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China: Recovery work continues
28 Oct 2009
“I love this newly built dormitory. It is spacious, bright, solid and firm. We feel safe sleeping inside,” grade 8 student Chen Yao told World Vision staff during the moving-in ceremony held in September at Beimiao Primary School in Jiange County of Sichuan Province.
Over 500 teachers and students of the school attended the ceremony to witness the completion and opening of the new dormitory which was rebuilt with the help of World Vision.
Much of the school was destroyed in the Sichuan earthquake in May of 2008. Since then, students had been living and attending classes in pre-fabricated buildings.
The new 32-room dormitory has allowed students to move out of the pre-fabricated buildings.
World Vision has also constructed 2,472 square metres of cemented playground, 124.4 metres of fencing wall, 46 metres of retaining wall and an iron gate for Beimiao Primary School, providing students with a safe environment to study and live in.
In addition to the immediate relief response after disasters like the Sichuan earthquake, or more, recently, the West Sumatra earthquake in Indonesia or Typhoon Ketsana in the Philippines and other countries, World Vision also seeks to aid in long-term recovery.
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