Networks for Mutual Help and Civil Society: from Shanghai to Yunnan

Wang Li, a "new Shanghaiese" shares with us how she became involved in Chinese civil society: "In 1991 I came to Shanghai from Sichuan, and with [my husband] Ku Haiyang , a disabled person, started a happy family, living a simple and quiet life. But in 2001, an event changed my previous ideas. I was given the opportunity of getting a free prosthetics by a charitable organization, and getting help in a gratuitous way changed my feelings and moved me deeply..."

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