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Hoa and her friends in the journey |
In spite of contracting a chronic heart disease and having deformed legs, Nguyen Thi Thuy Hoa, Trust ambassador of the Green Journey Trans-Vietnam Walk Program, “From Lotus Village to Nha Rong Wharf”, always appears with a smile on her face.
“Walk to share”
We met Hoa when the Green Journey came to Da Nang City. Sitting in her wheelchair, Hoa said, smiling, that she was tired sometimes, but felt happy and found her life meaningful.
Hoa was eager to join the campaign when knowing that the walk’s target not to mobilise environmental preservation and traffic safety but also to help AO victims and needy students across the country. Hoa also shared that from her own experiences she realised that people felt happy when they could share with other disadvantaged people.
Throughout the Green Journey, Hoa has always been a source of encouragement for other participants despite her own difficulties.
“A cactus flower”
Hoa became paralysed when she was only 6 months old and over the past 30 years, Hoa’s life has joined with the wheelchair. Hoa asked her mother and brother to teach her because she could not go to school. Then, she took a passionate interest in prose and verse.
Unfortunately, Hoa's father passed away due to liver cancer, and after that her mother was killed in a traffic accident. In spite of this great sorrow she was determined to do her best to overcome all hindrances.
Hoa did many jobs herself to earn a living because she does not want to be a burden to her sisters and brothers. Now, Hoa is owner of Thien Ngan Flower Shop in Quy Nhon City of Binh Dinh Province and head of an art club for disabled youths named “Cactus flower”.
Hoa has helped other people who have the same plight to have a better life, considering it to be the happiest thing in her life and she would spend her whole life doing it, Hoa said.
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