Children's Photography in Poor Mountainous Areas

There are more than 600,000 left-behind children in rural areas of Shandong Province. Heze, Linyi, Weifang and other cities with more labor export, the proportion of "left-behind children" is large, and the number is increasing. Staying at home is a wandering away from parents. Their inner loneliness and social aggression make them homeless in their hometown. ...

20 1 1 A statistical data of Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League shows that there are more than 600,000 left-behind children in rural areas of Shandong Province. Heze, Linyi, Weifang and other cities with more labor export, the proportion of "left-behind children" is large, and the number is increasing.

Left-behind is a kind of wandering away from their parents. Their inner loneliness and social invasion make them wandering children in their hometown. The rising dropout rate and the increasing number of street children are also practical problems in the vast rural areas. Gancaoyu, located in Yimeng Mountain area, is such a village.

Childhood with old people and dogs

This is a group of wandering children in their hometown.

Xincun is a small village, located in Gancaoyu, a local town in Pingyi County. Although it has a beautiful name, it is poor and isolated. It is more than 20 miles from the nearest town. Similar to many schools around, there are only 100 students here, most of whom are left-behind children.

This is an authentic poor ravine, and the mountain people mainly grow hawthorn and apples. In order to make a living, more than half of the children's parents are working in other places, mainly selling candied haws, and their footprints are all over coastal cities such as Guangzhou and Shanghai. The management, fertilization and spraying of fruit trees are given to the elderly and children.

Classes begin at 8: 30 in winter, and at 6: 30 in the morning, many children are rushing to school. Grandparents get up early, either picking peach leaves on the mountain to feed the sheep for the winter or building a dam to collect firewood. The children were not at ease at home, so they shouted for breakfast and hurried to school. More is to give children two yuan to buy something to eat in the canteen.

After school, there are old people and dogs at the school gate. The young children followed the old man home. There are many dogs in the mountains, probably because they are used to going to school with their children. They will meet at the school gate after school and wait while playing. When the young master left the school gate, they greeted him, swooped up and down affectionately and followed him home.

165438+1October 22nd, the "Wheat Field Project" came to Xincun Complete Primary School, where a donation activity was held to donate a Xinhua dictionary to every child in Mingshan Village. The "Wheat Field Plan" was established in 2005, which is dedicated to improving the educational environment of children in poor mountainous areas.

The school held a special distribution ceremony. The children were very happy, got the dictionary, rubbed it repeatedly in their hands and wrote their names neatly.

Diary of a rural teacher

Wen Yang, a 28-year-old teacher, moved to this school to teach this year. 165438+1On October 28th, Wen Yang told our reporter several stories about left-behind children:

The handwriting written by student Liu Hai is too big. I asked him many times, but the results were few. Once he finished his homework in a hurry, Wen Yang criticized him a few words. The monitor whispered, "Teacher, don't criticize him, he doesn't even have a mother ..." Later, Wen Yang learned that the child's mother died when he was born, lived with his grandparents, and his father sold candied haws in Fuzhou.

One afternoon in late autumn, I followed Liu Hai to his house and met his grandmother at the door. She was holding a sheep. Grandma and I sat on the stone in front of the door and chatted. The old man picked persimmons on the mountain and didn't come back. If Liu Hai doesn't listen to the teacher, he will hit him. His father didn't go home for the Spring Festival last year and sent money every month ... When he left, he asked, "Teacher, you should teach Liu Hai well and teach him well ..."

This school is short of teachers. From grade one to grade six, there are six classes and seven teachers, mostly young people outside the mountain, and one person takes several classes. Children are used to teaching Chinese and maths. Interspersed with the last lesson of science and morality, the children are very happy. If you give them a lesson on physical education class, they will be more excited. I have Chinese classes in two grades, one class at a time, from morning till night. The children were bored and begged to go to physical education class, so I took them to run, do exercises and run several times. I went to the store to buy a ball and taught them to play football. Both boys and girls are brave and have a good time.

I brought a packet of orange candy for the children. They became very good at once. Some children put sugar directly into their mouths, and some children hold it in their hands and just bury themselves in their studies. I said there was more. Eat it, divide it, and then they reluctantly put the sugar in their mouths.

A mother with a child comes to deliver meals every day-this is a rare family. And there are vegetables and soup, which feed on rice and are placed in different compartments of the lunch box. The children are envious: his mother really loves him!

Older children can help grandparents feed the sheep and chickens after school. Once, a child was late, and his face was full of shame and sadness. I asked her, "Didn't your parents see you off?" She said, "My parents are in Shanghai." "Do you miss them?" She looked up at me, nodded and immediately said to me, "I called my mother, and my mother said she would be back in three to five days." There are still more than two months before the Spring Festival, and his parents probably won't come back soon.

It's only one step from staying behind to wandering.

Countless left-behind children stumbled into the street wandering team.

Under the impact of the tide of working, coupled with the reality that it is difficult for college graduates to find jobs at present, a new idea of "reading is useless" has arisen in rural areas. In addition, children are far away from their parents, influenced by various social emotions, and their weariness of learning grows. In mountainous areas such as Gancaoyu, the dropout rate of left-behind children is rising.

Yang Wen used to teach the sixth grade, when there were only seven students. "Only three students went to junior high school, and then no one went to school. They all went out to learn some skills, such as haircut and driving. " He knows a child who just graduated from primary school the year before last. This year, he has sold tickets on the rural passenger bus to the county seat, that is, he is thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing fancy clothes and dyeing long hair.

"Generally speaking, few people drop out of school. No matter how poor, there are only one or two children at home. Although parents can't take care of it in life, they still have to go to school. " Wen Yang said.

"The vast majority of street children are actually left-behind children." Photographer Zhang Chengxin discovered. He has been tracking and investigating the problem of street children since 2008. Since both parents work in other places, left-behind children live with grandparents most of the time. "These 10-year-old children are rebellious, and some grandparents can't manage it at all. If there is a contradiction with them, run out and wander privately. "

It can be said that it is only one step from staying behind to wandering.