格桑德吉：悬崖边上的护梦人，感动中国的教育使者。【2013感动中国十大人物】 hers is a story of dedication and perseverance, as she braved the treacherous terrain to bring education to the children of her community.

【获奖名片】：格桑花开

【颁奖词】：

Not wanting to let her people's dreams fall off the cliff, she returned home with determination. She stood by the snow-capped mountains and rivers, beating for many hearts. With one heart, she pumped life into a group of people, lighting up more lamps in the mountains.

【推选理由】：

杜玉波: Cultivating students is our career; caring for them is our instinct. Everything for students - this is what teachers pursue eternally. Du Yubao says that this is how Sangdeji does it.

彭长城: It's not far-reaching ambition but broad-mindedness; not eloquent words but pure soul. She is an unselfish teacher among minority ethnic groups on the border.

王振耀: The diligent gardener at the foot of Mount Everest - it was her who made reality out of the educational dreams of mountain village children.

【事迹介绍】:

Sangdeji, a woman from Xizang Autonomous Region's Mêdog County Haisin Township Primary School teacher.

In 2000, after graduating from Hebei Normal University, Sangdeji didn't follow other classmates' paths to big cities but chose to return home instead. To ensure that Domba ethnic minority kids could go to school near Yaluzhangbu River and Mount Everest foothills,

Sangdeji gave up Lhasa work and applied voluntarily for rural teaching positions in these remote areas plagued by frequent landslides and rockfalls.

Mêdog County Haisin Township was last connected by road each year due to constant mudslides,

and roads were impassable during heavy snowfall or when bridges collapsed,

often forced Sangdeji

to wade through icy waters

or slide down iron ropes

to transport children back home safely every year,

despite being six months pregnant.

These years have seen Sangdeji teach well while sacrificing her own daughter Cyenchen since age two living with grandparents in Lhasa until age seven before meeting again once every five years.

The "Most Beautiful Rural Teacher" award brought together Sangdeiji's husband and daughter in Beijing,

their fifth reunion since 13 years ago when they first met there.

Under Sangdejii’s efforts over 13 years,

the dropout rate dropped dramatically from 30% initially down to less than 5%.

She taught students who went on to become high school graduates (20+),

college/university graduates (6), while sending away her own child all along without seeing much progress due solely because she prioritized education above personal interests — hence earning locals affectionate nickname 'Hug Dreamer'.