ASIA-PACIFIC 
Cop breastfeeds quake orphans
Monday, 19 May, 2008
A policewoman is helping the China quake aid effort by breastfeeding 8 infants affected by the disaster (Getty Images)
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A Chinese policewoman is contributing to the country's massive earthquake relief effort in a very personal way – by breastfeeding eight babies.
A newspaper in Chengdu, the capital of quake-hit Sichuan province, devoted a special page to the 29-year-old woman, calling her a "hero."
The woman from the quake-ravaged town of Jiangyou has just had a child herself, the Western Urban Daily says.
She is nursing the children of three women who were left homeless by the quake and are too traumatised to give milk, as well as five orphans, the report says.
The babies who lost their parents have been put in an orphanage which does not have powdered milk, it says.
An estimated 50,000 people were killed in the May 12 earthquake, China's worst natural disaster in a generation.
Source: AFP
A newspaper in Chengdu, the capital of quake-hit Sichuan province, devoted a special page to the 29-year-old woman, calling her a "hero."
The woman from the quake-ravaged town of Jiangyou has just had a child herself, the Western Urban Daily says.
She is nursing the children of three women who were left homeless by the quake and are too traumatised to give milk, as well as five orphans, the report says.
The babies who lost their parents have been put in an orphanage which does not have powdered milk, it says.
An estimated 50,000 people were killed in the May 12 earthquake, China's worst natural disaster in a generation.
Source: AFP
