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The truly inspiring story of the Chinese rubbish collector who saved and raised THIRTY babies abandoned at the roadside

A woman has been hailed a hero after details of her astonishing work with abandoned children has emerged.

Lou Xiaoying, now 88 and suffering from kidney failure, found and raised more than 30 abandoned Chinese babies from the streets of Jinhua, in the eastern Zhejiang province where she managed to make a living by recycling rubbish.

She and her late husband Li Zin, who died 17 years ago, kept four of the children and passed the others onto friends and family to start new lives.

Her youngest son Zhang Qilin - now aged just seven - was found in a dustbin by Lou when she was 82.

‘Even though I was already getting old I could not simply ignore the baby and leave him to die in the trash. He looked so sweet and so needy. I had to take him home with me,’ she said.

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lumicomet

Why doesn’t this have more notes? This woman is nothing short of an angel. She has so little and gives so much, and organizations such as the government and school systems won’t do anything for this cause. I am at loss of words at this lady’s sacrifice.

vivalaliberty

The Chinese government is the reason there are so many abandoned babies in the first place. Their child laws and terrible economic policies create poverty and force parents to abandon their children, either because they are too poor to raise them or because they already have a child.