is wide, very busy with traffic, and floods when it rains,
what can you do to help him? build a pedestrian footbridge of course! a loving
mother in China’s Henan province spent more than a million yuan, at today's rate, £111,245.88 or $155,460.88 building two metal footbridges in front of her son’s school, to make sure he
and the other kids cross the road safely,
“There will
be deep water and it is very difficult to cross the road,” the
woman said. “The water will spill over the stairs where schoolchildren
stand to wait for their parents like little birds. They looked miserable. My
child’s feet turned white because they were soaking in water.” both
footbridges, one of which is almost complete, and the other in its foundation
laying stage, have been approved by the local bureau of housing and urban-rural
development, but their construction was exclusively funded by the mysterious
benefactor,
Mr. Meng
said that she never told her son that she had paid for the new footbridges,
because she doesn’t want her child to be vain about it with the other kids. She
only hopes that her contribution will help keep the children and teaching staff
safe and enable the kids to get an education, “I just did
what I can afford to do. You can’t take money with you after death and I don’t
need to leave too much money for my child,” the woman said. “I will call the
bridge the Wisdom Bridge. Students crossing the bridge can get wiser and
wiser.” as you
might expect this story has been getting a lot of attention in China, with most
social media users praising the woman for her, She could have done so many
things to benefit only herself and her family with that million yuan, like buy
a couple of apartments, or a house, but she decided to do something for the
whole community instead, what a truly public spirited thing to do, OK it was primarily for the benefit of her son, but even so the bridges will provide safe crossings long after he has left school.
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