Qianjiang Evening News·Hours News Reporter Duan Luojun/Text Liang Zhen/Photo Correspondent Ma Ji
Today (November 1), the "Ten Years of Richness in the Road - Shengao Help Wanfu Students' Talent Photography Exhibition" was held in Shengao Science and Technology Innovation Park.
This is a special photography exhibition, the protagonists are students from Wanfu Township, Qingtian County, Zhejiang Province. Photographer Zhejiang Daily reporter Liang Zhen spent ten years recording their past appearance: lonely mountain villages, dilapidated mud houses, simple campuses, some students squeezed into duck sheds with their parents, and some used benches as desks...
Ten years have recorded the growth of students and witnessed the blooming of their dreams: some graduated from college and came to Hangzhou to work, some went out of the mountain village to settle down in the city, and some studied in high school in their hometown. The shirtless houses in the mountain village in the past have been painted with exterior walls, and the bumpy mountain roads have become flat and smooth, and the world in the camera is becoming more and more vivid.
Ten years of witnessing the blooming of dreams
Photography exhibition, Zhou Feiyu met familiar faces one by one.
"Uncle Zheng, do you still remember me? I was standing by your side at that time." Zhou Feiyu pointed to a large group photo behind Zheng Mingzhi, founding president of the Saint-Ao Charity Foundation. The little girl in yellow clothes standing beside him was Zhou Feiyu. Zheng Mingzhi couldn't help but sigh at this wonderful fate.
"Do you know who she is? She was so tall ten years ago, and now she is working in Hangzhou..." Zheng Mingzhi happily introduced everyone.
Zheng Mingzhi and Zhou Feiyu
Zhou Feiyu, born in Zheyang Village, Wanfu Township, Qingtian County, has had his biggest dream since childhood to walk out of the mountains and work and live in this beautiful city in Hangzhou.
Now, Zhou Feiyu's dream has finally come true. This year she officially became a nurse at Run Run Shaw Hospital .
"I will never forget ten years ago, uncles and aunts came to Wanfu Township School to visit us. Your arrival has made the dim life burst into bright light again, and let the light of hope illuminate our future." Zhou Feiyu specially rushed to the photography exhibition site, "I am a very lucky member bathed in warm happiness."
On September 7, 2012, Zhou Feiyu did his homework at home in Zheyang Village, Wanfu Township, Qingtian.
On August 1, 2022, Zhou Feiyu graduated from Wenzhou Medical University and became a nurse at Run Run Shaw Hospital affiliated to Zhejiang University School of Medicine.
The uncle and aunt mentioned by Zhou Feiyu are the assistance personnel of Zhejiang Daily News Group (hereinafter referred to as " Zhejiang Daily News Group ") and the Shengao Charity Foundation.
According to the unified arrangement of Zhejiang Province, from 2000 to 2018, Zhejiang Daily Group provided counterpart assistance to Wanfu Township - Qingtian County , an remote township, an eight or nine hours drive from Hangzhou. Since the pairing, Zhejiang Daily Group has provided more than 28 million yuan in poverty alleviation materials to Wanfu Township, and has sent 6 rural instructors to serve in Wanfu Township. Liang Zhen, deputy director of Zhejiang Daily's All-Media Video Department, is one of them.
In September 2012, Liang Zhen took his camera to several villages in Wanfu Township and photographed more than 50 students doing homework at home in succession. "A girl with big eyes' desire for knowledge touched me at that time. At that time, I was thinking about doing something for them," said Liang Zhen.
Ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and children in the mountain village have grown into young teenagers. In July this year, Liang Zhen once again visited the students who were helped ten years ago and the villagers who were photographed. After three months, he completed the latest set of shooting and also created this special photography exhibition.
On September 7, 2012, Liu Bingbing did her homework at home in Zheyang Village, Wanfu Township.
On September 16, 2022, at Hengdian Film and Television College in Dongyang, Jinhua, Liu Bingbing participated in military training before the start of school.
Donate funds to study for ten years of Wanfu students
"Take me flying, give me hope, I finally see all my dreams bloom..." Ten years ago, the children's singing echoed at Wanfu Township Central School.In order to let the dream run and let the children in Wanfu Township have the power to fly out of the mountains, on November 2, 2012, under the command of Zhejiang Daily Group, Zhejiang Shengao Charity Foundation donated 1 million yuan to Wanfu Township for assistance to poor students in Wanfu School and teacher training. With the help of these caring people, the students in Wanfu Township wore uniforms for the first time, took a hot bath in the school for the first time, and took an animation class for the first time... Over the past 10 years, this fund has been used strictly in accordance with the agreement for education, and a total of about 3,000 people have benefited, helping Wanfu Township to produce more than 100 college and technical school students.
From Liang Zhen’s lens, you can see that the dreams of children in Wanfu Township are blooming. Some graduated from college and came to work in Hangzhou, some went out of the mountain village to settle their homes in the city, and some studied in high schools in their hometown... Now, with the help and support of the outside world, not only students, but also young teachers in Wanfu Township have also received training funds, solving the worries about further study from the mountains to cities such as Lishui and Hangzhou, and are more at ease to take root in the education cause of the mountain village.
November 1 this year coincides with the 31st anniversary of the establishment of Sao Group and the 11th anniversary of the establishment of theSao Charity Foundation. Since its establishment, the Shengao Charity Foundation has focused on various work such as education assistance, respect for the elderly, poverty alleviation, and disaster relief. It has donated a total of 185 million yuan, implemented 305 donations, and benefited more than 220,000 people.
"Along the way, we know that development is not easy, and we deeply understand that it is valuable to watch over each other. When we have some abilities, we should do our best to give back to the society, help those in need, and embark on the road of common prosperity." said Ni Liangzheng, chairman of Shengao Group.
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