Wokai Member: Stephen

My name is Jin Xiang, and I'm thirty-nine years old. My family has three people, including my sixteen year old son who is studying in middle school. He enjoys studying the "matouqin," (a small string instrument). He is b...   [View Profile]

We are a family of three. My daughter has already passed her college entrance exams. In 2000, we moved to the Malaxin new housing development. For generations, we have been herdsmen, so we had never planted in irrigated ...   [View Profile]

There are three people in my family. I have a 7 year-old son, who is very naughty and loves to sing very much. My husband often goes away for work and stays out of town for long periods of time, leaving me to do the hous...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhang Rong, I am 36 years old and I live in Huohong village. There are four people in my family. I use to work at a silk factory in another village, but I lost my job after the factory underwent renovations. M...   [View Profile]

My name is Aoduntuya. This year, I turned 28 and my family has three people, with my son in the first year of primary school. My husband and I are both herders from the same village and, after getting married my family s...   [View Profile]

My name is Hasirile and I am 42 years old. I am an ordinary herdsman living in Gacha and there are three people in our family. Both me and my husband are illiterate, so getting our son educated is a dream for both of us....   [View Profile]

There are 4 people in my family. We moved to Malaqinxin Village in 2000. At that time, we were allotted 3 Chinese acres of arable land. We had been herdsmen our whole lives, so we did not know any farming techniques. The...   [View Profile]

My name is Siqintuya and there are three people in my family. My son works in a nearby town, while my husband and I work in the countryside where we both grew up. Due to our family being poor, we have always had to work ...   [View Profile]

My name is Hudagula and I am a trusted long-term client of microfinance I am 42 years old and my 17 year old daughter is at high school. I started working at the mechanical department of a heat supply company, but after ...   [View Profile]

My name is Siqintuya, which means beautiful twilight sunshine. I am 37 years old, and our three person family lives in Daban township. My daughter is in the fourth grade and she loves to sing and dance as well as paint. ...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhang Zhihua, I am 26 years old and I am a new microloan borrower. There are 3 people in my family and we live in Daban Town. When I was younger, I lived with my parents and other siblings in a three-room mud-...   [View Profile]

My name is Hong Jingmei, and I am 40 years old. I live with my husband, daughter and son in Taobai Village, Daban Town. Because our family is poor, my daughter had to drop out of middle school and stay at home to help wi...   [View Profile]

My name is Ma Guangbi. I am 62 years old and I live with my six-member family in a poor mountain village. The last 10+ years have been very difficult, and I have had to work very hard. Last year, we moved out of our old ...   [View Profile]

My name is E'erdengqimuge (which means "golden flower"). I live in Jinxing village of Daban county, part of the city of Chifeng. I have a family of 4; my sons are grown and married. It's been years since I took out a mic...   [View Profile]

My name is Layue and I am 52 years old. I live in Baixing Village, in Daban Town. I have a son and a daughter, both of whom have begun families of their own, so my husband and I live alone. In order not to burden our chi...   [View Profile]

My name is Guo Xiuzhen, I am 60, and I live with my family of three in Baiwafang village near Fuxing town. I have raised five children to adulthood, with the first four already gone, raising their own families. Now, just...   [View Profile]

My name is Wuyunqimuge and I am 42 years old. We are a family of four. The oldest is my father-in-law and the youngest is my 16 year old son. I married into my husband's family 17 years ago and they lived in a very remot...   [View Profile]

My name is Siqin and it means "intelligent". I am an ordinary herder living in Baixing Village, Daban County. My family of two consists of just me and my son. We depend on each other for everything. My son is a plumber a...   [View Profile]

My name is Gerile and it means "bright". I am 52 years old and I am a regular herdsman. There are 5 people in my family, including my 3 daughters. My oldest daughter has graduated from university and she works full-time....   [View Profile]

My name is Siqingaowa and that means "beauty and intelligence". I am 52 years old. In 2001, my family left the inaccessible desert for our current home in Malaxin New Village. When we first reached here, we had sold off ...   [View Profile]

My name is Jinxiang, I am 38 years old. My family has three members, my son is 15 years old. He is going to middle school and likes studying the Matouqin (Mongol stringed instrument). Being clever and sweet, he is our gr...   [View Profile]

My name is Hasituya, I am 56 years old. I live in a village with my husband about 60 miles from Dabanyu. He used to be a doctor in the nearby hospital and he is now retired. I have been taking micro-finance loans for 10 ...   [View Profile]

My name is Hudagula, and I am 46 years old. My family has four members. I used to be a shop assistant with a supply and marketing firm. After the business went bankrupt in 1991, I became a jobless vagrant. My husband wor...   [View Profile]

My name is Li Bo. There are six people in my family. We use to live in a remote village which was very difficult to get to because of the bad roads and we were very poor. To make things easier for my parents, I dropped o...   [View Profile]

I am an average herdswoman. My name is Gerile, which means "Light". I am fifty years old this year. There are five of us in our family. All three of our daughters are either already graduated from college or still in col...   [View Profile]

My name is Guan Xiaoli. I am 30 years old. My family lives in Daban Town in Chifeng City, Bairin Right. Originally, my family had 10 mu of dry land on which we grew corn every year to support ourselves. We previously liv...   [View Profile]

My name is Chaolumenqiqige, and there are 3 of us in my family – my daughter will be 4 this year. My home is in Haorao Qingacha Jinxing Village, near Daban town. My husband and I run a motorcycle repair shop in the villa...   [View Profile]

My name is Siqing Gerile and I’m a typical herdsman from Balin Youqi, Inner Mongolia. Our livestock and few mu of land are our only form of income. Our daughter is in her first year of high school. Her grades are good an...   [View Profile]

My name is Rao Shisong. I live in the village of Shenxi in a rural area where resources are extremely limited. My family owns nearly nothing. My wife left me and our two children because of my inability to bring money to...   [View Profile]

My name is Narengerile, which means warm sunshine. I am 35 years old. I am an average herdsmen in Baixing village of Daban Town. There are four of us in our family. After my daughter graduated middle school, she went out...   [View Profile]

My name is Wujengaowa. In 2002, I moved to a new town, where my life depended on the low salaries of myself and my husband. He is a bricklayer, often working in the construction site. Although we were able to afford enou...   [View Profile]

My name is Wurentuya and I am 29 years old. I have a young daughter and our three-person family lives in Daban township. Because my family's financial situation was not good, I married young. When I moved in with my husb...   [View Profile]

My name is Fu Bizhen and I am a Sichuanese mother with 3 children including a son who has already graduated from university and is out working. My second son is in college now, and my youngest (daughter) is in high schoo...   [View Profile]