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The Guanlan Scholarship Foundationhas been giving scholarship support to keep village girls in school through high school in a left-behind area of western China since the year 2000. Continued schooling empowers the girls to imagine broader horizons and take advantage of better living and work opportunities beyond small-scale farming, low-paid, insecure, hard labor, or worse. Better educated girls can take better care of themselves and their families and are better able to resist workplace abuses.

The Foundation has an updated website and presence on Facebook, however it needs active posting and blogging to raise interest and become noticed on social media. The Foundation is lead by its founder, Dr. Vilma Seeberg, and has a current enrolment of approximately 40 young village girls, many of whom are rural to urban migrants, where they are undocumented and treated like second-class non-citizens, experience discrimination, poverty, and a second-class education. The scholarship pays for the fees and tuition to graduate from high school, which propels them into a better starting position in the labor market - and gives them the confidence to seek better opportunities and flourish.

The Foundation welcomes also volunteers who can translate from and to Chinese for the scholarship recipients, the Guanlan Sisters.