source: the author of the new Beijing newspaper: Ho Guang
shepherd land children village, Bei Tian shepherd holding Josiah and Robert (right), Cody (left) on one side Hold the chair.
staff Sara sent a telescope to Li Rui (a wheelchair man) on his birthday.
children's village in Shepherd land, after the amusement park is a rehabilitation and Skill Center for the lack of money.
in the southwestern corner of the village canteen of the Tianjin shepherd children village, a piano side faces the gate. The young girl, Su won carefully open the lid of the piano, and jumps ten fingers. A pleasant Rechard Clayderman's "the wedding in the dream" has gone out, and every night, she will play the piano.
"she plays the piano well, maybe she can be called a master, isn't she?" In fact, she can also use computers and cross stitch, and the 55 year old American, betianmu, praised the little girl and frowned at the same time.
Su has won the lower half of the body, and is 21 years old. According to Chinese law, she can't be adopted by a loving family at the age of 14, but she needs to teach her to feed herself. It's hard for her to find her job.
20 years ago, the American came to China with his wife, penimla, from adopting an orphan to setting up an adoption center. The couple finally built a home for Chinese orphaned children at the junction of Langfang and Tianjin Wuqing, 70 kilometers from Beijing. This was the place where the local people herd sheep, and the children's village of the shepherd land was named after that.
now, he has worked from hundreds of Chinese abandoned children of an American citizen and helped more than 3000 Chinese abandoned children undergo surgery. Recently, his deeds became popular on the Internet, known as the new era of Bethune, for a real understanding, the reporter walked into his shepherd's children's village.
[b] betianmu and "Lambs" [/b]
are in a quiet and relatively remote town of Wang Gu Zhuang, and children's villages are not conspicuous. This is a quiet courtyard without any sign. The only door sign says No. 26 Jinyuan Road.
betian Mu is happy to bring every visitor to visit his children's village.
as long as they are at home, Bei Tian Mu will go to the huts every day to talk with children, speak and hug the children. The man wearing black frame glasses, beard and grimy face, was kindly called "Tim dad" by hundreds of children in the village. Tim Baker is his English name.
he was impressed by most of the children here. He especially liked a little girl named Yang Yang who had hydrocephalus.
"she's always joking with me. I told her, I love you, but she won't say I love you like any other child. She will say, I don't love you," betian relishes Yu Yangyang's jokes.
among hundreds of children raised here, there are a large number of children with cleft lip and palate, congenital heart disease, mental retardation and cerebral palsy. More than 95% of the children sent to the children are discarded by their parents because of their physical defects or disabilities, and the disease is easy to lose their lives.
betian clearly remembered a child from Baoding, Hebei, who had been sent to welfare home for only 3 months, but under the care of the children's village aunt, Xiao Li had lived for more than three years, but the child died after the 61 festival in 2005, and all the people in the village cried.
over the past 13 years, children's villages have lost 10 children. Most of these children are in the late stages of life when they are sent to children's villages.
however, the children who survived have shown amazing vitality.
3 years old Xiao Xin Ling, born with missing limbs, can now use one of her limbs to hold a book, and another amputation can easily open the book and look at the illustrations inside. She played the glass ball herself, picked up the ball with two broken limbs, lay down side by side, and rolled over with her own body, holding the glass ball in her chest, and appreciating the flower color in the glass ball.
no one knows how she learned, and even her aunt who took care of her every day was surprised.