Hu Tongkai's Children

Chinese Garbage Collector is Adopter of 21 Abandoned Children
Hu Tongkai, a poor garbage collector from Kunming City of China's southwestern Province of Yunan has adopted 21 abandoned children. Hu's life completely changed after he adopted the first abandoned child in 1993. His compassion has touched so many people that strangers are offering to help him one after another. Some parents have also taken back the children they had once abandoned. According to Xinhua website, on the morning of June 16, 1996, Hu Tongkai found a bloody infant girl with her umbilical cord still attached and trembling in a carton when he was sweeping the streets at an intersection in Kunming...

When news of Hu Tongkai's adoptions reached his hometown in Jiangxi Province, none of his family or friends understood him. His younger brother Hu Liangkai even argued with him, suggesting that if he should not adopt abandoned children when he cannot even support himself. In the face of his younger brother's accusations, Hu Tongkai responded, "But this is a life—many people would rather raise pets than adopt [the orphans]. Aren't those little lives more important than pets?"

Indeed. Nice work, Mr. Hu.