2020-12-18 07:35:22 GMT2020-12-18 15:35:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Xinhua writer Chu Yi
FUZHOU, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) It took Jiang Hua years to find a way out of darkness, but he has spent his whole life working to bring light to others. I found myself unable to see words clearly in books in primary school, and when I was 14, my world fell into complete darkness due to glaucoma, said 39-year-old Jiang, a native of Yangyuan, a mountainous village in the city of Sanming, east China s Fujian Province.
Medical treatment can prevent the disease from leading to complete vision loss, however, Jiang s family was too poor to afford even matches costing 0.50 yuan (about 8 U.S. cents), let alone timely treatment. Though he performed well in school, he had to drop out in the fourth grade.
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by Xinhua writer Chu Yi
FUZHOU, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) On a remote hill where cattle, sheep and snakes could once be seen in the wild grass, Huang Jinlian has built a school, a safe haven for children with special needs.
In 1991, the land that is now home to the Sanming Special Education School on Qilin Mountain in the city of Sanming, east China s Fujian Province, was uninhabited. The area was full of vegetable plots and livestock herded by farmers, said Huang, 66, who built the city s first special education school from nothing alongside four new graduates majoring in special education.