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Defeat misery. Create hope
      The fourth year student Hung Chan-Hui of the Department of Economics & Management of Zhongnan Huaihua University was awarded the 2005 First Person to Move China and the 2006 Distinguished Work Medal, and was elected the Goodwill Ambassador for the Soong Ching Ling Foundation. He was born in Hongzhuang Village, Dongxia Township, Xihua County, Henan Province in 1982. Thirteen years ago, his mother left home without saying goodbye.

      He had to take care of a young brother and an abandoned baby girl that his father picked up after his illness. The entire family burden was on the shoulders of this 12-year-old first born son─Hung Chan-Hui. He studied and had to overcome unimaginable difficulties at the same time to take care of his sickness-stricken father and the adopted little sister. He even thought of escaping during the period, but his sense of responsibility eventually kept him going silently without giving up. He further treated the misery as a compulsory lesson in life and became the 2005 First Person to Move China that attracted immediate attention at home and abroad. 

      But he is very modest. He appreciates everyone who had given him support in the last thirteen years, such as the farmer who managed to raise money to treat his ill father; teachers Qin Hong-Li and Li Yong-Gui who helped him back to school; landlord aunty who gave him RMB 4,000 to help him through the difficulty, etc. So when he received the RMB 200,000 royalty fee from Hunan People's Publishing House by publishing “Chinese Boy Hung Chan-Hui”, “Hung Chan-Hui’s Diary”, “Hung Chan-Hui’s Story” for him, he set up the “Hung Chan-Hui Educational Responsibility Fund” immediately. In February 2006, the first batch of 500 high school students received help to study. Hung Chan-Hui encouraged young friends, “Misery is not wealth. No one wants it. I would rather see that no one in this world has to go through misery because that means everyone is leading a good life. But reality is cruel. What we have to learn is how to face difficulty and change one’s situation. What people really admire is not how you suffer, but how you fight. I am most proud of myself to be able to make money with my own hands to feed my family.” 

      Thus, student Hung Chan-Hui defeats misery, helps himself and others and creates hope. He deserves to be the “Hope Warrior”. The life story of Hung Chan-Hui has deeply touched the heart and highly praised by the “2007 Global Love of Lives Assessment Committee” of the Chou Ta-Kuan Cultural and Educational Foundation. He was selected from 1829 candidates around the world for the Global Love of Lives Medal, and he shall be awarded during May 22 to 30 with other honorees of the 10th Fervent Global Love of Lives Medal and touring Taiwan and Kinmen to promote the Caring Lives public benefit activity series. Welcome people from all circles to join in. 

◆ Disaster arrived 
      Secretary-General Sun Hsin-yi of the Chou Ta-Kuan Cultural and Educational Foundation indicated:
      Hung Chan-Hui, male, 25, was born on June 14, 1982 in the remote Hongzhuang Village, Dongxia Township, Xihua County, Henan Province. It’s not a rich family, but his honest and dutiful parents fed the family well. However, good things never last. One day in August 1994, disaster arrived. After emotional instability for two consecutive days, his always kindhearted father was suddenly stricken by intermittent insanity. After accidentally throwing his younger sister to death, his father left the house. One morning, Hung Chan-Hui got up and found his father missing. They finally found his father under a tree far from the village at about noon. His father was holding an abandoned baby girl wrapped in a package. He found his father and here came another child. Hung Chan-Hui liked this poor little sister and named her Hung Chen-Chen.
      For Hung Chan-Hui, the misery didn’t stop. His mother could no longer tolerate his father’s violence after illness and heavy burden in the family. One day, after having steamed bun enough for a week, his mother chose to leave without a word. The only support in the family was completely collapsed. Hung Chan-Hui had to face such situation and took on the mother role. 

◆ Hanged on silently─ earned money to pay tuition, raise his sister and take care of his father 

      Hung Chan-Hui said, “I will hang on. I feel that everyone has the responsibility, not only for oneself, for one’s family, but also for the society. I will just keep going. I don’t want to give up.” 

      In 1998, Hung Chan-Hui passed the exam and was admitted to study in Xihua First High School, a key high school in Henan Province. The school is located in far-off county town 20 kilometers away. Hung Chan-Hui immediately thought about the reality: Where’s the tuition? Who is going to take care of the little sister? If his mother doesn’t come back, he will have to return the little sister to her biological parents. Just at the time when Hung Chan-Hui determined to leave Chen-Chen and left, suddenly the little sister dashed into his arms and cried, “Brother, don’t abandon me.” Hung Chan-Hui almost couldn’t hold back his tears. 

      Hung Chan-Hui decided that he would take his sister with him. He would earn money to pay tuition and raise his sister. He rent a room nearby the school and brought his sister over. Hung Chan-Hui had been selling almost anything including round ball pen, books and materials, English cassettes, etc. that many people look down upon, but he didn’t mind. He earned money, raised his sister and had to send medicine home to his father on a regular basis. 

      As he entered second year in high school his father was hospitalized and needed someone to take care of plus lots of farm work to do, Hung Chan-Hui had to leave school and returned home. One year later when little Chen-Chen was six years old and his father’s illness was gradually under control, Hung Chan-Hui returned to school again with help from teachers. 

◆ Studied outside of town ─ brought his sister over and continued his education in university 

      Hung Chan-Hui said, “When I look back at the path that I’ve been through, I also feel it’s tough. But then I think what I’ve done is a simple thing. If I do it well that’s because I persist.” 
      In 2003, Hung Chan-Hui passed the exam and was admitted to the Department of Economics & Management of Zhongnan Huaihua University in Hunan Province. He faced another actual difficulty again: Where’s the tuition? Who is going to take care of the little sister? He made a total of 1,500 working through the holiday before university started. He considered that he hadn’t made enough for the tuition and where he went was a brand new place, so during the beginning of school, he did not prepare to bring his sister along. 

      During his university life, Hung Chan-Hui experienced many jobs from selling instant noodles, ads for local TV station, to being a sales agent for electronic product dealer. These experiences allow him to better understand the society. According to Hung Chan-Hui’s teacher, basically he didn’t eat any meat product at school. Sometimes he just ate a bowl of rice with the seasoning pack that comes with the instant noodle as his dish. 

      Before summer holiday, Hung Chan-Hui gave his little sister, who came to Huaihua, a nick name – Little Dot. She stayed with a teacher in the beginning, then moved to a female dormitory and stayed for some time. Gradually, the story of his bringing his sister to school spread across the campus. After knowing his situation, the school leader and faculties in his department initiated a fund raising campaign for him. When the school leader brought him the raised 3,190, Hung Chan-Hui would not accept no matter what. In the end, the school paid his tuition directly for him with the money.

◆ Touched the society 

      Hung Chan-Hui said, “Painful experience is not the principal for me to accept the donation.” 

      When people from all walks of life knew about the situation of Hung Chan-Hui, many of them offered support, but he refused. He said, “I will not accept donation because I feel the most important thing is that one should strive hard for himself. Miserable and painful experience is not the principal for me to accept the donation.” 

      The school leader was immensely touched by Hung Chan-Hui and made an exception to arrange him a dormitory room so that he could take care of his sister more conveniently. Also with the help of school, Hung Chan-Hui completed the paperwork to let his sister study in the nearby Shimen Elementary School. 

      Little Dot was more and more mature. Sometimes when her brother could not come home from work, she would cook by herself and waited for her brother to come home and eat. Every time when she felt her brother was unhappy, she would keep it in mind and help him out as much as she could. When her brother was selling telephone cards but couldn’t go to the female dormitory, she would go there room by room and help sell the cards. She would also pick up any empty bottles spotted on the road. 

 
 
◆ Lived with hope 

      As said by Hung Chan-Hui, his life had turned from being hopeless into having hope. He indicated that every spring festival when he returned home from university he felt so much relieved to see his father recovering from his illness. At the end of 2004, his mother felt sorry and returned to this long-separated family. He also heard from his brother who had been wandering outside for years. 

      Hung Chan-Hui said, “As an ordinary person, I will continue to do what I should do like in the past. I will fulfill my obligation and responsibility peacefully, calmly and without regret. Isn’t this wonderful?” 

      Hung Chan-Hui is a person who knows how to cherish and gratify. Classmates were highly impressed by his thrifty, loving kindness and the sense of responsibility. His roommate Zhang Chi indicated that soon after the completion of the military training course in the first year, many students threw away their military uniforms and shoes feeling they were dirty and won’t be worn any more, but Hung Chan-Hui picked them back. He intended to wash them and bring them back for his father. In the beginning, he washed them alone slowly, but then his six roommates were moved by his spirit and helped him with the washing. Through this event, these young people who were not familiar with each other as school just started became very good friends. Later he decided to collect more to helppoor farming villages. 

      “When eating instant noodle, Chan-Hui often kept the seasoning pack so that he didn’t need to buy anything for his next meal and he could just eat steamed bun with it.”, said his Henan fellow schoolmate Li Hong-E in tears, “But he always bought milk and eggs for his growing sister.” Hung Chan-Hui is the president of Zhongnan University Marketing Association. One of the members, Liu Hai-Sheng of Chemical Engineering major, often had to visit Hung Chan-Hui for some business in the dormitory room that the school particularly arranged for the brother and sister. Liu Hai-Sheng indicated, “Every time I went there during the meal time, I saw they were cooking plain noodles without anything else. They ate just like that, but there’s the warmth of family.” 

      Among close fellow classmates, Hung Chan-Hui has another nick name – Mother Hung because he is so enthusiastic in helping others like a benevolent mother next door. He often reaches out to help others despite of his own economic difficulties. Once there’s a female schoolmate of Chinese Literature major who needed money for a surgery. As soon as Hung Chan-Hui knew about this, he called for all members in the Marketing Association to a meeting overnight and suggested to raise money to help this schoolmate. He also took the first step to donate 50 dollars. 

      On December 10, 2005, relevant department leaders in Huaihua City came to Zhongnan University mainly to see Hung Chan-Hui and his sister, and the Department of Civil Affairs also brought him 600 dollars as consolation money. But he refused. He even provided the name and address of another poor student to the Department of Civil Affairs and asked them to give the money to that student. Later that student was too moved to speak hearing about this. 

      Hung Chan-Hui’s spirit also touches everyone who knows him. 

      At the sports field of Hunan Zhongnan University, a young guy often appears to practice twin rod. It is the exercise that Hung Chan-Hui must do every day and night. He has persisted in the practice for nine years. He also frequently encourages his fellow students to strengthen body and keep fit. His classmate Chen Jia-Hui said, “What I admire him most are the words he put on the twin rod – View life from this side and the other side of the rod. Train your body and train your mind.” 

      Teacher Yu Jin-Xiu, Hung Chan-Hui’s counselor, indicated that Hung Chan-Hui went through hardship in study. Sometimes he could not attend class for the sake of making money, he would always phone teacher in advance to take leaves. Classmate Lu Xiu-Hui said if he missed class, he would often borrow her notes to study by himself. As he studied very hard, he even won scholarship from school and Hunan Province. 

      But the devil of illness did not forget this diligent student. Hung Chan-Hui’s left eye was wounded when he studied in high school. He suffered various eye diseases ever since. Long-term malnutrition and constant toils affected his left eyesight seriously until he was almost blind. As indicated by Dr. Wang Cong-Xiang, who conducted a surgery for him in mid November 2005, Hung Chan-Hui never mentioned about his story. Even during his hospitalization period, he maintained to be very strong and didn’t say a word about his hardship. Dr. Wang Cong-Xiang said, “His sturdiness gave medical staff more confidence in performing the operation. Hung Chan-Hui did not complain or feel sorry for himself because of illness. Instead, he accepted the situation optimistically and cooperated with the treatment. This is exactly what a patient requires. This is a kind of healthy mind of facing lives, a mental spirit that everyone should possess.” 

      “It is because he has been through all these that he is able to face anything with a smile.” Not only did Hung Chan-Hui refuse to accept any donation, but he also used the RMB 200,000 royalty fee from the publication of books including “Chinese Boy Hung Chan-Hui” to set up the “Hung Chan-Hui Educational Responsibility Fund” in order to help other students in more desperate need. Now he continues his study with his sister and walks out of plight through his own endeavor. Nowadays, quite a few young students lack of such spirit of his loving kindness, responsibility and self-esteem. 
      Hung Chan-Hui, we are touched by you!