A school is located in the Miao Village. Children of Miao heritage are able to attend school. The children whom we met at the village are able to read and write. Later, many villagers went up to the mountain to harvest vegetables and to prepare dinner for the SFU team. As a result of our visit, an anonymous donor donated money to have the first telephone lines installed in the Li and Miao villages.
Villagers are now able to communicate with the outside world.
Originally, Prof. Peter Williams was scheduled to arrive in Hainan on May 12. Unfortunately, the Canadian Airlines flight that he took arrived in Hong Kong late and he missed the connection to Hainan. He was forced to stay in Hong Kong overnight and take the next flight to Hainan on May 13. He arrived in Hainan in the late evening of May 13. On May 14, Prof. Tom Perry and Mr. Matt Vickers and Mrs. Candice Vickers delivered presentations and performances to faculty and students in the departments of Chinese Language and tourism at Qiongzhou University.