Chinese widow cares for disabled neighbour for over three decades
Widow Wu Yuxia has cared for her deaf and blind neighbour for three decades and says she does not regret a day of it
Wu Yuxia might not be the richest woman in China, but she could well be one of the kindest.
For more than three decades, the 60-year-old from Dangui in southwestern Sichuan province has provided round-the-clock care to her severely disabled neighbour, Liu Siqiang, the news website Thecover.cn reported.
Liu, now 56, lost his mother at the age of six and his father at 10. While still a teenager he contracted a disease that left him blind and deaf, and although he came from a large family, he was left alone when his older brother died and his three sisters got married and moved away, the report said.
Realising Liu needed someone to care for him, Wu took him under her wing.
“We were poor at the time, but his house nearby was just a few mud rooms,” she was quoted as saying.
For about 20 years, Wu cared for Liu in his own home, but about 10 years ago, she and her husband built a small extension to their own humble property so he could move in with them.