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Man repays debt of neighbours' kindness with shoes
Tuesday February 21, 2012 06:34:20 PM,
IANS
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Beijing: A man in
southwest China has prepared nearly 400 pairs of cloth shoes as a
token of gratitude for his neighbours who once helped his parents
decades ago in saving his life as a child, a business daily
reported Tuesday.
The 51-year-old Tan Kecheng, who suffers from infantile paralysis,
has been preparing the shoes for the last 10 years in Chongqing
city, the China Daily reported citing Chongqing Business Daily.
Tan developed high fever when he was just two years old. His
parents had no choice other than keeping him at home as they could
not afford to take him to any hospital.
A visiting neighbour learned of Tan's situation three days later
and mobilised other residents in the area to donate money for
Tan's treatment. It helped Tan's family to hospitalise him.
Tan survived but was left with infantile paralysis, a viral
disease that can affect nerves and can lead to partial or full
paralysis.
As Tan's mother always told him to remember their neighbours'
kindness, he started making cloth shoes for his neighbours 10
years ago to show his feeling of gratitude towards them.
Today, to prepare shoes, Tan goes out with his walking stick to
collect materials, such as used clothes and abandoned tires, as
his only income is the social subsidy of 600 yuan ($95) a month.
It takes him about a week to make a pair of cloth-based pair of
shoes.
So far, Tan has prepared 400 pairs as token of his gratitude to
the neighbours.
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