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A true story happened in a Heifer project site in Dabie Mountain in Anhui, China
Dialog Between Two Kids
This is an ordinary
village located in
the depth of Dabie
Mountain in
Huoshan County of
Anhui , where the
annual income of a
family is roughly
between RMB
2000-3000 and
living here mainly
depends on tea
growing and raising
of pigs and chicken.
On the afternoon of
Jul 2, 2011, a
visiting group
organized by
Shanghai Haihui
poverty alleviation
program broke the
tranquility of this
remote village,
because this village
had just applied for
aid from Heifer
poverty alleviation
program.
After meeting each
other, some
visitors handed
over some gifts
they prepared for
the villagers,
including some
children books,
which were soon
distributed.
People barely
noticed that a boy
at about 6 or 7
didn’t go home
after receiving his
gift. Instead he
became wholly
enraptured with the
book, crouched by
the side of the road
with his nose in it!
Another little boy at
the age of 4 from the
visiting group came
to his side. The two
boys started to chat.
The younger boy:
What are you
reading?
The elder boy: “The
chick smiled
contently”...
The younger boy: No,
it should be, “the
chicken smiled
contentedly”…
The elder boy
concurred: Mmm…
The younger boy: Do you like this grass?
The elder boy: No,.
The younger boy: I have this book too. I also have “bunny’s trip”, “A little tadpole’s trip to look for her mother…”
The elder boy: I have them too…
The younger boy: The chick’s mom has got a scarf. My mom’s got one too…
The elder boy: My mom has one too…
“A-Qiang, other
kids all have
moms. Where’s
yours?”
a local woman said
when passing by
the boys.
After the woman
left, the elder boy
turned around and
made no more
responses to the
younger boy’s
endless noises.
Is A-Qiang an
orphan?
Yes. And no.
His mother left the
family soon after his
birth. His father had
moved to a big city
and was said to be
married again. Now
A-Qiang is living with
his grand parents,
who were old and
sick..
So A-Qiang’s parents
are both still alive.
But A-Qiang is an
orphan.
What kind of force is so powerful, that can break love and bond between mother and child?
Is it poverty? Or deficiency?
I do not think so.
I think only ultimate desperateness for life and future can do.
Let us think:
What can we realistically do?
Donate books? He has them. Donate money? It'll run out sooner or
later.Get him out off the mountain and set him
up with a good life in the city? Yes, we can. But how many?
Support him to go to university until his fate is fundamentally changed? Yes, we can. But how can you erase the scars of a broken childhood?
Let the thinking continue…
By providing livestock and invaluable skills; we are providing a living instead of temporary supply. As the saying goes: If you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, he'll never go hungry.
Living means hope. So that the mothers do not have to fear for life or future.
Living means dignity. So that the fathers do not have to leave the families for big cities.
Heifer Projects Can Help
We wish every kid a childhood they deserve.
P.S.: The aid that
the village
applies for is to
receive pig
offspring from
the neighboring
Heifer-aided
communities as
a business to
grow by
themselves,
instead of
additional
material or
monetary
donations.
Not a Cup But a Cow to End PovertyHeifer China- Haihui
www.HeiferChina.org
Join us as a Volunteer to help the needed.Phone : 021- 33130859 ( Shanghai ) 028- 85373997 ( Chengdu )E-mail : [email protected]