So she told everyone at the roundtable that the reason she joined our campaign was so that she could help the millions of other children in the country who want and need to help their parents, too.

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She likes geology, so last summer she joined a University of California expedition to collect samples from a glacier in India's Garwhal Himalayas.

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Joanne Woeppel joined Facebook so she could keep tabs on her 13 grandkids.

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She joined the 80 or so other nuns who lived in the drab, five-story cement convent in Sainte Foy, Quebec.

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She joined the lower house of the provincial legislature, and made so many charitable gifts that in 2010 she ranked No. 6 on the Forbes China list of philanthropists.

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