Something uplifting, finally, from the Newspapers, translated…
The Chens who’d opened up a preschool in the Niao-Song District in Kaohsiung, fifteen years ago, because a young boy, Huang, didn’t have enough money to finish his kindergarten years, they’d managed to become involved in the “gift rice” project. This child, accepted their help, gotten all the way through law school in N.T.U., a few years ago, he’d gone to Japan as a foreign exchange student, and, brought back the “Blessed Rice”, as a gift blessed; this rice sparked the desires to help out in Chen, for seven years, the preschool, at the end of the year, would give out these “Blessed Rice” to those in need, to spread the love around the community.
Back in 1999, Chen found, that Andy didn’t show up for school, and visited the family, and found, that the father was laid off, so, he could no longer put his son through school anymore. He’d decided, to let Andy finish his preschool years without any cost.
The Chens became like Andy’s second set of parents, would go to his school, to fight for more resources for him, asked the instructors to look out for him; Andy not only became the first student who was able to test into the Kaohsiung High School from his local middle school, he’d had a smooth ride all the way, to the graduate program in law in N.T.U.
This year, the Vienna Preschool that Chen operated had once again, worked with the local district office, to give out a total of 388 packages of blessed rice to the district’s low-income households, Chen would haul in the packages of rice, while his wife helped handing the packages out, the kids from the kindergarten put on a show, getting involved in passing the kindness out to the locals.
So, it’s, still, amazing, to see how one person’s small act of kindness can have this long-lasting effect on not just the person who’s life s/he had touched, but to many others as well, and that still just shows, that a little kindness, goes, a VERY, VERY, V-E-R-Y, long way!
Life, the Obstacle Course 