Friday, May 23, 2008 8:23 AM
As usual, I was blog-hopping juz now and came across this blog
--> http://help-thien-nhan.blogspot.com/
It is actually a blog set up to raise funds for a small boy who needs ALOT of money for his medical expenses.
It is to keep the kind-hearted donors updated about how the boy is doing from time to time.

Alrite, this is what actually happen to the boy;
He was abandoned after birth by his teenage mother in a remote and poor central mountain area.
Dumped outside the family shack and left to die, hidden under papaya leaves and bamboo, the newborn was mauled by a wild animal, most likely a dog that chewed off his right leg and badly savaged his groin.
Villagers found the boy, his pale and bloodied body crawling with ants.
By the time he was taken to by motorcycle to the nearest hospital, 72 hours had passed and yet, miraculously, the child survived.
Hospital staff amputated his leg at the hip and stabilised his condition, and visiting Buddhist monks named him Thien Nhan or "good person".
After two months local authorities, inexplicably, sent him back to his family, into the care of his grandparents.
The case disappeared from the news. Many people presumed the boy had died.
But Tran Mai Anh, a 35-year-old Hanoi journalist, couldn't stop thinking about Nhan, tormented at night by visions of what had become of him..
Her worst fear had turn out to be true.
When, after months of research, she tracked him down in December in his family but, he was badly neglected, dirty, anaemic and suffering diarrhea.
She took him to a medical centre and, a month ago, adopted him, together with her husband.
They took him back to Hanoi, where Nhan was treated for free at the French-Vietnamese hospital.
VietCot, a German-funded charity, hand-crafted a prosthetic leg, urgently needed to stop further damage to Nhan’s body – the first of many that he will need as he grows.
His adoptive parents have contacted international hospitals about the plastic surgery and hormone therapy Nhan will need to lead a normal life.News quickly spread in the media, on Internet forums and in offices.Many hundreds emailed and visited the family house in Hanoi's Old Quarter, bringing toys, baby clothes and their own children to play with Nhan.
Friends set up an online diary at http://www.help-thien-nhan.blogspot.com/ and an account for donations to help cover the child's surgery and therapy bills, expected to run into the tens of thousands of dollars.
Isn't it just too pitiful for a small boy like him?
Imagine him growing up a few years down the road.
How much he would have to suffer if he still doesn't have sufficient fund to help him go through the necessary operations.
The humiliation that he would have to carry with him if he were to meet with those bad people who can so irritatingly insensitive at times.
Just reading about this made me realize how lucky I am to grow up in this environment, in Singapore.
Also, I can’t believe that such cruel and heartless people still exists.
Even if you had unexpected pregnancy, or whatever lame reasons you had for not being able to keep ur baby, at least to send the child for adoption is a better option.
There are also many other options other than this larh!
There are lots of couples who sincerely wants a child of their own but couldn’t due to some reasons.
& there you have these HEARTLESS people who carelessly juz dumped their baby somewhere.
Eurgh!!
Juz how more malicious, ruthless, nasty, callous, can you be?
Tsk~
&&&, what’s wrong with the local authorities?
When the ruthless MOTHER have already dumped the poor, pitiful, innocent child, you can still send him back to the heartless family???
Criusly, I wonder what the world have become.