With barely enough income, she has managed to raise dozens of orphaned children with most of them mentally or physically handicapped. 49 year old Yanping married at the age of 21, and just when she had her first baby boy, her husband found an infant at their doorstep. This child suffered from certain deformities, and this encouraged the lovely couple to take the child in and raise it as their own.
But their income did not allow them to cater for two kids, which led them to take a heart breaking and sacrificing decision. They decided to give their healthy biological son up for adoption because no body would want to take home their adopted son who was partially handicapped. Although not every body understood or approved of this decision, but this did not stop her from continuing her noble quest towards humanity.
Things fell apart when her husband passed away seven years ago, leaving her in a rather difficult situation with 13 kids and half income. Other than financial difficulties, she had 13 children who were to be fed, bathed and changed...single handedly; not once did she consider giving up any of her children.
Although she received help from fellow villagers, grants from Chinese authorities and some good people who occasionally helped the lady out and contributed in helping her raise those beautiful kids.
Today she has 14 people living in her 40 square-meter country house. She spends 20 yuan ($3) on meat every month with cabbage as the dish-of-the-house. Her 29-inch TV is perhaps the most valuable thing in her house, other than a small television. This incredible women has been through a lot of hardships, but that one word that makes it worth-it is 'mother' she says, that gratifying feeling when your children run up to you wipes away everything else. And she has had 80 children looking up to her.
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