“麦期望”,真名麦锡祥,是广东省东莞市长安镇咸西村民兵营的副营长,主要负责该村治安队的工作。 1997年初夏的一天,麦锡祥在报上读到一则消息:湘西十数万中小学生、适龄儿童由于家庭极度贫困而或者中途辍学,或者根本就上不起学。寥寥数语,如火灼肤,麦锡祥心里很是难受:当年,他自己就是因为家贫,只读到初二便被迫退学！他曾因此发过誓,决不能让这样的事情再在孩子们身上发生！于 “Wheat Expectations,” whose real name is Mai Xixiang, is the deputy commander of the Xianxi Village Militia Camp in Chang’an Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province. He is mainly responsible for the work of the village security team. One day in the early summer of 1997, Mai Xixiang read a news report that tens of thousands of primary and secondary school students in western Hunan, school-age children dropped out of school due to extreme poverty in their families, or they simply could not afford to go to school. A few words, such as the fire burning skin, Mai Xixiang heart is very uncomfortable: that year, he is because of poverty, only to read the first two were forced to drop out! He swore an oath so that no such thing should happen to the children! in