Shandong Business Daily And Speed Leopard News Network reporter Xu Xiaoyang Zhang Lei
On the evening of January 17
Reporter of Shandong Business Daily and Suibao News Network
Received a request for help from the girl Zhao:
Travelled to Tonga to participate in assistance, including their parents
Three liaocheng university professors disappeared after the local tsunami.
After receiving the request for help, the reporter quickly helped Zhao to contact many parties.
The good news came on the 18th!
Three professors in Tonga confirm safety!
Shandong professor and couple Tonga confirmed that they were safe
Daughter voice: it has caused trouble for the country
At 17:00 on the 18th, the three teachers of Liaocheng University in Tonga, accompanied by the staff of the Chinese Embassy in Tonga, with the help of the maritime satellite phone of the local Chinese-funded enterprise, have made direct calls with their domestic families, and the three teachers are personally safe and have a secure life.
After the stone in her heart landed, the daughter of the original helper, Zhao Peibao, sent a circle of friends: Thank you very much, for adding trouble to people from all walks of life and the country! Thank you for your help!
About what many netizens care about:
"Why did the three professors go to Tonga?"
"What did they do there?" and other issues
The reporter also brought answers to everyone
Fast forward to a few years ago, when the King of Tonga became aware of the problems caused by obesity. In 2018, after the King of Tonga visited the mainland, he clearly put forward the requirements for educational and agricultural technical assistance, with the intention of improving the diet of the country's residents and improving their health through the learning and promotion of vegetable cultivation technology.
Since January 2019, at the invitation of the Ministry of Education and Training of the Kingdom of Tonga, Liaocheng University has been entrusted by the Ministry of Education to send two teaching teams with a total of 7 teachers to Tonga to carry out foreign aid work. Zhao Peibao, Ren Aizhi and Zhang Jianfeng, who were once missing this time, are the second batch. A reporter from Shandong Shangbao Subao News Network (subaoxw.com) learned from Liaocheng University that Zhao Peibao and Ren Aizhi are teachers in the College of Agronomy and Agricultural Engineering, and Zhang Jianfeng is a teacher in the College of History, Culture and Tourism.
Although I expected that it would be difficult before I went, after I really arrived in the local area, the teachers still had a cliff-like psychological gap: the residence was a very simple tin house, not to mention the home appliances such as air conditioning. There are too many outdoor mosquitoes, and at night, I dare not open the window in the house, and the local area is located in the tropics, and it is uncomfortable to imagine. In terms of work, there are no ready-made vegetable seeds, suitable agricultural tools and irrigation equipment, and no ready-made arable land. The local people and students have never seen the green vegetables, can't grow them, and are not interested in it... Some teachers couldn't help but cry.
But! It is hard to resist the hard-working Chinese. Teachers started from scratch, bought seeds and agricultural tools at their own expense, reclaimed cultivated land one by one, and made their own Chinese teaching aids... Zhang Jianfeng overcame many difficulties such as the increase in the number of students and the serious shortage of teaching materials, integrated songs and nursery rhymes into the classroom, and carried out Chinese teaching with great success. Ren Aizhi and Zhao Peibao struggled to find heat-resistant, drought-tolerant, short-cycle vegetable varieties suitable for Cultivation in Tonga, and began to explore easy-to-manage large-scale cultivation models.
However, just as they were about to do a big job, a sudden tropical storm swept through Tonga, equivalent to a 10-degree wind and heavy rain on land. After the rainstorm, the roofs of many classrooms were blown away, and the teaching experimental field was in a mess... They knew it was all about to start all over again. Zhang Jianfeng insisted on teaching Chinese in a classroom without a roof, and Zhao Peibao and Ren Aizhi immediately started "post-disaster reconstruction" replanting, soil cultivation, and scaffolding...
Nowadays, with the efforts of many teachers, Chinese cucumbers, melons, cowpeas, leeks, bitter melons, loofahs, cabbage, cabbage, dwarf kidney beans and other varieties have taken root in Tonga, and the "Chinese Teacher's Vegetable Garden" is becoming more and more popular in the local area.
In December 2020, the Tonga Academy, the Ministry of Education of Tonga and the Chinese Embassy in Tonga conducted a comprehensive assessment of the one-year volunteer teaching work of Zhao Peibao and other three teachers, and all gave them excellent evaluations. According to the original plan, the teachers should have returned to China at the end of the year, but due to the epidemic, Tonga has continued to close its borders since March 2020, and there is no normal navigation, and the three teachers have applied for the continuation of the education assistance program to continue to work.
Editor of Shandong Business Daily And Leopard News Network Liu Qingying