Chinese man turns old factory into school and shelter for ‘orphans’; lives on leftover food
Facility built on personal savings and love raises hundreds of deprived youngsters, many of whom grow up to attend university
A Chinese man who used his savings to support a free shelter for 348 “orphans” over the past 17 years has moved many people online.
Huang Meisheng, 65, founded De Ren Garden, a house for orphans and children who do not receive proper care from their families, in 2008 in Fenyi County, Jiangxi province, eastern China.
Huang became a teacher at 20 and a secondary school headmaster 10 years later.
At the age of 40, he became the deputy director of Fenyi Education Bureau and headmaster of a local primary school.
He said he was motivated to establish De Ren Garden after noticing that many of his students were in reality orphans, as their parents were not available to look after them, even if they were still alive.