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Here are some of the children whose lives have been transformed by generous supporters of Golden Courage:
JinYong (Golden Courage)
When JinYong’s mother became too ill to care for herself, the young girl told her mother that she wanted to quit school for a while,
but assured her that she would return after [her mother] and her HIV+ brother got better.
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Li
Li's smile radiates hope, despite her situation. Li's parents have full-blown
AIDS, having sold their blood in the early 1990s to pay bills.
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Kongbo
Kongbo, 9, is the youngest of four and a 1st grader in Henan Province. Both of his parents were infected.
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Miaomiao
Miaomiao, 9, is in 3rd grade and has three younger siblings. Both of her parents contracted… and her mother has died from the disease.
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Long
Long is a 12-year-old 4th grader and the youngest of three children. Both of her parents were infected with HIV.
Her father, a tricycle driver, has difficulty working.
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Mengmeng
Mengmeng, 15, and her younger brother are currently under the care of their
elderly grandfather, who suffers from severe edema.
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Yingying
Yingying is 9 years old and her entire family is HIV+ – both parents and her younger brother.
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Zhang Xia Yi (Endurance and Revenge)
At the time of the first interview, Yi was an orphan whose father, mother, three-year-old sister,
and two uncles' entire families had all died from AIDS.
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Giant Spirit
Giant Spirit's mother took a job in a nearby mine, only to be injured seriously in a cave-in. She now walks with a severe limp and is unable to work in the fields or in the mines.
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Home Alone
Home Alone lived his early years with his mother, father and older sister in a poor village outside of Beijing. They were extremely poor, so in the late 1990s, his father made some extra money selling blood to a Beijing blood bank.
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Silent Brother & Joyful Sister
In the late 1990s, a five-year-old boy and his 10-month-old sister lived with their father, who was a miner, and their mother, who was mentally unstable, by some accounts. They lived in extreme poverty in a village outside of Beijing.
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Timid Boy
Before Timid Boy was born, his father, who was mentally unstable, vanished without a trace. His pregnant wife fled to live with her widowed mother and her brother, who was the town bully.
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Winter Plum
Winter Plum is a 10-year-old girl who entered fourth grade in September 2006. She is mild-mannered, very attractive and an A student. She also has a beautiful singing voice.
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