31 for 21: A different SN adoption story

Do you think that only Fundamentalist Christians adopt one special needs child after another, beyond their means, and without carefully planning each new addition's future?  It is easy to shake your head and say, Oh, they are just religious nutcases.  Anyway, it can't be good for that many special needs children to live in one home, they can't possibly get all the attention they need.  Etc. etc.

Meet Mama Kong.

She is secular, poor, and has a disability herself (she is hunchbacked).

She is 63 years old.

She and her husband have adopted over 30 children, all with special needs, ranging from cleft lip/palate to severe cerebral palsy.

They live in rural China, in a small rundown shack in a village with no running water.  The children are all abandoned, the victims of China's "one child rule" and extreme pollution which results in one of the highest rates of birth defects in the world.

In addition to the intrinsic challenges of managing the health, emotional and educational needs of all these children, Mama Kong regularly has to stand up to the bureaucracy of the Communist Party itself.




Wow.  Just wow.

Speak truth to power much?


(Ooops, forgot to Hat Tip Leah!)