Most of the resident students there live on meals consisting of just rice with no vegetables or meat. As a way of solving their problems, a nutrition program has been launched in some village schools.
Chen Rong, 11, has to share the housework and farm work with her parents who have difficulty in supporting the family due to physical disabilities. Chen says she will look after her parents for the rest of her life as "their hand and eyes".
A man recently tracked down his missing son, who had been gone for 19 years, and found he had been adopted by a couple in the United States.
A displaced native child of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in Northwest China went back to the region's capital Urumqi on Monday evening as the first person to return home following the regional government's pledge in late April to bring back local children who are wandering in other parts of the country.
A child of migrant workers has her hair cut by a local volunteer in the Miao Ethnic Minority Autonomous County, Southwest China’s Guizhou province, May 26, 2010. The local volunteers have provided books and school supplies to migrant workers’ children for Children’s Day.
A member of the Deqing chamber of commerce and industry (right) tells stories to Fu Hongyan (middle), a child left behind by his migrant-worker parents, in Deqing county, East China’s Zhejiang province, May 26, 2010. The chamber has provided books, school supplies and beverages to at least 10 children of migrant workers for Children’s Day.
A garbageman surnamed Kui cleans a street with a baby on his back while his wife surnamed Zhou works beside him in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong province, May 24, 2010.
A boy in Dalian, Liaoning province, collects rotten vegetables every day to feed his mother who has an incurable disease.