“The residents were my childhood friends and it pained me to see how difficult their lives had become,” recalls Yoying. “I knew I had to try to improve their lives.”

“这儿的乡民都是我的童年朋友，看到他们仍如此艰难谋生让我感到心痛，”Yoying回忆到：“我必须为改善他们的生活而尽力。”

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"In the mid-90s people would rather burn their scalps with chemicals to straighten it to confirm with the Western standard of beauty than have natural hair and that pained me, " he says passionately.

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The elderly nurses turned cordial, and even Matron gave me a pained smile.

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