It was decided to start to support students from a secondary school in a poor community in addition to the current supporting area. A dozen of students were selected as foster children from this secondary school for now.
At first we asked each of them to write a simple introductory essay and we gave out paper. They were all 7th grade but were apparently not used to write a composition. Most of them were at a loss.
A few started to write something and children sitting next them peeped into friends’ paper. We had to tell them “please don’t look at others, don’t imitate. You can just write what you like to do, what you usually eat, which class you like and so on…”
And the letters we collected from them are the ones in the picture here. Very short! I was amazed how short they were. And rather I was even curious what they wrote. Meanwhile, this reminded me again of the necessity of training local children’s writing ability.
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