Who can help this helpless and homeless lady?
I sent this email to Shanghai Daily, but don't know what will happen.
I came across this lady few months ago, it was a sulky afternoon, the lady sat at the doorstep of Anyuan Road, in shabby but relatively clean clothes, in her arms, there was a little kitty, she wrapped her with a plastic bag and fed her with left-over milk which she picked from nearby dustbin. I stopped to stroke the
kitty's fur, and naturally began the talk. She said that she found the Kitty at
roadside, sick and nearly dead, she tried to save her. By her attentive care, the Kitty refreshed herself, and began to play naughty at the time, she pretended to be a bit angry, and said if she kept playing naughty this way, she had no ability to take care of her, and would drop her out at where she found her. My tears uncontrollablly welled up, and down to my cheeks. I asked what she was doing
in Shanghai, I noticed all she had was a cloth bag. She hesitated and replied she was on her way home, but I sensed a bit uneasiness inside her.
Few minutes later, when I came out of the fruit store, the lady was gone, but I
found a feeble figure moving on 20 meters ahead of me, with her cloth bag on shoulder, one hand with a crutch, the other with a plastic bag, inside was the Kitty, She stopped by at the dustbin and picked one mineral water bottle. I was mad
at heart, I was deeply moved and extremely sad at the scene, how come a lady in
this situation still keeps a loving heart? I was crying like a kid on the street, with undelivered bread and milk at my hand, I was a bit afraid to hurt her feeling, and the key point was when I bought the staff, out of the store, I could
not find her any more.
3 months went by quietly, I gradually forgot her, but yesterday I saw her again,
sleeping under roof nearby my living place. I gathered my gut to say hello to her, she sat up immediately, staring at me with numb expression, and keeping silent to my questions until I asked how was that Kitty, she recollected herself and
began the conversation, she said she remembered that day I was stroking the kitty, and cried. She was from Gansu province, and both of her parents were died when she was born, she lived with her grandmother till she was 10 year old, on that year her grandmother died, the government helped her finish her Junior School
, but when she was a grown-up, she should depend on herself, and due to her physical condition, she could not find a job.
All those years, she came from one place to another, she's been in Shanghai for
nearly 2 years, depending on the smelly food others dropped away, and she had no
fixed living place, just on street, from one to the other, on rainy days or snowy days. I could not help asking, how she tided over last winter, it was so icy,
and she was with little staff to keep herself warm, but she just said she survived. When I first gave her a bag of apples, she just pushed away, when we finished the talk, she still requested me to bring this back, but finally she accepted
and sincerely thanked me.
On my way back, I felt really bad, she has no food, no roof, no land in her hometown, no one to talk with, but she still has, a caring heart, for the Kitty, she
still keeps her dignity and does her utmost to keep herself clean. Today I planned to talk with her, and sharing some biscuits with her, but I could not find
her in the same place. I know some food can not fundamentally solve her problem,
and I don't know how to better her life, since I myself am a humble figure in Shanghai, it is not very easy for me to keep food and roof on my head. But once I
think the winter is just around the corner, I couldn't stop my sad feeling for
her. How come the lady is still living in this way? And what is her inner strength to support her going through all of this? What is her expectation for life?
I hope whoever has the ability and heart to think over a way to make this caring
lady can feel a bit warm to this world in her limited life, maybe just enough healthy food and a simple shelter, maybe she can work for herself, but she needs
the opportunity.
Sincerely thanks.
Sandy
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