Over the past decade, China’s rural villages have lost over half of their residents as the young and talented have moved to coastal provinces in pursuit of better-paying factory jobs. As a result, rural China is now facing a funding crisis in education and health care services. Young children are among the most deeply affected. As rural villages have depopulated, a lack of students have forced many rural middle and high schools to close. In order to pursue cost savings, rural middle and high school students are now forced to live away from home, residing in county capitals, as early as ten years of age. Separation from parents, exposure to communicable diseases, and other health issues are just some of the challenges faced by these young children. REAP (Rural Education Action Project) was organized by Northwest University and Stanford University in order to find creative solutions to the health and educational problems faced by China’s countryside.