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Camps tackle plight of lonely children
By Wang Xiang |
June 29, 2010, Tuesday
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EDUCATION camps are being built in 3,409 southern Chinese villages for over one million children left at home by their migrant worker parents.
The education camps, named "Hope Families," started operation last April to help children who suffer psychologically by living apart from their family, Nanfang Daily reported today.
Nine-year-old Zhang Hujun was born in Guangzhou City, where her parents worked. She bid farewell to her father and mother last year and was sent to live with her grandparents in Meizhou because her parents couldn't afford school fees in Guangzhou, the report said.
Her grandparents, both in their 80s, speak a dialect Zhang can't understand, and the report said she has abandoned drawing her favorite cartoons and burnt all her work "because nobody wanted to see them."
Lack of love and care could seriously twist a child's personality, said psychological expert He Rihui.
Though Guangdong Province has long been China's No.1 economic powerhouse in terms of gross domestic product, it is polarized by a huge income gap. More than half of the working population was working outside their hometowns, the report said.
Li Yawen, the headmaster of a primary school in Guangqiao Township, said over one-third of his students were either alone at home or live with their grandparents.
Most of them were more withdrawn than their peers. They got worse grades, showed worse manners, and hated to communicate with teachers, Li told the newspaper. If the teachers push them too far, they will simply quit. Sometimes they even beat up the teachers who lecture them, Li said.
Research by Guangzhou University showed that among Guangdong's prison inmates, more than 80 percent were migrant workers who had childhood experience of being left at home by their parents.
The education camps, named "Hope Families," started operation last April to help children who suffer psychologically by living apart from their family, Nanfang Daily reported today.
Nine-year-old Zhang Hujun was born in Guangzhou City, where her parents worked. She bid farewell to her father and mother last year and was sent to live with her grandparents in Meizhou because her parents couldn't afford school fees in Guangzhou, the report said.
Her grandparents, both in their 80s, speak a dialect Zhang can't understand, and the report said she has abandoned drawing her favorite cartoons and burnt all her work "because nobody wanted to see them."
Lack of love and care could seriously twist a child's personality, said psychological expert He Rihui.
Though Guangdong Province has long been China's No.1 economic powerhouse in terms of gross domestic product, it is polarized by a huge income gap. More than half of the working population was working outside their hometowns, the report said.
Li Yawen, the headmaster of a primary school in Guangqiao Township, said over one-third of his students were either alone at home or live with their grandparents.
Most of them were more withdrawn than their peers. They got worse grades, showed worse manners, and hated to communicate with teachers, Li told the newspaper. If the teachers push them too far, they will simply quit. Sometimes they even beat up the teachers who lecture them, Li said.
Research by Guangzhou University showed that among Guangdong's prison inmates, more than 80 percent were migrant workers who had childhood experience of being left at home by their parents.
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