Since the 1990s, with the rise of a booming Chinese economy, more than 200 million people in China have left their hometowns to make a living in the cities. Due to the mass relocation of the country's labor force, countless number of children were left in their home villages to be taken care of by their grandparents, or to stay with the relatives and friends. Since they are separated for a long period of time from their parents who work outside their home village, they are called the "Left-behind Children".
Love Foundation has already carried out Love'n care Campaign for Left-behind Children in the following 18 provinces and cities while most of these places have already established "Love'n Care Service Stations". According to data, over 20 million children from the following different provinces and cities are boarding at schools and they don't return home regularly while most of them are the left-behind children.
Three groups of left-behind individuals:
Left-behind Children
Majority of left-behind children are aged from 11 and under, usually taken care by their grandparents, risk facing the following problems:
1.Personal Safety
2.Physical Health
3.Educational
4.Social Networking and Emotion
5.Characteristic and Value
Left-behind women
Left-behind elderlies
In about 40% of left-behind families, young and strong couples left the rural village to work in the urban city leaving behind their elderly parents at home to take care of their children. Majority of them are relatively low in economic status, mainly rely on their younger children who work in the city or government aids for basic living. Leaving behind the eldest and youngest to rely on each other in the rural village, for the elderlies, it is especially poor and sadden when facing illnesses, which would have no one to take care of.