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The Yuqing Middle School of Singapore visited Chengdu from Nov 12th to Nov 17th, 2012 with help of China Exploration. It is a large group of 20 students and 3 teachers. They visited Ebian Yi minorty and Chengdu, and the action in Ebian was the key of this trip.
They visited the primary school of Heizugou village of Ebian county. Ebian was one of the poor counties with many ethnic minority of Yi people in Sichuan, and the central primary school of Heizhugou village is about 30 kms from the town, the students are mostly from the villagers in the mountain.
The students from Yuqing Middle School experiended the hospitality from Heizhugou school and Ebian government. The mayor and important government officials of Ebian county attended the welcome ceremony, and local TV stadio provided active interview too. The students of Heibian prepared rich program for the guests from Singapore: local ethnic minority dancing shows. And for the childen , the cheerful time was the basketball match between two schools! It was fair for everybody when they are on the sports ground, no barrier of language, nationality.
After the communication with the Primary school, and they also visited local Nursing House of old people, cleaned yard for the old people, told them some interesting stories.
It was an unforgetible experience for these kids, they understood how to help those in need.