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Ruan
Chunlan
Deputy Mayor of
Damogu Township
Photovoice Project Participant
"Feelings and Thoughts
from Damogu Township"
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I am a typical
rural woman. I attended our village
school, set up after liberation, and then
finished my primary and junior middle
school in our county township. Eventually,
I graduated from the middle normal school
in the county. My school was in a
mountainous village called Xiaobaiji near
my home village.
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Some of my classmates became
doctors, some became industrial workers. I took
teaching as my profession, because I have a strong
desire to improve the educational level of my
fellow villagers, and education is the only way to
narrow the gap between village and city. We should
take the first step ourselves and take the lead
within our own families.
I have been a participant
from the very beginning of the Women's Reproductive
Health and Development Program. The most remarkable
feeling I have had from the project is that of
international unity. Women from every life station
are cooperating with the ideals of unity, equality,
and development.
I would like to take this
opportunity to give other women in poor mountainous
villages some sincere advice. We could not choose
our parents and birthplace, we could not choose our
sex, but we can come to know ourselves and struggle
to overcome our difficulties. We are confident that
we can continue to work for equality, peace,
development, and happiness.
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