Lou cares for some of her many
children along with her husband Li Zin.
Posted on 07/30/2012 4:14:51 PM PDT by wagglebee
JINHUA, ZHIEJIANG PROVINCE, China, July 30, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Although 88-year-old Lou Xiaoying may now be close to death, she will not soon be forgotten in her home city of Jinhua.
The Daily Mail on Monday recorded the astonishing story of the elderly woman, whose meager living recycling trash did not stop her from bringing home and caring for all the abandoned infants she came across - all 30 of them.
Lou cares for some of her many
children along with her husband Li Zin.
“I realised if we had strength enough to collect garbage, how could we not recycle something as important as human lives,” she said.
“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.”
Under China’s one-child policy parents must obtain a pregnancy permit or face severe penalties, and it is estimated that some 35,000 abortions are committed per day in the country - many of them forced. Investigations have revealed that human rights abuses under the policy are rampant, with family planning police often dealing with “illegal pregnancies” through forced abortions and infanticide.
The woman says her rescue effort began in 1972, when she found a little girl “lying amongst the junk on the street, abandoned.”
Today, Lou suffers from kidney failure, and pictures show her on a hospital bed, where two smiling children interact with her.
Her youngest child, seven-year-old Zhang Qilin, was found in a dustbin as an infant when Lou was 82 years old.
“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.
Last week, outrage shook the Internet when it was revealed a premature baby girl in Anshan city, Liaoning province, had been thrown in the trash with umbilical cord still attached, in a plastic bag with her throat cut. Doctors said she would have died of suffocation within minutes, and had the cut been any deeper, it would certainly have taken the baby girl’s life.
One fan quoted by the Daily Mail said that Lou’s remarkable charity to unwanted infants has put China’s Communist Party to shame and made her a local hero.
“She is shaming to governments, schools and people who stand by and do nothing. She has no money or power but she saved children from death or worse,” said the fan.
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She’s just one person, and she found 30 babies. Can you imagine how many more are never discovered?
Oh, I'll bet she's got some riches stored up in Heaven.
/johnny
China is experiencing it now.
Leni
This woman is extraordinary. God bless her.
Tell me God wasn’t clearing the way for this woman and her children. Those family planning block captains can be vicious. And yet with God’s help this woman saved the kids. What a great story.
My heart goes out to her.
“Well done my good and faithful servant.”
I am sure I read that William Wallace was thought to be dead and thrown on a trash heap.
An old woman came by and discovered he was alive and somehow, probably with help got him on a cart, took him home and nursed him back to health.
God love her. Every time I am about ready to give up on humanity, I come across a story like this.
Good people are out there. They rarely get the press, but they are out there.
Speechless, sorry.
BTTT!
Not to mention the untold horrors that this good Woman experienced while digging through the trash, finding those whom she did not find in time, and those, could not be saved at all.
This woman will be in heaven when she passes, for caring when no one else around her did.
and they give the nobel peace prize to obama. God bless this woman!
Wow...just Wow!
I just thought of this song from childhood, “Jesus loves the little Children, all little children of the world, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in
his site, Jesus love the little children of the world.”
God will reward this women with the greatness of Heaven.
Unstated in the article, and even more to the credit of Mrs. Lou, the baby boys she took in MUST have also suffered from birth defects.
NOBODY abandons healthy baby boys in China.
Unstated in the article, and even more to the credit of Mrs. Lou, the baby boys she took in MUST have also suffered from birth defects.
NOBODY abandons healthy baby boys in China.
I bet you’re right.
Exactly. Prayers for her.
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