Posted on 08/03/2012 8:51:29 PM PDT by Beave Meister
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.
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Seldom does a story bring a tear to this old veterans eyes, this one does.
Here here. You’re not the only one.
Definitely!
She is a woman of God. Why no Nobel Peace Prize for her?
Is that you mom....
Here is a Righteous person.
Good question...son. :)
No, give one to Obama, I think he blew his nose.
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