Her name is Tian, from Xinxiang, Henan. At the age of 66, she was once called "civil environmental ambassador" by the media for recycling waste batteries for charity. At the same time, she was also a torchbearer in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, a national red flag bearer on March 8th, and a China candidate moved by CCTV ... But now, she is plagued by various diseases, and her life depends entirely on her children.
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Fan never imagined that her 66-year-old mother owed more than 850,000 yuan if it wasn't for the fact that environmental volunteers from Beijing visited her 66-year-old mother Tian Jia a few days ago and turned over her books. For her as a primary school teacher and her brother as a civil servant, this has far exceeded their repayment ability. Fan was angry with his mother Tian: "I was too vain after I became famous."
Fan's husband advised her not to worry about the married girl and the spilled water, but Fan still couldn't let go. She hasn't had a good sleep since New Year's Day. The nightmare of this family also comes from 1999.
Tian is a well-known person in the domestic environmental protection public welfare field. 1999, she is engaged in the wholesale business of batteries. She learned from the newspaper that waste batteries would cause great pollution, and she began to collect them at her own expense. She ran around in many ways, invested more than 200,000 yuan, and recovered 65 tons of used batteries at her own expense, and was known as the "civil environmental ambassador". Later, she also organized public welfare activities such as "Ten Thousand People Sign Green Olympic Bid", "Yellow River Pollution Investigation" and "Life Network Love Environmental Protection", and led the establishment of Xinxiang Environmental Protection Volunteers Association in Henan Province. Because of a series of influential public welfare activities, in 2006, she was named the national March 8 red flag bearer, and in 2008, she became the torchbearer of the Beijing Olympic Games.
But few people know that Tian, who made a fortune by doing battery wholesale business, has not earned a penny since he joined the public welfare undertakings. After that, some public welfare activities were subsidized by their own savings, and many of them were borrowed. "Find an old volunteer of the Volunteer Association and lend you 1000 today and 2000 tomorrow." In the daughter's view, because of previous media reports, my mother's heart has expanded. "Too much vanity" prompted her to carry out her own public welfare activities, which had already exceeded the scope of her own economy. Finally, the debt was settled, with a total debt of 850,000, leaving the family with no clue.
Can the Olympic torch sell for 200 thousand? Was stopped by his son.
In the face of the economic situation of living beyond our means, the family once kindly reminded Tian that he also intended to turn back. 20 10, she tried to be self-sufficient and established an agricultural ecological park in Xinxiang to grow organic vegetables, fruits and seedlings. On the one hand, Tian hopes to repay his debts, on the other hand, he hopes to promote the local agricultural development. However, after several years, the ecological park has not improved much, and the income can only barely support the cost. 20 16 A flood in July completely annihilated her dream. ...
Today, Tian is plagued by diseases such as diabetes, pulmonary embolism and hydronephrosis. The operation at the end of 20 16 was completed by raising money, and now it still needs 2000 yuan for treatment every month to maintain life. In recent years, Tian Jia has invested a lot of financial resources in Tian's public welfare undertakings. The only hope now is to sell the seedlings in the agricultural ecological park and solve the problems of treatment and debt repayment.
When Tian heard that the Olympic torch could be sold for more than 200,000 yuan, she tried the idea of baby torch, hoping to sell her torch to pay off her debts, but this behavior was stopped by her son.
solution
Jason, an environmental volunteer, has been engaged in public welfare for many years. At the end of last year, when Tian attended a meeting in Beijing, he found Jason's charitable foundation to apply for assistance. "At that time, she realized that there were some problems in her economic situation." Before long, Jason came to Tian's home in Xinxiang to investigate and discuss the solution. Accompanied by Tian's children, Jason dug out all the books owed by Tian's family and counted them for seven hours. It was not until two o'clock in the middle of the night that the total debt was calculated: more than 855,000 yuan. This result shocked everyone at the scene.
"Because I borrowed money from others, I feel embarrassed. I will organize them to travel and give them benefits during the New Year." In the daughter's view, it is her mother's "good face" and ignorance of finance that have reduced her to today's level. On the other hand, Tian did promote the development of public welfare undertakings in China. "Nowadays, many people still call Aunt Tian tian teacher because her behavior really affects a group of people." Jason said that Tian himself could not comment on this situation. He just wants to do his best to bring some changes to their family. Today, she has contacted a number of crowdfunding platforms, hoping to sell the seedlings in Tian Agricultural Ecological Park in the form of crowdfunding to help Tian pay off debts and treat diseases.