China
Feature: Smiles return to faces of quake-affected children
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Students from southwest China's Sichuan Province prepare breakfast for their classmates at the canteen of a summer camp in Tuapse, a city on Russia's Black Sea coast, July 20, 2008. Students at the summer camp serve their classmates in turn. A group of 184 students from China's earthquake-hit province of Sichuan arrived at the summer camp on July 19 for a three-week rehabilitation visit. (Xinhua Photo) |
Some happiness has returned to these children, who suffered greatly from the massive Sichuan earthquake two months ago. Their instructors at the center hope the children can recover fully before returning home.
Russian instructor, said, "They are very positive and happy. I hope when they leave the rehabilitation center, there will be more smiles on their face, and they will bring back with them smiles of happiness and fortune from Russia."
The children will spend additional time in Russia before returning home, and will attend recovery sessions provided by the center. More children from the quake zone will arrive here in the future, to recover the smiles they lost during the earthquake.