Wenfeng gets the best start in life

Xiuxiang plays with Wenfeng in the fields outside the family home
© UNICEF China/2024/Ma Yuyuan

How UNICEF is helping rural caregivers in China with early childhood development

A cow bell clanks gently in the otherwise still and quiet morning on a ridge high above Tongjiang river, Sichuan Province. The hillside is sculpted into terraces where farmers grow rice, wheat and potatoes. An older woman, Li Xiuxiang, walks down the terraces towards the clanking cow, past ancestral gravestones. On her back is a small boy, her grandson Wenfeng, who is one and a half years old. He is alert and curious, smiling and pointing at things as they pass.

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