{"id":2986,"date":"2020-08-26T02:57:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T02:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2020-08-26T02:57:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T02:57:31","slug":"chinese-valentines-day-we-saved-this-baby-girl-from-being-given-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/chinese-valentines-day-we-saved-this-baby-girl-from-being-given-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Valentine\u2019s Day: We Saved This Baby Girl from being \u201cGiven Away.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cMing Mei\u201d <\/strong>(Her name has been changed to protect her identity)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

August 25th is the Qixi Festival — China\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day — an important day for young Chinese girls.\u00a0 Will you \u201cSave a Girl\u201d \u2013 a girl like Ming Mei — for China\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look at beautiful baby Ming Mei! She may never know that because she is an illegal third child of a very poor family, her mother was planning to \u201cgive her away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ming Mei\u2019s parents already had two children \u2013 the limit under the Two-Child Policy \u2013 when Ming Mei was born.  They did not intend to have a third, but her mother got pregnant by accident.  If they wanted to, the Family Planning Officials could impose a large fine on the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ming Mei\u2019s mother is a Christian and believes that children are a gift from God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ming Mei\u2019s father is the only healthy man in his family.  He is a truck driver, transporting vegetables to market.  The coronavirus shut down his business and he had not worked for five months when Ming Mei was born.  His younger brother has epilepsy, and his father has been bedridden for two years.  Ming Mei\u2019s father was responsible to care for them by himself. In addition, he is supporting his wife and two children.  Ming Mei, a third child, was more than her family could bear financially. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Ming Mei\u2019s mother did not know what to do.  She loved Ming Mei but could not afford a third child.  With a heavy heart, she planned to give Ming Mei away, because of the severe poverty in her family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, our Fieldworker learned about Ming Mei\u2019s family and went to see them.  She congratulated Ming Mei\u2019s mother on her beautiful, newborn daughter, saying \u201cGirls are as good as boys.\u201d  She offered the family a monthly stipend of $25 for a year to help them keep Ming Mei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Ming Mei\u2019s mother heard that with our help, she could keep Ming Mei, she began to cry, saying that our helping hand was building up her faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Chinese Valentine\u2019s Day, will you show love for a girl child and become a GirlSaver?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any donation is welcome, including a one-time donation. But would you consider becoming a monthly donor, a \u201cGirlSaver?\u201d For only $25 per month or $300 per year, our GirlSavers have helped WRWF save at-risk babies in China, babies like Ming Mei, who might not be alive if one of our undercover fieldworkers had not met her mother and assured her that little girls are just as special as boys. Because of your generosity, we can continue to save girls in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about our Save a Girl Campaign:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=end-gendercide-and-forced-abortion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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YES, I WANT TO HELP END GENDERCIDE AND FORCED ABORTION IN CHINA!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your donation enables WRWF to continue to be a voice for the voiceless women and children of China. This huge effort comes at a cost. We need your support. Please give as generously as you can. Every donation makes a difference! Thank you for your generosity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMing Mei\u201d (Her name has been changed to protect her identity) August 25th is the Qixi Festival — China\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day — an important day for young Chinese girls.\u00a0 Will you \u201cSave a Girl\u201d \u2013 a girl like Ming Mei … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[231,223,222,239,236],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-forced-abortion","tag-gendercide","tag-one-child-policy","tag-reggie-littlejohn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}