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Free Education Empowers Rural Girls In Huaping - China

Students do the cleaning at Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 25, 2025. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teachers, doctors and civil servants, fulfill

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Free Education Empowers Rural Girls In Huaping - China

Students head for the canteen after class at Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 23, 2025. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teachers, doctors and civil

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Free Education Empowers Rural Girls In Huaping - China

An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 24, 2025 shows a view of the Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teachers, doctors and c

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Free Education Empowers Rural Girls In Huaping - China

Zhang Guimei (C) watches students exercising during the break at Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 24, 2025. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teachers

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Free Education Empowers Rural Girls In Huaping - China

A teacher grades exam papers at Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 24, 2025. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teachers, doctors and civil servants, ful

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Free Education Empowers Rural Girls In Huaping - China

Students have meals at the canteen of Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 23, 2025. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teachers, doctors and civil servant

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Free Education Empowers Rural Girls In Huaping - China

Students practice chorus at Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 23, 2025. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teachers, doctors and civil servants, fulfill

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Free Education Empowers Rural Girls In Huaping - China

A teacher tutors a student during the evening self-study class at Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 23, 2025. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teacher

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Free Education Empowers Rural Girls In Huaping - China

Two students have meals outdoors at Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 23, 2025. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teachers, doctors and civil servants,

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Free Education Empowers Rural Girls In Huaping - China

Zhang Guimei (3rd L) checks meal service at Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 23, 2025. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teachers, doctors and civil s

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Free Education Empowers Rural Girls In Huaping - China

Students have a class at Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 23, 2025. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teachers, doctors and civil servants, fulfilling

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Gaza Children Face Education Disruption - Khan Yunis

Children line up in the schoolyard outside a tent classroom in Al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip on September 8, 2025. Gaza is entering a third year with little to no formal schooling: the 2024–25 school year began with all classes in Gaza shut, and by mid-2025 around 97% of educational facilities had been damaged or destroyed by Israeli air strikes. Photo by Abdelrahman Rashad/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gaza Children Face Education Disruption - Khan Yunis

Children line up in the schoolyard outside a tent classroom in Al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip on September 8, 2025. Gaza is entering a third year with little to no formal schooling: the 2024–25 school year began with all classes in Gaza shut, and by mid-2025 around 97% of educational facilities had been damaged or destroyed by Israeli air strikes. Photo by Abdelrahman Rashad/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gaza Children Face Education Disruption - Khan Yunis

Children line up in the schoolyard outside a tent classroom in Al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip on September 8, 2025. Gaza is entering a third year with little to no formal schooling: the 2024–25 school year began with all classes in Gaza shut, and by mid-2025 around 97% of educational facilities had been damaged or destroyed by Israeli air strikes. Photo by Abdelrahman Rashad/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iranian Drones Target UNHCR Refugee Settlement Of Kurdistan Region - Iraq

A piece of a shrapnel in a schoolyard in a UNHCR refugee settlement in Koya, Iraq, on October 10, 2022, after it was attacked by a barrage of missiles and kamikaze drones launched by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on September 28, 2022. Following the attack, the UNHCR voiced grave concern about the attack and the reported casualties, “among them … women and children”, and offered condolences to the people affected. According to different reports, in a series of attacks by Iran on numerous targets in Kurdistan Region of Iraq, dozens of people were killed and wounded. The attacks reportedly targeted centers belonging to Kurdistan Party of Iran (KDPI) and the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan. Photo by Keiwan Fatehi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Israel Targets Historic Baalbek - Lebanon

Three young children stand in the schoolyard. Each displaced family from Baalbek has been assigned its own classroom in this school. Ghazze, Baalbek, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, November 1, 2024 Photo by Sami Boudra/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Israel Targets Historic Baalbek - Lebanon

Boys gather in the schoolyard with a soccer ball. The Ghazze school provides shelter to displaced families from Baalbek, each with a private classroom. Ghazze, Baalbek, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, November 1, 2024. Photo by Sami Boudra/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Israel Targets Historic Baalbek - Lebanon

A young boy stands in the schoolyard as other children play in the background, adjusting in a temporary shelter. The school in Ghazze provides one classroom per family for 28 displaced families from Baalbek. Ghazze, Baalbek, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, November 1, 2024. Photo by Sami Boudra/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Israel Targets Historic Baalbek - Lebanon

Children stand together in the schoolyard, holding a football under a basketball loop. Each displaced family from Baalbek has been assigned its own classroom in this school. Ghazze, Baalbek, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, November 1, 2024 Photo by Sami Boudra/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Assasinat de Dominique Bernard Un An Après - Arras

Concrete blocks around the Cité Scolaire Gambetta, which houses a collège and a lycée, on October 13, 2024, in Arras, France. The Cité Scolaire Gambetta-Carnot, one year after the death of Dominique Bernard, murdered in an Islamist attack in the schoolyard on October 13, 2023, by Mohammed Mogouchkov, one of his former students on file for Islamist radicalization. Here, the concrete blocks surrounding the school grounds to secure public areas and prevent the entry of ramming vehicles. Photo by Blanquart C/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Assasinat de Dominique Bernard Un An Après - Arras

The grave of Dominique Bernard, a teacher at the Cité Scolaire Gambetta-Carnot who was killed in an Islamist attack in the schoolyard on October 13, 2023, carried out by Mohammed Mogouchkov, one of his former students who was on file for Islamist radicalization. The grave is decorated with flowers, and many anonymous people pay their respects to Professor Dominique Bernard, on October 13, 2024 in Arras. Photo by Blanquart C/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Assasinat de Dominique Bernard Un An Après - Arras

The grave of Dominique Bernard, a teacher at the Cité Scolaire Gambetta-Carnot who was killed in an Islamist attack in the schoolyard on October 13, 2023, carried out by Mohammed Mogouchkov, one of his former students who was on file for Islamist radicalization. The grave is decorated with flowers, and many anonymous people pay their respects to Professor Dominique Bernard, on October 13, 2024 in Arras. Photo by Blanquart C/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Aerial photography [Breaking news]Chopper makes emergency landing in western Japan schoolyard

Video taken on June 11, 2024, shows a Robinson R44 helicopter that made an emergency landing in a schoolyard in Aioi in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, the previous day due to an engine problem.(Kyodo)

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Chopper makes emergency landing in western Japan schoolyard

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 11, 2024, shows a Robinson R44 helicopter that made an emergency landing in a schoolyard in Aioi in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, the previous day due to an engine problem.

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Chopper makes emergency landing in western Japan schoolyard

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 11, 2024, shows a Robinson R44 helicopter that made an emergency landing in a schoolyard in Aioi in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, the previous day due to an engine problem.

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Chopper makes emergency landing in western Japan schoolyard

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 11, 2024, shows a Robinson R44 helicopter that made an emergency landing in a schoolyard in Aioi in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, the previous day due to an engine problem.

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Chopper makes emergency landing in western Japan schoolyard

Photo taken on June 11, 2024, shows a Robinson R44 helicopter that made an emergency landing in a schoolyard in Aioi in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, the previous day due to an engine problem.

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Chopper makes emergency landing in western Japan schoolyard

Photo taken on June 11, 2024, shows a Robinson R44 helicopter that made an emergency landing in a schoolyard in Aioi in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, the previous day due to an engine problem.

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Japan: Dust Devil Sweeps Across Schoolyard During Sports Festival

A dust devil popped up and swept across a schoolyard in Morioka, northeast Japan on Saturday, May 25 surprising many students and parents who had gathered for a sports festival.

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Body of cat found in elementary schoolyard

Photo taken on Feb. 17, 2023, shows Saitama Prefectural Police investigating an elementary schoolyard in the city of Saitama, near Tokyo, where the body of a cat was found the same day.

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Farmer dries peanuts under sun in closed schoolyard

OJIKA, Japan - A farmer lays out peanuts to dry in the sun in the yard of an abolished elementary school in Ojika, Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, as seen in this file photo taken on Oct. 14, 2014.

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Man sets fire to himself, son

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows police examining the site where a father set fire to himself and his nine-year-old son -- in what police suspect was a murder-suicide attempt -- in the schoolyard of an elementary school in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Dec. 23, 2013.

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Hiroshima documentary screened in U.S.

WASHINGTON, United States - An audience gives a standing ovation after the screening of "Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard" at the All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington on Nov. 15, 2013. The documentary film is about the 2010 return of pictures to Hiroshima drawn by elementary school pupils in the city after the U.S. atomic bombing in appreciation of a donation from the church.

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Children of German school in Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Children of the German School of Tokyo Yokohama play soccer at the schoolyard in Yokohama on Feb. 2, 2012. The institution, which was established more than a century ago and offers kindergarten, primary and secondary schooling, is facing financial difficulty and seeking aid from the German government, following a sharp drop in enrollments in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Temporary shopping center in Iwate Pref.

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - People flock to a makeshift shopping center set up in a schoolyard in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2011. The shopping center opened the same day for people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the area.

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Ikeda Elementary School reopens 80 days after attack

OSAKA, Japan - Pupils of Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture gather in the schoolyard in front of a temporary schoolhouse on Aug. 27 for a ceremony to start the second term of the year. The school reopened 80 days after a knife-wielding man slaughtered eight children there on June 8.

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Ikeda schoolyard quiet in wake of massacre

IKEDA, Japan - The schoolyard of Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture is empty on June 13, after a man stabbed to death eight pupils and injured 15 others at the school June 8 in the worst mass killing in Japan in years.

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Graduation ceremony at disaster-hit high school

Graduates of Takata High School leave the school after receiving diplomas on March 1, 2016, in the March 2011 disaster-hit northeastern Japan city of Rikuzentakata. Temporary housing for evacuees is seen in the schoolyard. It was the first graduation ceremony at the school, where 22 students and a teacher were killed by tsunami, since it was rebuilt on higher ground. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Event held to create star-like sign on earth with radio waves from satellite

People wearing aluminum sheets stand in a schoolyard in Moriya, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on March 7, 2015, in an experiment to reflect radio waves from an orbiting Japanese earth observation satellite and create what may look like a star sign on the earth when seen from space. The experiment was organized by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and academic experts. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People seek to create star-like sign on earth with radio waves from satellite

People wearing aluminum sheets stand in a schoolyard in Moriya, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on March 7, 2015, in an experiment to reflect radio waves from an orbiting Japanese earth observation satellite and create what may look like a star sign on the earth when seen from space. The experiment was organized by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and academic experts. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disaster refugees walk by temporary housing built in schoolyard

Evacuees from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami walk in front of a temporary housing complex on March 3, 2015, built in a schoolyard in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. A large number of people still live in temporary homes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Children playing in a schoolyard

A stereograph by Underwood & Underwood Co. The caption on the back of the photograph explains that school buildings in small Japanese towns were usually one-story buildings but that in Yokohama, an international business city near Tokyo, educational reforms had been instituted. Copyright 1904. D75==Date:1904, Place:Yokohama, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐93‐0]

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Children playing in a small schoolyard

The national school system began in 1872. In those days there were nearly 3,000 terakoya (old style temple schools) in Shinshu (Nagano Prefecture) educating commoners. These temple schools were instrumental in the spread of modern education. Although modern school buildings were built after 1874, Buddhist temples were still being used as schools even in 1904 when this photograph was taken.==Date:1904, Place:Karuizawa, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐63‐0]

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Ikeda schoolyard quiet in wake of massacre

IKEDA, Japan - The schoolyard of Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture is empty on June 13, after a man stabbed to death eight pupils and injured 15 others at the school June 8 in the worst mass killing in Japan in years.

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Temporary housing for quake victims

TOKYO, Japan - Aerial image taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows temporary housing under construction at the schoolyard of a junior high school in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on April 6, 2011, about four weeks after the devastating earthquake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo)

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Children of German school in Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Children of the German School of Tokyo Yokohama play soccer at the schoolyard in Yokohama on Feb. 2, 2012. The institution, which was established more than a century ago and offers kindergarten, primary and secondary schooling, is facing financial difficulty and seeking aid from the German government, following a sharp drop in enrollments in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear crisis. (Kyodo)

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Temporary shopping center in Iwate Pref.

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - People flock to a makeshift shopping center set up in a schoolyard in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2011. The shopping center opened the same day for people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the area. (Kyodo)

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School's anti-coronavirus efforts

First-grade elementary school students each receive a gift from senior pupils wearing face shields at a schoolyard in Osaka on June 15, 2020, ahead of an entrance ceremony that had been delayed due to coronavirus fears. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Typhoon Trami

Photo shows a backstop blown over by winds from powerful Typhoon Trami in a schoolyard in Haebaru, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on Sept. 30, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ikeda Elementary School reopens 80 days after attack

OSAKA, Japan - Pupils of Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture gather in the schoolyard in front of a temporary schoolhouse on Aug. 27 for a ceremony to start the second term of the year. The school reopened 80 days after a knife-wielding man slaughtered eight children there on June 8.