Daily Life

"We finalized donations for thirty-eight primary schools and one middle school that their students would advance to in a poverty-stricken county in Guizhou Province. There are 1,896 students in total. We'll guarantee them breakfast and lunch. Breakfast will cost four yuan and include eggs and milk, while lunch will cost eight yuan, with a normal mix of meat and vegetables. They attend school around 170 days a year, and this will cost four million.

The remaining six million will go toward staff subsidies, student scholarships, material fees, school repairs and maintenance, and one set of clothes each for autumn and winter, as well as spring and summer. Staff subsidies will cover everyone from the cooks to the principals. The average salary in the local city is 2,900 yuan. We'll raise their take-home pay to between 4,000 and 6,000 yuan, and we'll also cover the difference in pension and medical insurance contributions. That's already an exceptionally generous salary for teachers in county towns and villages.

The volunteer teachers we recruit ourselves will join our charity foundation and receive a take-home salary of 7,000 yuan, with full social insurance contributions paid. Their social insurance accounts will all be registered in Lin'an. They'll also receive bonuses based on their students' grades.

Oh, right. The government already has programs in place, and some of the schools we're supporting have teachers who came under national policies to provide volunteer teaching. They receive subsidies of three or five hundred yuan per month, I think. What should we do with those teachers?"

There weren't many students at poor schools in the mountains, usually only twenty or thirty or so. Even the middle schools didn't have the thousands of students common in the cities. Those with ability had left, while those without it went out to work. Quite