Starry love lightens orphans' hearts
Starry love lightens orphans' hearts
09:59, November 08, 2009 
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"Her name is Dang Yiyi, and she is our Chinese gem," is how Frenchwoman Amelie always introduces her adopted Chinese daughter to guests.
Dang, born in Taiyuan city in central China three years ago, was abandoned by her parents apparently due to her congenital harelip and cleft palate.
Amelie and husband Gael, took Dang to Paris and adopted her in December 2008.
Amelie has written more than 230 posts in her Internet blog about the daily life of Dang, whose French name is Abigail. The stories tell about the changes in Dang, from her yelling at night for "Grandpa" to her comfortable sleep with her French sister, and from her feelings of strangeness toward her French parents to her familiarity with them now, among others.
Dang, who is unfortunate but also fortunate, is among the more than 100,000 children in the world adopted across borders. Many compassionate people, communities and international organizations globally are sparing no efforts in finding proper homes for orphans or abandoned children.
Children are the most gentle flowers on earth, whose blossoming will bring more aroma to the world. However, many of these orphans, despite possessing the same innocence and beauty as other children, have weathered hardships and tests in their life.
Nguyen Thi Mai Lien was deserted right after her birth. Someone found her in a box in suburban Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital, and brought her to the SOS Children's Village in eastern Hanoi.
Lien lives there with seven brothers and sisters in a house with Mother Nguyen Thi Mai.
Her home is a typical Vietnamese-style two-storeyed house. There are 16 houses like Lien's and 16 mothers like Nguyen Thi Maiin the village.
The SOS Kinderdorf International is the biggest financial supporter for the village, providing 95 percent of its annual expenditures, equivalent to about 200,000 U.S. dollars. Other financial sources are Vietnamese agencies, and domestic and foreign donors.
There are now 200 children living in the village, the majority of whom are orphans.
The seed of love will sprout in a child's heart, grow with sunshine, rain and dew, and yield fruits. The fruits then will spread new seeds to a far distance.
The seed apparently has shot up in Lien's heart. Now a grade-5 pupil, she wrote in her dairy, "I want to become a pediatrician when I grow up. Then, I could relieve the pains of a lot of children including orphans like me."
Lili, 15, lives in the "Sunshine Homeland," a welfare organization sheltering 132 orphans in Shangcai County of central China's Henan Province.
Eight years ago, Lili lost her parents, who were infected by HIV when selling their blood and then died with AIDS.
Lili, who is learning to play piano, an experience not common to children in Chinese villages, leads rather a happy, or at least steady, life in the "Sunshine Homeland."
When visiting the Homeland in November 2007, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said, "The land is always bright and the sun will always rise. We should make the world, society and children's hearts filled with sunshine."
According to the UN Children's Fund, some 160 million children under 15 will have no parents or only one parent in 2010 worldwide. Among them, some 25 million were orphaned as a result of AIDS. It is essential for governments of every country to strengthen care and fostering for orphans at an institutional level to solve this problem.
A children's aid center in the southwestern suburbs of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh accomodates more than 160 handicapped children, the majority of whom are orphans or abandoned by their parents.
Sela, 15, one of the children in the center, has a smiling face. Every day after school, the first words he speaks to his fostering mother is: "Mum, I've come back." Sela was born with HIV, and his parents were killed by AIDS.
A hard childhood is a tough experience for orphans, but the orphans overcoming the hardship will have more courage and confidence in their future life.
It is human being's shared responsibility to give a normal life to orphans, bring the warmth of a home to them, and encourage them to pursue their dreams.
Amelie and Gael say Dang is the most precious gift they ever have been endowed with.
Amelie said, "We feel even happier when we see her happy and smiling face than when we see she has grown 10 cm in the past 10 months."
Source:Xinhua
Dang, born in Taiyuan city in central China three years ago, was abandoned by her parents apparently due to her congenital harelip and cleft palate.
Amelie and husband Gael, took Dang to Paris and adopted her in December 2008.
Amelie has written more than 230 posts in her Internet blog about the daily life of Dang, whose French name is Abigail. The stories tell about the changes in Dang, from her yelling at night for "Grandpa" to her comfortable sleep with her French sister, and from her feelings of strangeness toward her French parents to her familiarity with them now, among others.
Dang, who is unfortunate but also fortunate, is among the more than 100,000 children in the world adopted across borders. Many compassionate people, communities and international organizations globally are sparing no efforts in finding proper homes for orphans or abandoned children.
Children are the most gentle flowers on earth, whose blossoming will bring more aroma to the world. However, many of these orphans, despite possessing the same innocence and beauty as other children, have weathered hardships and tests in their life.
Nguyen Thi Mai Lien was deserted right after her birth. Someone found her in a box in suburban Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital, and brought her to the SOS Children's Village in eastern Hanoi.
Lien lives there with seven brothers and sisters in a house with Mother Nguyen Thi Mai.
Her home is a typical Vietnamese-style two-storeyed house. There are 16 houses like Lien's and 16 mothers like Nguyen Thi Maiin the village.
The SOS Kinderdorf International is the biggest financial supporter for the village, providing 95 percent of its annual expenditures, equivalent to about 200,000 U.S. dollars. Other financial sources are Vietnamese agencies, and domestic and foreign donors.
There are now 200 children living in the village, the majority of whom are orphans.
The seed of love will sprout in a child's heart, grow with sunshine, rain and dew, and yield fruits. The fruits then will spread new seeds to a far distance.
The seed apparently has shot up in Lien's heart. Now a grade-5 pupil, she wrote in her dairy, "I want to become a pediatrician when I grow up. Then, I could relieve the pains of a lot of children including orphans like me."
Lili, 15, lives in the "Sunshine Homeland," a welfare organization sheltering 132 orphans in Shangcai County of central China's Henan Province.
Eight years ago, Lili lost her parents, who were infected by HIV when selling their blood and then died with AIDS.
Lili, who is learning to play piano, an experience not common to children in Chinese villages, leads rather a happy, or at least steady, life in the "Sunshine Homeland."
When visiting the Homeland in November 2007, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said, "The land is always bright and the sun will always rise. We should make the world, society and children's hearts filled with sunshine."
According to the UN Children's Fund, some 160 million children under 15 will have no parents or only one parent in 2010 worldwide. Among them, some 25 million were orphaned as a result of AIDS. It is essential for governments of every country to strengthen care and fostering for orphans at an institutional level to solve this problem.
A children's aid center in the southwestern suburbs of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh accomodates more than 160 handicapped children, the majority of whom are orphans or abandoned by their parents.
Sela, 15, one of the children in the center, has a smiling face. Every day after school, the first words he speaks to his fostering mother is: "Mum, I've come back." Sela was born with HIV, and his parents were killed by AIDS.
A hard childhood is a tough experience for orphans, but the orphans overcoming the hardship will have more courage and confidence in their future life.
It is human being's shared responsibility to give a normal life to orphans, bring the warmth of a home to them, and encourage them to pursue their dreams.
Amelie and Gael say Dang is the most precious gift they ever have been endowed with.
Amelie said, "We feel even happier when we see her happy and smiling face than when we see she has grown 10 cm in the past 10 months."
Source:Xinhua
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