05-11-2009

Yang Mei, 13, packs up her bag before going to school in this photo exhibited at the launch of the Sichuan earthquake one year report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) at a press conference in Beijing, on Monday, May 11, 2009. Yang is one of some 10,000 students who are studying in prefabricated classrooms and using clean water and sanitary toilets in 39 schools of Xihe County, Gansu Province, thanks to the joint efforts of UNICEF and the Chinese Ministry of Education.

Children study with their new desks and chairs in a prefabricated classroom in Xihe County in this photo exhibited at the launch of the Sichuan earthquake one year report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) at a press conference in Beijing, on Monday, May 11, 2009.

A girl reads from a textbook with her classmates in one of the school supported by UNICEF in Xihe County, Gansu Province in this photo exhibited at the launch of the Sichuan earthquake one year report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) at a press conference in Beijing, on Monday, May 11, 2009.

Children do morning exercises at their playground in Caoyang Primary School in this photo exhibited at the launch of the Sichuan earthquake one year report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) at a press conference in Beijing, on Monday, May 11, 2009.

The photo exhibited in the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Sichuan earthquake one year report launch and press conference in Beijing, May 11, 2009 shows a girl reads a picture book at a Child Friendly Space in Anxian County. She now lives with her parents in a neighboring relocation camp.