Li Quan, a 3-year-old boy, lives in Shiying Village of Dayin Town in Bijie, southwest China’s Guizhou Province. Every week Li’s home welcomes a special guest—a parenting coach, who encourages and guides his mother or grandmother to play, talk, read and sing with him.
On the afternoon of December 18, 2023, the silence in the small living room of Li’s home would occasionally be broken by a burst of laughter, lending the cold winter a warm touch. The laughter erupted whenever Li would successfully complete a puzzle or actively react to his mother or the coach.
The coach’s home visit is an “active involvement” method of the China Rural Education and Child Health (China REACH) program, which provides rural families with children aged 6 to 36 months with one-hour in-home parenting guidance once a week.
China REACH was first launched in 2015 in Huachi County of Gansu Province in northwest China, by the China Development Research Foundation
