CHINA—In the Guizhou Province of Southwest China, the sunshine barely lasts for three days in a row during the winter. The weather is constantly gloomy and it often rains. On a slippery village road near the Moon Mountain area, a girl carrying a boy on her back to school is a daily sight.
On Dec. 9, China’s Today Morning Express published a report about a girl named Ning Yuexiang. She is a fourth grader at the Dadong Elementary school in Yong Li County. She is eight years old, and the boy she carries on her back is her two-year-old brother.
She started washing clothes at the age of four. At age five, she climbed hills to chop wood with her father. She started taking care of her six-month old baby brother at six years of age so that her mother could work on the farm.
