关于九秋
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九秋村坐落于月亮山中，是一个农耕苗寨，人口共1200人左右。这里保持着传统的苗族特色与生活习惯，建筑采用传统木结构苗族吊脚楼，大人们日常穿著苗族民族服装；除了孩子们在学校中讲普通话外，所有人都用苗语交流沟通。
九秋小学原本是一个完整小学，提供学前班至六年级的课程，但由于师资力量匮乏，3至6年级被合并至相对发达的加宜村小学。九秋至加宜需要二十分钟左右的盘山公路车程，故3至6年级的学生们从自己村小学的走读生，变成了其他村小学的住校生，只有假期才会回家。在贵州山区里，这样的故事并不少见，因为资源的缺少，导致偏远地区的小学一个接一个地合并，教育资源全部集中至较为发达的村或县城中，越来越多的孩子需要离开自己的家乡，前往别处寄宿上学。九秋村小学的王校长在与我们交谈时表示，他非常希望通过九秋助学项目的援助，让九秋小学拥有更多的资源，否则在不久的将来，九秋小学会被彻底合并，学前班与一、二年级的孩子们（大部分3-9岁左右）也需要离开自己家乡，常年寄宿在外，被迫和自己的家人分开，这对于这个年龄的孩子们来说绝对是弊大于利的。
截止2021年，九秋村6-16周岁人口共234人，贫困生156人；学前19人，贫困生15人；小学阶段161人，贫困生104人；初中阶段40人，贫困生28人；高中7人，贫困生4人；中职6人，贫困生3人。
Jiuqiu Village, located in the Moon Mountains, is a farming Hmong village with a total population of about 1,200 people. It maintains traditional Hmong characteristics and habits, with traditional wooden Hmong hammock buildings and adults wearing Hmong ethnic clothing on a daily basis; everyone communicates in the Hmong language, except for children when they have classes at school.
Jiuqiu Primary School was originally a complete primary school offering classes from pre-school to sixth grade, but due to a lack of teachers, grades 3 through 6 were consolidated into the relatively developed Gayi Village Primary School. Jiuqiu to Gayi is about a twenty-minute drive on a mountainous road, so the students in grades 3 to 6 became boarding students in another village, only going home during holidays. In the mountainous areas of Guizhou, such stories are not uncommon. The lack of resources leads to the merging of primary school in remote areas one after another, concentrating all educational resources in more developed villages or counties. More and more children need to leave their hometowns and go to boarding schools elsewhere. The principal of Jiuqiu Village Primary School, Mr. Wang, expressed his great hope that through the Jiuqiu Children Program, Jiuqiu Primary School will have more resources. Otherwise, in the near future, Jiuqiu Primary School will be completely merged, and the children in pre-school and first and second grade (most of them are around 3-9 years old) will also need to leave their hometowns and board away all year round, forcing them to be separated from their families. This will definitely do more harm than good to the children at this age.
As of 2021, the population between the ages of 6 and 16 of Jiuqiu Village is 234 people, including 156 students in poverty; 19 in preschool, including 15 students in poverty. There are 161 people in primary school, including 104 students in poverty; 40 people in middle school, including 28 students in poverty; 7 people in high school, including 4 students in poverty; and 6 people in secondary school, including 3 students in poverty.