longwan. 

Bedtime story became routine. We use half hour to read picture books to the children which would brought them to a sweet dream.

Our children live in Longwan 24 hours a day, which is a good opportunity for us to carry out night of village stories. The children in primary school also love picture books. Some elder children learned to read stories to the younger ones. Lan Yunfeng and Lu Sansan are the youngest children in Longwan. They had been attracted deeply by the pictures of the book. Teacher Peach had been trained to read books. Teach Peach could also read stories vividly. The children love her.

Teacher Peach shared stories in pictures books with the teachers from other kindergartens. She suggested they could use the stories to the daily life of the children. The teacher of Longwan repeated the same things day by day. Now the children could plan and organize their own performances. 

Original article written by Ban Aihua, translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang

Longwan Caring Home is located in Dahua County, which was listed as one of the poorest counties in Guangxi Province. Longwan Caring Home is a big family consisting of orphans, single parents, and abandoned children. The normal expense of the Home is sustained by plantation, breeding, and small business.
 
Going into June, the South is already getting very hot. In June, the South also happens to have lots of rain and floods. Dahua County experienced the worst rainstorm in a hundred years while the Longwan Loving Home was hit by disease. Both children and adults could not resist the germs that took over their bodies. Even though we encountered unforeseeable difficulties, our hearts are still together, and Home still received support and help.
 
In June, we attended the parent meetings for Home’s first to sixth graders enrolled in Longma Elementary School. These are the Home’s sixth graders. On July 2nd, they will be taking the Sixth Grade Exit Exam. We hope they will do well!
  
The 2015 (fourth annual) “Outdoor Cleaning Day” is a large-scale outdoor nonprofit environmental protection event that will start simultaneously in forty-six prefectures located in sixteen provinces, cities, and territories. Our Longwan Loving Home has participated in “Outdoor Cleaning Day” for three years in a row. From cleaning our small home, we then swept every little road in our village. During each year’s event, the children were always excited and worked hard with their cleaning tools.
  
The goal of the Outdoor Cleaning Day is to call every to pick up their “lost civilization” and remind people about having a green, environmentally friendly mindset and a healthy lifestyle through having volunteers clean the public spaces, a simple, easy to complete environmental protection activity. Through the event, more citizens will understand and care about the environment and protect it together with the ultimate goal of reaching a state of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.

Longwan Caring Home is located in Dahua County, which was listed as one of the poorest counties in Guangxi Province. Longwan Caring Home is a big family consisting of orphans, single parents, and abandoned children. The normal expense of the Home is sustained by plantation, breeding, and small business.

Let’s first talk about the children. I teach preschool. At first, I felt slightly frustrated because, whether I coo or punish, the kids would not sit quietly. They climb on stools and desks, run around inside and outside of the classroom, and create a huge disturbance. After spending more days with them, however, I got used to this behavior. The children are very creative: making beautiful works out of paint, clay, and paper. Some boys have no hesitation swinging their fists at other children, and when I turn my head to check on them a few minutes later, they are already on top of the basketball net. When I look at their drawings, however, I see cute animals and bright colors. Discoveries like these always surprise me and make me stare in awe. I silently pray that, in their growing up, they will never lose this ability to express their true feelings because if they do, the grown-up world will be extremely boring.
 
There are also many older children (4th to 6th grade) in the Home who are so considerate and obedient that they make our hearts ache. Many of them are orphans or have single parents. I don’t know if I can understand even a fraction of what they have been through. All I can do is try to suppress the hurtful pity in my eyes when I look at them. All I want is to get along well with them. They are very skilled, able to do all kinds of chores, take care of their little sisters and brothers, dance, play music, sign language, and play many different sports. They gave me my first lesson in ballroom dancing.

ongwan Caring Home is located in Dahua County, which was listed as one of the poorest counties in Guangxi Province. Longwan Caring Home is a big family consisting of orphans, single parents, and abandoned children. The normal expense of the Home is sustained by plantation, breeding, and small business.
 
Lu Fengchao was a shy girl when she came to Longwan Home. She did not speak. She even messed her pants with her urine and excrement. After living in Longwan for a semester, she became cheerful. Luo Shengshi is a naughty boy. He likes hanging around Longwan and touch things. He has 2 elder brothers and 2 younger brothers. They live and study in Longwan. Luo Shenghua is Luo Shengshi’s little brother. His nickname is A Fu. He would correct his teacher that his name is Luo Fu instead of Luo Shenghua. He always follow his brothers. Lu Shanshan is the youngest child. She is only 2 and cannot speak. She would cry if she was unhappy. Ban Lina has a princess name, but she behaved as a boy. She is independent and stubborn.

By autumn semester of 2015, Longwan has had 137 students. 63 (34 are boys and 29 are girls) of them are in kindergarten. 16 of them are from single parent family and 5 are orphans.

Keeping accompany during kindergarten period is important. To promote the base education in rural areas and make up the blank for childhood education, we built Long Wan Kindergarten. The kindergarten has registered as a legal kindergarten in Dahua county in 2012.

Out kindergarten is boarding management model. The children live in Longwan Kindergarten. Some of children can reunion with their families during summer or winter holidays. Some of them stay in Longwan all year around. Our staff have to act as different roles. They do not have strict on or off work, nor work days or holidays.
  
Education and health care are also the problems that Loangwan has to face.

Original article written by Aihua Ban, translated by Maggie Li, and edited by Yanyan Zhang

Longwan Caring Home is located in Dahua County, which was listed as one of the poorest counties in Guangxi Province. Longwan Caring Home is a big family consisting of orphans, single parents, and abandoned children. The normal expense of the Home is sustained by plantation, breeding, and small business.
 
On Nov 23, 2015, 5 persons from Longwan visited Banlan Primary School of Dahua county. They would send warm bags supported by One Foundation to the students. With 4 hours bus, we arrived Banlan village. The school is located among hills. The principle greeted us at the gate of the school.

At noon, the students were taking snap and we saw all things were put neatly in the dorms. Boys were sleeping on the bed without covering quilts, for it was not cold.

Principle introduced the school to us. It is a boarding village school. Most of the students are Yao ethnic minority. 90% of the student stay in the school from Monday to Friday. Teacher not only have classed, but take care of students’ daily life. The conditions of the school became better in recent years. The students increased to 886 from 400. In 2015, the number reached 925. Apart from local students, children from other villages attend school here.

We brought 27 warm bags this time and some stationeries from Longwan. We hope the students like them. At 2:00 pm, the students got up and we did communications to them. They did not avoid cam. They had different expressions. When I reviewed the photos when I came back, I hope they could open a window for them one day in the future thought they live in the remote mountains. About 100 children living in poverty in Banlan Primary School are supporting target by One Foundation for warm bags.

There are 2 tooth brushes in the bag. Teacher Qi asked why there are 2 tooth brushes. The children did not know why. Qi said we should change tooth brush every 3 months. We should brush our teeth every day and protect our teeth. Each of the articles in the bag made the students could not put them down. 

Original Article Written by Banai Hua, translated by Maggie Li, edited by Yanyan Zhang