Tuesday, March 31, 2015

A blind man and his armless friend are the most unlikely pair of environmentalists

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"I am his hands. He is my eyes." Jia Haixa talks of his symbiotic relationship with his friend Jia Wenqi - a double amputee. The pair work together to plant trees in Yeli village, just outside of Shijiazhuang city, northern China.



Losing his sight in one eye to congenital cataracts, and later his right eye in a work-related accident, Jia Haixa is completely blind. The friends approached the local government and leased a 7.5 acre stretch of land along the riverbank. They hope to transform it by planting 1,000 trees every year, and have been doing that for a decade. Read more...


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