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Shen Xin-ling

by Wenchih Liu from Taipei in Taiwan

134623The hero in my heart.https://www.parenting.com.tw/article/5029221-/At 12, the girl helped her family to sell grapefruit through an online website, and then she set up a website to assist poor children to be educated. Currently, she keeps helping those in need. The girl is Shen Xin-ling.

134618Shen Xing-ling set up Anan to help children learn.http://blog.udn.com/mayersu/5641460Shen Xin-ling is a famous philanthropist in Taiwan. She used a computer to do charity while in elementary school. In 2001, her parents bought her a computer. Surprising! she has a talent in computers. At that time, the sale for some agricultural products were poor; thus, she decided to set up a website to help hundreds of farmers, and it was successful to help farms weather difficulties, so she kept establishing other websites to help those in need. Anan, which was created when she was 12, was a free online platform for children to learn, and now the website has accumulated 3.5 million people online learning between the Cross-strait. At 14, she launched a campaign called Everyone Ate Orange, because of the orange decline of sale, and the government was forced to solve this problem finally. Due to her achievement, she went viral soon. Her mom ever told her that her talent was a gift from god, and that if she could, should should help those in hard life. Furthermore, she chose the department of humanities and social science in university, she helped to care for more of society, and now, she constantly does charity work worldwide.

Many people in the world still need a helping hand, and if people are charitable like her, the world will be full of warmth. As she said that being poor doesn’t necessarily mean penniless. Whether you have money or not, be willing to help people like Shen Xing-ling. We then can make the world a better place to live in.

 

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