Zhao Gaixiang: loving Mother brought up 17 abandoned babies in 22 years

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? Zhao Gaixiang (first from the left in the front row) is playing with the children.

Shijiazhuang, Nov. 7 (Xia Zhenxing) Gorky once said: "all the glory and pride in the world come from the mother." However, there are some children who are abandoned by their parents because of their disabilities. They are unfortunate, but they are lucky. Because they met the "mother" Zhao Gaixiang.

Over the past 22 years, Zhao Gaixiang, a peasant woman in Shuangjing Town, Wei County, Hebei Province, overcame family difficulties and, with the help of society, successively adopted 17 disabled abandoned babies, raised their children through hard work, and gave them love and happiness. Today, the oldest disabled child adopted is 22 years old and the youngest is more than four months old, four of whom are in kindergarten.

On a cold and windy morning in the winter of 1994, 39-year-old Zhao Gaixiang went to Shuangjing Town to go to the market. When she came to a place less than a mile from the market, she found many people gathered. Out of curiosity, she went to the crowd. I heard the onlookers talking: the poor child is so cold that he will freeze to death in the evening. The child was wrapped in a thin blanket on the ground, his face was blue, his breath was so weak that he could not cry.

Zhao Gaixiang panicked and hurriedly picked up the child and sent it to the town's health center. When he learned that the child was a congenital cerebral palsy and the chance of cure was almost 00:00, Zhao Gaixiang said to her hesitant husband, "No matter how disabled the child is, it is also a life." I can't ignore it. If I don't care, I'll feel bad for the rest of my life! " Later, with the approval of the civil affairs department, Zhao Gaixiang carried the child home. She named her child filial piety, hoping that when he grows up, he will be grateful to society and understand filial piety.

? Zhao Gaixiang is breast-feeding the baby.

One day in April 1995, Zhao Gaixiang was on his way home with relatives and picked up a 1-year-old brain-disabled abandoned baby by the side of the road. Because these two children are very young, brain hypoplasia and low body immunity, in order to see the children, she often rides a tricycle to the barefoot doctor's home more than ten kilometers away. The tricycle has been riding for more than ten years.

In this way, from the beginning of picking up and adopting her second child, Zhao Gaixiang came up with the idea of building a nursery. In 2008, she persuaded her husband, who was in business, to take out all the family savings and borrow money from friends and relatives to build a high-standard nursery at his own expense. After the establishment of the nursery, the number of disabled children living here has increased to 10, and there are six babies under the age of 3. In the face of crying babies, Zhao Gaixiang gets up at 5 o'clock every morning, changes diapers and pads for each child, takes turns feeding milk powder and making breakfast. Several children suffered from severe cerebral palsy and almost lost their chewing ability, so she broke the food with a blender and fed the child mouthful. Only after the children have been settled down can she have a bite of her own meal. She can't fall asleep until 12:00 at night.

At the end of 2011, the government department of Wei County set up the county's only children's welfare home in her nursery, where abandoned babies can settle down. At present, the nursery has adopted 17 disabled children. For a mother, the child is the continuation of her own life, and she will devote all her painstaking efforts silently all her life. For Zhao Gaixiang, each of the 17 abandoned babies adopted was a continuation of the old man's life and devoted all his painstaking efforts.

"my greatest wish is to see a few more college students among the children raised in my lifetime!" The 61-year-old Zhao Gaixiang smiled plainly.

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