Zheng Meihua (R) cooks supper while her sister Zheng Meitao reads her textbook after school in Taishun County, Zhejiang Province in this photo taken in April, 1994. The sisters went back to school with the help of Hope Project after suffering the death of their parents. [Xinhua]

A Tibetan woman takes her child to school sponsored by Hope Project from Layihai village, Daotanghe town, Gonghe County, northwest China's Qinghai Province, in April 1999. Over 90 percent children in this village go to school since the boarding school was built in 1990's. [Xinhua]