"Poverty alleviation should start with education." Ma Yun has been paying attention to rural education for many years. He found that a big problem in rural education is that "in some particularly poor areas, primary schools are empty, and only a dozen students and one or two teachers teach five or six grades". Ma Yun said that the government has made a lot of efforts in the past 30 years to help hundreds of millions of people get rid of poverty, which is remarkable. Entrepreneurs should devote themselves to this poverty alleviation movement and fulfill their social responsibilities in this best and most effective era for entrepreneurs.
Ma Yun proposed to entrepreneurs at the scene: "Encourage everyone to serve their hometown, promote the school merger plan, and participate in school building construction and school bus donation. The Ma Yun Foundation is responsible for formulating standards, supervising implementation and publishing them to the public every year. "
20 17 12 1, Alibaba poverty alleviation fund was launched, with a five-year investment of 10 billion yuan for poverty alleviation. Ma Yun pointed to a photo of a rural child taking a wooden boat to school and said: "Many students need to take a boat to go to class and need to wade across mountains and rivers. I don't think these children should be boarding at all, and boarding must be strongly promoted. "
"Send the children home by school bus on Friday and send them to school from the village entrance on Monday morning; Rural left-behind women become life managers through training to take care of their children's lives; The school is very big, with hundreds of motivated students and teachers. " Ma Yun described the idea of merging schools in rural areas and perfecting boarding schools. "What we are doing today is to cooperate with the government and really affect the education of millions of rural children. Education will be strong if rural education is strong. " Ma Yun said.
At present, Ma Yun Public Welfare Foundation has taken the lead in launching the 20 17 rural boarding school pilot project, and has funded two schools in Guizhou for three years to participate in the upgrading project of rural boarding schools. These two schools are Datian Primary School in Southwest Guizhou and Zhaitou National Primary School in Southeast Guizhou. The project plans to build a rural boarding school with demonstration and benchmarking function through three years' support, which will be replicated and promoted in more rural areas in the future.
It is reported that in 20 15, Ma Yun Public Welfare Foundation launched the "Ma Yun Rural Teacher Program", which provided 100 rural teachers with a total bonus support and professional development support of 100 million yuan for three years. Since then, Ma Yun Public Welfare Foundation has successively issued the "Ma Yun Rural Principal Plan" and the "Ma Yun Rural Normal School Student Plan", which respectively plan to invest about 200 million yuan in 10 to find and support outstanding rural principals in China, and at least 300 million yuan in 10 to select outstanding normal graduates to become rural teachers and train future rural educators.