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Article: Feature: China's AIDS orphans learn to stand on their own feet
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- September 4, 2006
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Feature: China's AIDS orphans learn to stand on their own feet by
Li Laifang
BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Fifteen-year-old Nie Yongsong has
exceeded the expectations of himself and his community with his
admission into a vocational school in central China.
He is among the first of a generation of Chinese children orphaned
by AIDS, who have overcome public prejudice and an absence of hope,
to come of age and learn to stand on their own feet.
"I never expected that I would have the opportunity to come to a
big city to study," says Nie, who began his new campus life on Monday
in the Tourism School of Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, 200
kilometers from Shangcai County.
Nie's parents died ...