Prior to the Incorporation of the YAF, the principle parties of the YAF began a school in Shengcun. This was our first building project that replaced a two classroom school for grades one and two. The old school was made of adobe and contained rough benches for the students and a single blackboard. It was very dark and the ceiling area was rented for storage of cattle fodder.
　　The village is located down a steep grade form the mountain road passing nearby. The new school is located near the road. It consists of two classrooms, two dormitories for the teachers, kitchen, privy, playground, cistern, electric supply, enclosing wall and gate. It is a very modern rural Chinese school.
　　The new school has 8 classrooms, dormitory for the students, 16 apartments for the teachers, large kitchen, clinic used by the school and the local village, privy (the first in the village), playground, electric supply for the school, clean water supply for the school and village (previously all water came from a local river with several villages located upstream), drainage ditches, 2000 square meters of land to grow vegetables for the school food program, office for the protection of the environment and enclosing wall to keep out local farm animals. We would still like to add another privy as the first one is too small for the number of students and a shower area for the students and village. All bathing and washing must now be done in the river.
　　Lula is a very remote village, located 4 kilometers from the Myanmar border. It is very difficult to attract quality teachers to this area. We hope that the new school will entice better quality teachers to Lula. Teaching in Lula is a very difficult job. There are 13 minorities in Lula itself and more in the surrounding areas. They each have their own culture and language.

　　The Lula school is a much larger project begun by the YAF with assistance from Project Hope in 2002. The YAF and Project Hope with help from the Jinghong Communist Party convinced the local government of the merits of the school and made this project possible.
　　The old school in Lula was a bamboo hut containing rough wooden benches for the students and a single blackboard. Water would stream through the mud floor of the school when it rained.
　　The new school has 8 classrooms, dormitory for the students, 16 apartments for the teachers, large kitchen, clinic used by the school and the local village, privy (the first in the village), playground, electric supply for the school, clean water supply for the school and village (previously all water came from a local river with several villages located upstream), drainage ditches, 2000 square meters of land to grow vegetables for the school food program, office for the protection of the environment and enclosing wall to keep out local farm animals. We would still like to add another privy as the first one is too small for the number of students and a shower area for the students and village. All bathing and washing must now be done in the river.