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Q: do you know of some good things foreigner do in China?

Since I can't post this in that useless forum section let's try it this way
I recently heard about a wonderful lady that cares for orphaned Chinese children in China
Can anybody else give a examples like this one I have put here?
In China of course
This is now a question in relation to China
I have not used bad words or pointed out peoples short commingings

Touched by an angel

Touched by an angel
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ALEX CULLEN: Linda Shum is one very cool grandma. An Australian angel saving China's forgotten orphans. She's the reason why Fu Yang is living the American dream. It was 1999 when a chance meeting in a rundown orphanage changed both their lives. Tonight, her remarkable story and the reunion, 15 years in the making. Who is Fu Yang?

LINDA: Fu Yang, when he was a little fellow, he was in a circus, and they used him as the monkey because he had a deformed face. And he came into the orphanage because the circus no longer wanted him because he got too big. And I met him when he was about 10 years old.

ALEX: A mother of three, Linda, and her husband, Greg, were on their first trip to China when, at this rundown orphanage, they came face-to-face with the reality of China's one child policy.

LINDA: He was a delightful little boy. He has Down syndrome. He's about four.

ALEX: Children abandoned by their parents because they were either born a girl or born disabled. What were you confronted with when you first saw a state-run orphanage?

LINDA: Poverty. Abject poverty. Degradation, filth, sadness. children rocking for self-stimulation. Blind children sitting by the wall.

ALEX: Were they tied to their chairs?

LINDA: Some of them were tied, yes. She tied the children to chairs to keep them in better control. My heart just melted.

ALEX: What sticks in your memory about that first time you came to China?

LINDA: There was a little baby with spina bifida and we called him Moses because he came in a basket. He was very severe - there was no chance for him to live but I remember holding him and my heart broke. And I thought "This is my calling. This is where I should be." And even if he dies, he's better off to die in my arms than to die alone without any love. Just wanted to be touched.

ALEX: Does it have anything to do with the one-child policy because they only have really one chance of having a healthy, happy child?

LINDA: They do. And if you have one child, you have to have a perfect child.

ALEX: Introduced in 1979, China's one-child policy is the government's way of maintaining a low birth rate in a country bursting with people. If that one child is born disabled, parents are known to abandon them. Most famously, most recently, was this abandoned baby rescued after being flushed down a drainpipe in a Chinese apartment block. Trapped but alive, it took rescuers two hours to cut him free. His young mum had been unable to cope after the father of her baby refused to offer any financial support. What's going through a parents' mind to leave their child, their kid, at the shopping centre or a train station and walk away and not come back?

LINDA: I think it breaks the mothers' hearts. And we have women who haunt orphanages. They're looking around at all the cots, they're looking around at all the beds, they're looking around at the children and they've got what I call empty arm syndrome - they're missing that child and it's broken their hearts.

ALEX: Linda is a mother of three, grandmother of nine. She and Greg married in 1970 and settled in Gympie in Queensland. She was a primary school teacher, he was a principal who was looking forward to retirement until Linda told him their life's work had only just begun.

LINDA: He became my greatest fan, my greatest support, my greatest advocate.

ALEX: They raised enough money and used most of their savings to build their first home for Chinese orphans. But two weeks before it was due to open, Greg suffered a stroke and died. It was December 1, 2006.

LINDA: I loved Greg with my whole being, I still do but my love's work for him is done. Now look what you've made me do!

ALEX: Then, last year, Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer, had a double mastectomy. She recovered in Australia, returned to China. There are just too many kids needing her love. How much of your own money goes towards this?

LINDA: Oh, quite a lot. When Greg died, he left an insurance policy that I didn't know we had and it was for $50,000.

ALEX: Linda used the money to buy two more apartments to house more children. She now runs eight homes, cares for 61 children, most of them disabled and discarded. These lucky, lovely kids get a roof over their heads, have their education funded but most of all, are smothered with love. And the starting point for all this was that day 14 years ago when Linda met an orphaned boy called Fu Yang which, in Chinese, means 'lucky lamb'.

LINDA: He was the most generous child, the most generous person I ever met. In fact, he used to climb over the wall after dark, of the orphanage, and go out to the market and nick stuff and bring it in and by morning,everybody'd have enough to eat.

ALEX: Fu Yang was born deaf and without cheekbones. Linda had yet to open one of her homes. So, for the next four years, she paid for his care, food, and education. Then, Lucky Lamb got very lucky - an American charity offered life-changing surgery in the States. Linda was thrilled. Meanwhile, in Texas, Dinah DeLuca had just told her photographer husband that they'd been asked to visit their local hospital and cheer up a lonely little boy.

LOUIS: Dinah kind of looked at me and goes "He's a orphan." Like, "Take an hour out of your busy day and go help an orphan." And I'm like (SIGHS) "OK", you know, and kind of begrudgingly went.

ALEX: And then they met.
LOUIS: But when we started to interact, there was a connection there that I didn't anticipate.

ALEX: Although Fu Yang was still profoundly deaf and could speak no English, it didn't matter.

LOUIS: It was almost like we communicated, you know, with minds instead of verbal.

ALEX: Over the next year, Fu had four operations to rebuild his face. Louis and Dinah rarely left his bedside. They would become his host family during his American stay.

LOUIS: When he came out of surgery, when he had his first surgery where his face was swollen and he couldn't open his eyes, I told him to feel for my arm and he feels that hairy arm that he knows that's me there, you know, just sitting with him.

DINAH: He has plenty of reasons to feel sorry for himself but I've never seen him be that way.

ALEX: Once did Dinah and Louis ever see this brave boy cry. It was after his last operation and sitting on their staircase, he was inconsolable because he knew his time had come to return to an orphanage in China.

DINAH: We went to bed, Louis was kind of like "Oh, what do you think?" And I'm like "All I know is... I don't know what we're supposed to do but that little boy cannot go back to China." And so, that is what started it.

ALEX: So they adopted him.

LOUIS: Got the OK from her.

ALEX: Dinah's 15-year-old son Jade was now his loving big brother. Fu became a mischievous young American boy. He started school. He learned to ride a bike. He graduated high school and made lifelong friends. Only now did they learn how Fu came to be abandoned. His mum was a plate spinner in a travelling circus. His dad was the circus security guard. When Fu was five, his father discarded him. What happened?

LOUIS: His dad woke him up at night...and led him out to the edge of a wooded area and said "Go. Don't come back. Don't tell anybody about who you are. If they ask you a question, just say 'I don't know' and just go."

ALEX: How much do you want to see him again?

LINDA: Oh, it's immeasurable, you know. He's just a very special boy.

ALEX: We're in Jiaozhou..home to 4 million people. Here, you're at home, huh?

LINDA: I think you know where you belong.

ALEX: So, here we are. Look at this! And these are some of the kids Linda has saved. Technically, she is the legal guardian or mother to 61 children and rising.

LINDA: They're legally ours. We sign a contract for each one and we have absolute responsibility for everything it takes to raise that child. The children call me 'Nai Nai'. It means 'grandma' in Chinese. And I think they know how much I love them.

ALEX: It's that love that these children miss out on in the state-run orphanages, like this one in downtown Jiaozhou. Inside, it was modern, clean and heartbreaking. Over 200 children live here, including this healthy baby boy born without a left hand. I wonder where you're going to end up. I left feeling so sad - yet, it has to be acknowledged that conditions were light years better than the kind of place Linda first saw. If those conditions have improved and those kids are surviving, is there a need for someone like yourself then to come in there?

LINDA: Conditions have improved a lot. Children are surviving now that wouldn't have survived before - however, there are still pockets of ignorance where cruelty still happens out of neglect.

ALEX: And most neglected are China's disabled children, for whom there is still a great stigma. So, today, Linda is to the rescue. On her trusty 3-wheeler, she is on her way to collect two boys from the local state orphanage. One is three and the other, two years old with a cleft palate. The director of the orphanage asked for Linda's help.

LINDA: You hold that baby and, instantly, you love that child. This is your new home.

ALEX: They are welcomed like family but no-one is happier than Linda.

LINDA: It's the most magic feeling in the world. It's like giving birth, only it doesn't hurt quite as much. Instantly, you love that child, and I will walk to hell and back for every child in my care.

ALEX: It doesn't matter if they have spina bifida or cerebral palsy, disability is not a difficulty for Linda. All are welcome in her homes.

LOUIS: We are inspired by Linda. What better could you do with your life than to leave a legacy of kids who would not be where they are if it wasn't for you setting part of your life aside to help them. I mean, what a wonderful legacy.

ALEX: Back in Texas, carving his own legacy is Fu. He's now 21..and like his adoptive dad, he's a photographer...and he is impressing everyone with his talent...especially the ladies. Here are a few more of his shots. The story is miraculous, and when there's a miraculous story, there's always a good ending. And what better ending than this? 10 years since Fu left China, we have brought Linda to Dallas and guess who's waiting? But that wasn't all. We've got one more little surprise for you, Linda. Also here, three more orphans Linda help find new families for in America... one of them named after her late husband.

LOUIS: Everybody smiling. It looks like a big, happy family.

ALEX: Well, what would you be doing if you weren't doing this?

LINDA: I don't know, but I think some people go fishing and play golf and do those things but I've never wanted to do that. And, so, this is what I want to do.

ALEX: Yeah, you save abandoned children in China.
LINDA: Yeah, just, it's my hobby.
So does this comply?

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that's such a long question

no time to read all that...sorry

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Great story Phil,. Glad to see foreigners helping out in China where the Chinese government refuses to. I am just afraid that now it has received attention, the government will insist it stops.

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That is why I am telling Australian media about how gutless Chinese are and that the money we spend just makes the fat cats richer and the poor stay at slave level
I would be happy to cut trade with china and go back to Japan or India
I will not be going back to china unless it is with the Army

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Why did the previous thread get deleted?

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Better put in your order for flash lights while we can? I can get 40 now.

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You're ready for blackout or two...!surprise

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