My father pointed to the peaks at the edge of the village and told me: there is the sea on the other side of the mountain, and there are mountains on the other side of the sea. And there are many children like me living on a thing called "Earth".

Earth? This was the first time I heard this word. I asked my father, can I kick, or play it?

But father told me it cannot be kicked or played.

About what is the earth, my father explained too vaguely to understand. I wondered what it is and planned to ask my preschool teacher tomorrow.

Once I came into the classroom early the next morning, I asked my teacher about it, but the teacher told me that there was a gift about the Earth.

What? A gift? Who gave it to me? Where did the gift come from? How could I have a gift? How could he or she know I would like it?

A lot of questions just popped into my head again, which made me really puzzled. When all the children came together and sat on the seats, the teachers brought out the "surprise" and sent it to each of us.

It turned out that there were many interesting things, such as plush toys, new shoes, picture books, beautiful schoolbags, color pens, etc. What surprised me was that there was a thing like " the Earth".

Our teacher came to me and handed me the globe, saying the Earth looks like it. She also pointed to a small piece on the globe and told us that our country is here. In this small place, there are not only us, but also many uncles, aunts and other children.The gifts we receive today were from adults and children of Boehringer & Ingelheim (BI) who care about us.

I received globe, and every child received gifts in their wish list. We were so happy. I thought that when I came home from school, I would take the globe home to tell my father how big the outside world is.

When we were all immersed in the joy of getting the gift, the teacher interrupted us and said that adults and children of BI had something to tell us, and they were waiting for us in the corridor outside the classroom.

Everyone rushed out of the classroom and found that the wall outside was covered with colorful notes, but we didn't know the words on them.

The teacher came up and took us to read them one by one.

After reading all the notes, our hearts were warm. It turns out that far away from the mountains, there are so many uncles, aunts and children who care about our healthy and happy growing up.

I decided in my heart: we must study hard to go out of the mountains, and go to the wonderful world outside. It's better to travel all over the world.

Looking at the gifts in hands, we are all grateful to the other adults and children of BI.

"But I don't know them or where they are. How can I thank them?" Suddenly a little girl said anxiously.

How about drawing our thanks? The teacher came over and said.

As expected, teachers are the most powerful people in the world, and they can always teach us what to do when we don't know what to do.

Dear adults and children of BI, thank you. We really like these gifts. We will study hard and go out of the mountains.

Project introduction:

Funded by Boehringer & Ingelheim Foundation, the “Preschool of Xueshan Village in Longling County, Yunnan Province” is implemented in cooperation with the Federation for Associations connected to the International Humana People To People Movement (Switzerland) Yunnan Office and the Poverty Alleviation and Development Office of Longling County People's Government. The specific content of the project includes hardware improvement, infrastructure maintenance such as preschool classrooms, lunch nap rooms, outdoor sites, toys and teaching aids; provision of training services for preschool teachers; supervision and management of the preschools’ daily operation; assisting teachers to provide training to children’s parents; set up a parent committee to participate in preschool's affairs management; the class teaching courses focus on the comprehensive development inthe five fields--children's health, language, society, science and art. By providing a quality pre-school education services, full preparations are made for children to enter primary schools.

The project is funded by Boehringer & Ingelheim.

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