blind man and his friend with no arms work as one to plant a forest

by:Yovog     2023-07-12
Now they are going to build a mountain.
Over the past decade, Jia Wenqi and Jia Haixia have planted more than 10,000 trees together.
This is a great feat for anyone growing small forests in China, but wengchi has no weapons and Haixia is blind.
A new short film from action camera company GoPro called \"You are my weapon, I am your eye\", which records the environmental recovery of two people in a small village in Hebei province, near Beijing.
They were friends from an early age and called each other \"brothers\" because they were united and tried to restore the scarred landscape of development.
Wen Qi, 54, lost his arms at the age of three after touching the wire, and Haixia, 55, was injured in a quarry accident in 2000.
Both live on small benefits and start planting trees a few years after Haixia\'s blindness to earn extra income.
This is a difficult project.
Of the nearly 800 trees they planted in their first year, only two survived.
But they persisted, turning the small waterway into a deserted landscape, smashing the cuttings to the ground.
\"For people who are normal and healthy, you can achieve [this]
Hai Xia told Huffington Post.
\"But for the two of us disabled, it needs blood and tears.
\"China\'s industry has been booming in recent decades.
It caused a series of environmental problems, including poor air quality, polluted waterways and mysterious mass animal deaths.
Government officials promised to solve many of these problems in the coming years without killing development. -
This is not an easy task for the world\'s largest carbon emitter.
The brothers tell in the film How the expansion of the quarry contaminated streams, killed fish and shrimp, and \"turned their village into a wasteland \".
\"But while the idea of planting trees began to be for the purpose, Haixia said that the project had developed into a measure that would help restore the natural landscape around the contaminated villages.
Since 2002, the brothers have covered a small island with a miniature forest that was cloned from the branches cut by Haixia.
\"At first, we planted trees to make money, but now it\'s for the environment ---
Improve air quality, \"said Haixia.
\"We don\'t have any income.
We rely on social welfare. . . [But]
Although we are poor, we feel full.
\"The original plot they started planting is now full.
They plan to continue 100 now-
The village sets aside acres for another forest.
This area presents its own challenges. -
Including insufficient water supply--
But the brothers hope to continue planting trees and eventually cover the whole mountain area.
While their physical limitations make the project more difficult, brothers say they still have a long way to go.
\"Once a well can be built to nourish the next generation of natural air purifiers, they plan to start working.
\"Let\'s take a look at what two disabled people have achieved for the next generation and others,\" Vich said in the video . \".
\"Even after we left, they would see a blind man and an armless man leaving them a forest.
\"The Interview in this article was translated from Mandarin.
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