Chinese woman saved 30 abandoned babies

Redpunto · 30-07-2012 06:02PM #1

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181017/Story-Chinese-woman-saved-30-abandoned-babies-dumped-street-trash.html

China's most incredible mother: Staggering story of the woman who saved 30 abandoned babies after finding them dumped in the street with the trash
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 13:27 GMT, 30 July 2012 | UPDATED: 16:14 GMT, 30 July 2012
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Lou Xiaoying has been praised in China for saving more than 30 abandoned babies over the years
A woman has been hailed a hero after details of her astonishing work with abandoned children has emerged.

Lou Xiaoying, now 88 and suffering from kidney failure, found and raised more than 30 abandoned Chinese babies from the streets of Jinhua, in the eastern Zhejiang province where she managed to make a living by recycling rubbish.
She and her late husband Li Zin, who died 17 years ago, kept four of the children and passed the others onto friends and family to start new lives.
Her youngest son Zhang Qilin - now aged just seven - was found in a dustbin by Lou when she was 82.

'Even though I was already getting old I could not simply ignore the baby and leave him to die in the trash. He looked so sweet and so needy. I had to take him home with me,' she said.

'I took him back to our home, which is a very small modest house in the countryside and nursed him to health. He is now a thriving little boy, who is happy and healthy.
'My older children all help look after Zhang Qilin, he is very special to all of us. I named him after the Chinese word for rare and precious.
'The whole thing started when I found the first baby, a little girl back in 1972 when I was out collecting rubbish. She was just lying amongst the junk on the street, abandoned. She would have died had we not rescued her and taken her in.
'Watching her grow and become stronger gave us such happiness and I realised I had a real love of caring for children.
'I realised if we had strength enough to collect garbage how could we not recycle something as important as human lives,' she explained.
'These children need love and care. They are all precious human lives. I do not understand how people can leave such a vulnerable baby on the streets

This woman should be given a sainthood.

Tipsy McSwagger · 30-07-2012 06:18PM

Redpunto wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181017/Story-Chinese-woman-saved-30-abandoned-babies-dumped-street-trash.html

China's most incredible mother: Staggering story of the woman who saved 30 abandoned babies after finding them dumped in the street with the trash
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 13:27 GMT, 30 July 2012 | UPDATED: 16:14 GMT, 30 July 2012
Comments (21) Share

Lou Xiaoying has been praised in China for saving more than 30 abandoned babies over the years
A woman has been hailed a hero after details of her astonishing work with abandoned children has emerged.

Lou Xiaoying, now 88 and suffering from kidney failure, found and raised more than 30 abandoned Chinese babies from the streets of Jinhua, in the eastern Zhejiang province where she managed to make a living by recycling rubbish.
She and her late husband Li Zin, who died 17 years ago, kept four of the children and passed the others onto friends and family to start new lives.
Her youngest son Zhang Qilin - now aged just seven - was found in a dustbin by Lou when she was 82.

'Even though I was already getting old I could not simply ignore the baby and leave him to die in the trash. He looked so sweet and so needy. I had to take him home with me,' she said.

'I took him back to our home, which is a very small modest house in the countryside and nursed him to health. He is now a thriving little boy, who is happy and healthy.
'My older children all help look after Zhang Qilin, he is very special to all of us. I named him after the Chinese word for rare and precious.
'The whole thing started when I found the first baby, a little girl back in 1972 when I was out collecting rubbish. She was just lying amongst the junk on the street, abandoned. She would have died had we not rescued her and taken her in.
'Watching her grow and become stronger gave us such happiness and I realised I had a real love of caring for children.
'I realised if we had strength enough to collect garbage how could we not recycle something as important as human lives,' she explained.
'These children need love and care. They are all precious human lives. I do not understand how people can leave such a vulnerable baby on the streets

This woman should be given a sainthood.

She's probably a Buddhist so maybe coming back as a butterfly would be more apt.

30-07-2012 06:19PM

My god that's both an incredibly sad and overwhelmingly happy story. It's just horrendous to this these things go on in a modern world.

What a wonderful couple.

Capt'n Midnight · 30-07-2012 06:46PM

Given China's single child policy, any chance this is a scam to 'find' children and thus bend the rules.

Otherwise , the city is now the same size as Dublin and she's been finding one kid a year

30-07-2012 06:53PM

That's incredible.. Such good and evil each time she saved a child.

Shryke · 30-07-2012 07:14PM

Warms the heart to think of all those kids being alive and well because of her.

The Radiator · 30-07-2012 07:15PM

Perhaps Chinks do have souls

Mod note: user banned

Franticfrank · 31-07-2012 02:05PM

Absolutely amazing story. Well done to the woman. I hope this kind of thing is disappearing in line with China's economic growth...

jimthemental · 31-07-2012 02:09PM

What kind of selfish ****s would bring a child to term and then chuck it in the rubbish. Sickens me. Fair play to the woman for what she did.

discus · 31-07-2012 02:10PM

Would you get this in modern, comfortable Ireland? Nope. Those with least, give most. The very soul of that woman is beautiful.

DrumSteve · 31-07-2012 02:35PM

What a fantastic human being.

Maybe there is hope for us after all.

ScumLord · 31-07-2012 02:39PM

At first I thought she'd found the 30 babies at one time. :eek:

ScouseMouse · 31-07-2012 02:43PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Given China's single child policy, any chance this is a scam to 'find' children and thus bend the rules.

Otherwise , the city is now the same size as Dublin and she's been finding one kid a year

Are you suggesting she had THIRTY children and claimed she found them? Ah come on !

She deserves a medal. That one child policy, while maybe it is needed, is unjust.

Capt'n Midnight · 31-07-2012 02:46PM

superscouse wrote: »

Are you suggesting she had THIRTY children and claimed she found them? Ah come on !

Not her, friends and relatives.

Same way a lot of mothers pretend to have a late baby to cover for a daughters teenage pregnancy.

ScumLord · 31-07-2012 02:47PM

superscouse wrote: »

She deserves a medal. That one child policy, while maybe it is needed, is unjust.

The most populated province of India has managed to control it's population by educating women so they go on to have careers, most families now have only one or two children. I don't see China doing that effectively for a while yet. They don't even educate the majority of their population male or female. If you're from the country your effectively a second class citizen and have no right to education.

Duggy747 · 31-07-2012 02:51PM

It's quite common in China and other parts of Asia were babies are abandoned in dumps / bins, just left there to starve or let the elements take them.

Nice to see somebody had the heart to do something about it.

ScouseMouse · 31-07-2012 03:02PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Not her, friends and relatives.

Same way a lot of mothers pretend to have a late baby to cover for a daughters teenage pregnancy.

I never thought of that. Its just shocking. Didn't Mother Teresa do something similar in India?