A little girl of selling vegetable
When I saw the photo yesterday that a girl was selling vegetable with a back-basket on her back, towering her little body, somehow I think of the girl who sold matches in the cold winter.
How could it happen ? I guess that she must have lost her parents, or her parents couldn’t let such a little girl do that. In addition, the girl was with her grandpa in the photo.
In recent years, I have seen many photos like this, showing little kids doing things that they are not supposed to do. From my own experience, I can tell what the photos tell us is true. There are still a lot of pathetic family in our country, though the economy is growing fast. Especially, in some families with only kids and old grandparents, or and invalid parents, their condition are very miserable. In my knowledge, I have never heard any official policy to protect those families so far. They are always in the shadow of life, no matter how many policies come on from the government.
while Government put them in the oblivious corner of life, fortunately, the society doesn’t forget them. Now more and more non-governmental organization are trying to do something for people in bad condition.
In our city, YouTaoJuShi is such a organizer who created ZhangJiaJie Union of Love with other two young fellows. JuShi is more than 60 years of age, his son has asked him to live with him in BeiJing for many times, but he didn’t go. He feels that it’s his destiny to do something for the children who are facing the threat of failing to attend school, because they have lost their parents, or their parents are very ill.
JuShi often visits faraway villages and country schools, gathering information of excellent students who are in awful economy condition. Perhaps, some people will wonder about such situation, and they would like to ask:”Government has freed students in elementary school and junior high school of all kinds of tuition. Why are there still so many kids who can’t afford to attend school ?”
Now, in the countryside, most schools are boarding schools. A student in junior high school needs to pay about 2000RMB to school for food. A lot of poor families can’t pay for that.
The donation of money from individual or firm is limited. Although JuShi wants to help all poor kids, what he can do is to choose the kids who are need help most.
Just like many other people, I wonder what Government has done for those poor kids ? I can’t come to the answer after racking my mind. Perhaps we should forgive the government just like they forgive themselves with some absurd unconvincing excuses. After all, people can’t do nothing but think the government will do better in the future.
Since Government stand aside on something, we need more ‘YouTaoJuShi’ to organize efforts to help the poor children who aren’t able to attend school without help of money.
Oh, God. Please put the time run faster and let’s get into the future when Government can take some real actions to help poor chilren.