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Overcoming adversity with a smile

October 26, 2018 by vnexpress Leave a Comment

Ho Minh Hieu lives with his aunt’s family and his swine and piglets. The story of the 12-year-old, who is studying in central Quang Nam Province’s Nguyen Thanh Primary School, documented by photographer Dinh Chi Trung, has touched the hearts of many people.  Hieu’s mother passed away when he was little and he has never heard from his father. After his mother died, he was sent to Laos to live with his uncle. Life on the other side of the border deprived him of family feel and intimacy, and he gradually lost the ability to speak his mother tongue. Hieu returned to Vietnam when he was 7 years old and started going to school.  Hieu lives with his aunt’s family. Her husband and their second child suffer from developmental disorders and do not have jobs. His aunt works in HCMC as a dishwasher, and Hieu takes care of his uncle and cousin with the help of his aunt’s first son.  His grandmother gave him a sow as a means to make a living. Hieu takes care of it diligently. Every day he cuts vegetables to feed it and goes to the market to find leftovers for it, tends and bathes it and hugs it like a pet.  Now it has given birth to three piglets, leaving Hieu overjoyed. Le Van Dung, 27, his cousin, said: “Hieu has raised this pig for two years and it has produced three litters. Every time he gets to sell a piglet, he is overjoyed. “There were eight… [Read full story]




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