June 16th news story
Orphans waiting for employed parents
By Xin Zeng
The Chengdu Children association will hire 8 couples take care of 48 earthquake orphans.
The recruitment will start on June 16th and last for 9 days.applicants should be healthy couples between 38 and 50, experienced in taking care of kids. Each couple will be occupied by 6 kid, with wage 3600 Yuan per month.
Zhujiang real-estate company donated eight 260m2 furnished houses in Chengdu suburb for new familys that will move in as soon as the parents being recruited.
9-year-old girl, Han Yan, from charity school, was quite excited:" A real house? I haven't been living in a house before." She kept asking her teacher," Can I move in tomorrow?"
Yuexiang Chen, 13, and her 9-year-old brother Fengxiang Chen, were brought up in a distant mountain village. They had no idea where Chengdu was and could not distinguish house from bungalow. " What is a house? Is it big or small?" When hearing it will be comfortable and cozy, they asked:" Shall we bring grandpa ?"
Headmaster of charity school, Yunlan Jiang 44, said:" Family pattern provides better lifestyle for the orphans, and let them regain family love."
No earthquake orphans in abducted children
By Xin Zeng
The police confirmed today(June, 23), there were no earthquake orphans in the abducted kids that rescued early this month.
On June 2nd , a conductor found a woman with several babies was behaving suspiciously and called the railway police. Two policemen in plain clothes shadowed the womam and one of them pretended to be a rich, childless business man with great interest in her kids. The abductor down her guard and said that she would give the 20-day-girl in her arms to him if he pay 6000 Yuan, and there were" even more choices" .
The policemen followed her to the shabby , where five abductors were caught and 49 kids were found. Since the shabby is not far from Yushu and the kids are not like Hans, the police suspected that they might be Yushu earthquake orphans kidnapped when the city was disorganized. Comments on Xinhua net and newspapers were filled with reproof.
" It's inhumane," said Society for the Protection of Children volunteer Li He,"How can they do this to earthquake orphans, they deserve even more care than normal kids."
After investigation, the authorities said that the kids were not earthquake orphans but kidnapped or bought across the border. However, it plea no mitigating circumstances.
Earthquake children celebrate Children's Day
By Xin Zeng
Disabled children from Sichuan earthquake got together for the first time to celebrate Children's day.
Every year in china people celebrate Children's Day on 1st June. It is a great day to Chinese kids. The common way of celebration is to send kids gifts and let them play games with family and friends.
The M 8.0 earthquake took place in Sichuan on May 12th 2008 caused more than 100000 death. Many children lost their parents and friends, and some became disabled. In order to provide these afflicted children with a happy festival, Sichuan education department mobilized the the society to raising money for a celebration with theatrical performances. The celebration was held by Wenchuan special education school in Sichuan Province, with the theme "Growing up in sunshine." "Relate with the care and support of all levels of governments and bound to care and help from all fields of the society, and this performance, is to show the chidren's gratefulness to the people that care about them and helped them." said the head master Yunlan Mao. "Compared to normal kids, it's much harder for the disabled children to finish even a simple sequence of dance movements," said the teacher Shengyu Xue, "they have to pay several times, a dozen times, perhaps scores of times, above the usual work to prepare for the show." The performance lasted for about an hour and closed with the song "I believe love "song by a 9-year-old girl, Chao Qin. " I never thought that I can put on such colorful costumes and sing on the stage" , said Chao, "I thought there would be no chances to have happy children's day since the earthquake happened. I am so happy today." Earthquake orphans spent children's day in Tianjin 14 earthquake orphans went to Tianjin to celebrate children's day with local kids. The celebration was taken in Tianjin children's palace, with a series of special activities, including a flag-raising ceremony and a reception in the morning, and a variety show and a fireworks display in the evening. Orphans and local kids will finish the huge painting by name " the future of Yushu" together, which will be present as a gift to Yushu exhibition centre. Meanwhile, Tianjin Youth League committee will help the orphans to be adopted by local families. Before that , the youth league committee raised 500000 Yuan ( about 50000 pounds) to support the orphans for their further education. According to the present plan, the orphans will be supported until 18. Said Guo Zhang, 34, the committee mumber. 30 Wenchuan earthquake orphans come to Beijing 30 orphans, who lost their parents in Wenchuan earthquake happened in 2008, will have Beijing trips as their presents for Children's day. 30 Kids, from 8 to 17, just had their first airplane trip and have arrived at the capital. The trip will be a two-day tour, with first day visiting Tiananmen square, Forbidden city and the National Stadium where the 2008 OLYMPIC games was held, then followed by coming to the most famous Chinese University- Tsinghua Beijing University, in the second day. On Children's day, 30 local pupils met the earthquake orphans in Xinhua Square to celebrate the festival together. Meanwhile, the kids gave gifts to each other and made friends. Hanlu Li, 12, said,"This is the most special Children's day, I am so happy to meet Lahezhuoma, she is my first Tibetan friend. We will write to each other when she get back home. I hope one day I will come to Sichuan to see her as well." College entrance exam after earthquake The Qinghai government promised to make every effort to ensure the smoothness of college entrance exam inYushu. Qinghai province, which experienced a quake measuring 7.1 on Apr.14th 2010, lost 2698 residents, including 199 students. College entrance exam, which is regard to be a vital examination for Chinese students, is given once every year on June 7 and 8. " During the college entrance exam, we will make every effort to provide the best service to the examinee here. We will use special transportation policy to implement the system of "Green Passage" for students, to make sure that they will be able to arrive at venues on time." Said the Dean of Admissions, Saiba, 42. Vice governor of Qinghai, Yunlong Gao, 51, said that the government will provide students who has difficulties caused by the disaster with preferential assistance, treatment and care. The exam will be held in Yushu Vocational and Technical School and last for two days, during that time, all the Mammoth machines will not be allowed to work closer to exam rooms, and all the nearby areas will be quiet zones. The 36 exam rooms are newly built temporary frame classrooms, each has one wall clock and four energy-efficient light bulbs, and with a slogan " more power, Yushu" on the wall. "Though just suffered from a terrible disaster, we still have to pay constant attention to the preparation work, and ensure that students in Yushu can go though the exam as examinees in other province. College entrance exam is so important to their further development, we will try provide them with the best that we can offer. " Said Saiba. According to Saiba, none of the Yushu examinees will miss the exam except one who was fatally injured during the disaster. Headmaster of Yushu Vocational and Technical School , Gerile, 55, said, "in order to Optimize Examination environment, Yushu education department spent a lot on building the frame exam rooms and oncerned detailly of the design." Meanwhile, 10 trained medical workers have been sent to Yushu Vocational and Technical School to take care of the examinees physically and mentally. Besides, the local army will provide food and accommodation for the students. They have been a part of the rescue since the earthquake happened. with their help, temporary classrooms were built just 9 days after the earthquake and the Senior 3 student at high schools in Yushu came back to school to prepare for their significant exam. Gennailamao, 18, the youngest senior 3 student in Yushu ethnic high school, monitor of her class, said, We should steel ourselves against the disaster and keep pursue our future. Her dream is to come to a leading university and study psychology. One of the Tibetan examinee, Renzengqiucuo, 19, drew an eagle, which is a Tibetan symbol of power and happiness, to the army. "
I deeply appreciate their kind help," said Renzenqiucuo, " The disaster could not harm my confidence for my future. I will strive for good grades in the coming exam, that was the only way I could do a little justice to the PLA men who helped me that much."
June 30th Survived girl addict to swing
A 7-year-old girl, survived unhurt from Yushu earthquake, can't help playing swing and was taken to hospital in Beijing on Jun 29th.
Yuebai Li, Grade 1 Pupil in Qinghai Experimental Primary School, saw the Yushu earthquake happened on Apr. 14th in Qinghai, China. She was having class when the ground began shaking. She moved to playground safely and none of her familiar people suffered injuries.
She moved to Beijing with her parents after the disaster. Her mother, Fang Qi, 38, found Yuebai became more and more quite and doesn' t share her thoughts.
"At the beginning we did not pay much attention." said Fang, " But last week, I took her to a park, she kept playing the swing and did not want to go home. From that day on, every day she asks me to let her playing swing. "
According to He Li, 30, doctor in Children's hospital, Yuebai's problem was rare. "Generally, children in the shadows of earthquake would be afraid of heights."
However, Bei Mo, 22, volunteer in Chinese Red Cross, said that she had heard of a similar thing happened to an 8-year-old girl who experienced Sichuan earthquake, but had no idea her present situation.