Garbage Pail Kids: 88-year-old Chinese rubbish collecter rescues and raises abandoned children

[Ricaaado]

Yes, it's late (July 30th, 2012.) No, I don't care.

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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.
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[b]Don't be dense, read the article.[/b]

[url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181017/Lou-Xiaoying-Story-Chinese-woman-saved-30-abandoned-babies-dumped-street-trash.html]Source[/url]

[Zerohope]

Holy shit.
Having a heart of gold doesn't even begin to describe this woman.
And something tells me that being a trash collector doesn't really mean shitloads o' cash..
If there was anyone who were to represent the human race, she would be the one.

Looking at her picture over and over, I keep thinking she must have had a really tough life..

Which begs the question: Why is it the ones with the really tough lives tend to be the most kind?
Granted, this is not "set-in-stone" as there will always be assholes, but still.. The really kind ones, always tend to have had every odds against them.

[inaba]

This is the kind of person who there should be more of
The more I read the more amazed I got, she is a modernday hero.

[_maverick_]

[Quote] and suffering from kidney failure [/Quote] So where is the donate button? Honestly i hope everything went well for her seen as it's a year late, After reading all these other horrible news articales about kidnapping and rape and stuff.it warms your heart to read stuff like this.

[Caynug]

This makes me wonder how often babies end up in trashbins... she found many of these still living kids/babys in those.

[ironman17]

Now that's a hero of the modern age; in a world where the one-child policy results in some folks trying to cheat the system by discarding unwanted children, an elderly recycler takes care of the ones left behind. It's moments like these that restore my faith in humanity, even if I lose it again a few days later.

It's a shame she's dying, though, but that's unfortunately how life works at the moment.

[Whiterfire]

[QUOTE=TAU!;42085689]Yes, it's late (July 30th, 2012.) No, I don't care.

[b]Don't be dense, read the article.[/b]

[url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181017/Lou-Xiaoying-Story-Chinese-woman-saved-30-abandoned-babies-dumped-street-trash.html]Source[/url][/QUOTE]

50 years from now this picture will be in museums