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My mission to rescue China's forgotten children

Authored by Marc Astley
Posted: Wed, 09/12/2012 - 9:32pm

Lyn Gould, above, with her husband Alan, has dedicated her life to helping orphans in China.

Here she explains, in her own words, why she has chosen to take such a difficult path in life...

People ask me how I can work with dying children in China - they say they couldn’t do it because they would just cry all the time. Do they think I don’t care? Do they think I am not affected by what I see every day? But I can’t not do it.

Everything in China is about money - there is no free health service. Even if a child needs surgery to help them to live, if the family can...

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