Poor Chinese boy becomes a man

Posted by: Rick Haynes | January 26, 2009

Poor Chinese boy becomes a man

In the summer of 2000 my wife Joy and I heard from a group of reporters in Kai Fa Qu China, that there was a very poor man and his son living in the mountains of the Zhan He area in the Liao Ming Province. These reporters cried as they talked about this man and his son. The man’s wife had left him after he had a stroke and it was just him and his son Peng Peng. We wanted to meet them so one of the reporters took us up there and we met the man and his son. The man was paralyzed on one side and couldn’t work. They had no food and the house they lived in, had no windows but plastic over the window openings. It was freezing outside and the river near by was frozen. The floor was just dirt.

Peng Peng was about 7 years old and was caring for his father. He gathered wood in the freezing cold for his neighbors to make a little money and he washed his father’s cloths in the freezing river. He also walked 5 miles back and forth to school. When we visited them, we took them some rice and oil and told them we were going to open an orphanage soon and we would hire him to be a guard or something. The man cried as he needed some help.

In about a month we returned to get the man and his son. We noticed he wasn’t limping any more. He had regained his strength on his paralyzed side since we had seen him last. We offered him the job of cooking for the 16 Chinese orphans we had gathered. We paid for Peng Peng”s school and he fit in along with the other kids. He did well in School and they lived there about two years. His father decided to leave one day and took Peng Peng with him.

This is a picture of Peng Peng in 2000.He is the forth child from the front.
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We didn’t see him for a few years and he called and said his father had died and he was working in a bread company. A few years later he called and wanted to join the army and ask if we could help him pay the entrance fee. We gave him the amount and he joined the army. He just got out of the army and called Joy and he still calls her grandma. He came to visit Joy and all the kids. He is a man now and will have no trouble getting a job as the Chinese treat their solders well.

This is a picture of Peng Peng now.