In the Yaopu village (瑶圃村) of Shanxi province's Xiaoyi city (孝义市), a local widow has served as a one-woman orphanage, having adopted 80 orphans and disabled children over the course of 22 years. The widow, 49-year-old Li Yanping (李艳萍), subsists on a meager income, and lives inside a 40 square meter country-style yard home with 13 children who call her 'Mother'. more ›

Some friends from an orphanage visit with BEAN Shanghai. more ›

...two abandoned conjoined twin girls who will undergo separation surgery tomorrow at Shanghai Children's Hospital. Six-month-old Sui Jianshuang and Sui Jianlian are connected from the chest bone to the stomach for 15cm. They share a liver, but each has her own heart, lungs, kidneys and digestive system, making the chances of surviving a separation surgery better. The girls were abandoned outside an orphanage in Guangdong province, which then contacted Shanghai Children's Hospital about the possibility of surgery late last month. The hospital agreed to take on the case, and have also issued a country-wide alert for the parents to come forward. "We want their parents to show up so they can have a real family," a hospital official said. Awwwww! Source: Shanghai Daily more ›