A good deed is done, only if you expect nothing back.

It is almost easy to say present society have long fallen into a cauldron of hate. anger and complication. There are ills and cries of unjust, indiscriminate hate, a rampant virus that spreads across the papers we read to the streets we walk. For every devil’s misdeed, I like to believe there is still an equally goodness and graciousness among us. An inspiration for immoral people like myself, to have a real sense of hope and faith, or like what people always say - a beacon of light.

A person who guides their life around the simple values of what is right, what is wrong. Righteousness. Nothing should blur it.

Gov’t rewards kindly scrap collector with hukou - March 23, 2007

For Yao Yide, abandoning a baby is tantamount to taking a life. “Theirs are lives that I cannot give up,” said Yao.

Despite the financial strain, Yao, 53, and his wife, who make a living by collecting scraps and doing odd jobs, have adopted 14 abandoned baby girls in Chengmai County, Hainan Province, over the past 18 years. Touched by Yao’s compassion and magnanimity, the Chengmai County government granted a hukou, or household registration, to Yao and his wife, who came to the county from Central China’s Henan Province 18 year ago.

The county government and the government of Fushan Township have raised funds to build a new house for the couple and their adopted daughters. Work on the two-storey house should be completed soon. Yao was moved to tears as he stood before the site where his new home was taking shape over the weekend.

“As a man who earns his keep by picking up waste, it never crossed my mind that I might be able to live in such a good house,” Xinhua quoted Yao as saying.

He described the joy and grief that have defined his life in the past years to local media. Yao and his wife are accustomed to living from hand to mouth, but that did not stop them from adopting the abandoned baby girls they found in local streets. Baby girls are often abandoned because of the traditional preference for male children. “They are living beings,” said Yao, who added that he could not leave a child to die in the street.

Things started to turn around after Yao’s deeds were reported by local media in January 2006. News of Yao’s efforts to care for the abandoned children caught the public imagination. Support for the couple started to trickle in from the community. Many local residents have donated rice, noodles, cooking oil, quilts, color TV sets, washing machines, computers and other goods to Yao and his family.

“In addition to granting our hukou and building us a new house, the Fushan Township government has also waived tuition fees for all of my adopted daughters,” Yao said. “I have nothing to worry about. What I expect now is that my daughters will study hard and do well in school,” he added. He said he hoped his family, which has survived for so long off the scraps that other people had thrown away, would soon have a university student.

Source: China Daily

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