thankfully

Mr. Ran Shucang, Gansu Province

Career variety in life, as a teacher, I love this industry of forty years, Experienced a lot of unforgettable people and things, but mostly forgotten, but inadvertently due to various reasons or phenomenon and their eyes met, would look like a closed switch motion-picture machine, a frame of a frame of the start of the mind playback related process, especially of new feeling to the deep.

 On the fire site of the 16th Society in the first month of last Spring Festival. Suddenly, Li Pengfei came to me from all over the world to hold my hand and say hello. He was taller than me, so I asked him how he was.
One side of the students interjected: "Pengfei now buy a car!" Then I asked him whether he was a bank loan or borrowing money to buy it. Pengfei looked at me shyly and smiled. After a pause, he said softly that there was no loan. It was my brother and I who worked to save money to buy it.
I was surprised and pleased that the two brothers started to live and study in our dormitory in 2002 and expanded into the Care Action Macao Orphanage in 2007. They were mentally retarded and physically handicapped due to congenital influence. They were among those who were particularly concerned about education. At that time, many people thought that they might have to be supported by others all their lives and had little hope of becoming successful.
In the face of so much talk and pressure, this "special education class" has persisted. The slogan "Help the elderly and the disabled, save the lonely, help the poor, teach without class and become a talented person" is very strong in the background of the sculpture of Mother of the Yellow River, which is always my inscription on education and Mr. Albert Lai. After a long period of patient education and guidance to disabled students, they teach them the skills of self-care in life hand by hand. Although they are slower than normal students to accept and master the skills, they basically have good habits such as hard work and hard work.

The author and Li Pengfei in the construction site photo (2020)
Li Pengfei Paving Marble Steps (2020)
Li Pengfei, a dedicated worker (2020)

Li Pengfei and Li Pengping are two brothers, in the loss of their mother and then the loss of their father's plight, they eat, live, study in the orphanage, can be said that the orphanage is the cradle of their growth, just as Pengfei said that without the Care Action Macao would not have his today. Li Pengfei brothers are just the epitome of the students in the “special education class”.
In the conversation with peng fei, I learned that his main purpose of buying a car is to haul working equipment, not to fool around with ostentational. In these children we see the power and fruits of education and love without limits.
They can have today's self-reliance results, we did not think of, also did not dare to think, even if the general normal students are not as good as him! See them like to see my grandchildren, always ask long short, not only understand the present situation but also mention marriage and other things, hope that Li Pengfei and other children from disbanded “special education class” are all happy, better tomorrow!

I was able to meet Pengfei in Huining County because my son Ran Jun came across Pengfei working on a construction site. I went to meet him and his brother when I heard that. Seeing Pengfei taking about 50 jin (25 kg) of marble and cemented the steps with concrete, he was so skilled that he was able to stand on his own feet. It was a good thing to know.
These two lonely brothers, who lost their parents when they were young, have the ability and harvest to stand on their own two feet today. I couldn't help but admire the flowers of happiness that have been watering down by the government's targeted poverty alleviation, Care Action Macao education fund for students.

"Help the Elderly and the Disabled" slogan (2005)
From right, Li Pengfei and Li Pengping are next to the brothers' car (2020)