In 2003 three young British teachers and a Chinese businesswoman, Wang XiaoQing met Qin in a village near the Chinese border with Burma. She had crawled into a fire as a child and due to her parents’ poverty the damage to her foot had gone untreated. By the age of 14, a life threatening infection was eating into the limb. To save her leg Qin required extensive surgery, were this to not happen she at least needed an amputation above her knee to stop the infection spreading fatally. Her family was finding it difficult to raise the money to pay for any treatment however. Upon returning to his school, one of the teachers, Gareth Jones, wrote an e mail asking friends and family for support. The email quickly made its way around the world, raising the necessary funds.

Gareth and XiaoQing then returned to Qin’s village to ask for her father’s permission to take Qin back with them to Guangzhou in south-eastern China. After he gave his consent Qin embarked on a whirlwind tour that resulted in her becoming a celebrity in the north of England where much of the fundraising was done. (see “Media” ) As more and more money was raised, the dream to form HAND began becoming a reality.

在2003 年，三位英国年轻老师与一位中国女士汪小青在中国与缅甸交界的怒江山区的村庄里遇到一个怒族小女孩约丽琴。当小阿琴只有几个月的时候， 她无意地爬进了家中的火煻，将双足烧至残废；由于家庭贫困，她一直无法得到治疗。琴十四岁的时候，她的脚受到严重的细菌侵染，并已经侵害到她的生命。看到这种情况，这群年轻人决心帮助阿琴。格乐夫先生回到学校后便透过电子邮件把琴的情况叙述给朋友与家人，并主动捐献出自己三分之一的月工资，希望能得到大家的支持。这封电子邮件迅速得到了乐夫来自世界各地朋友的支持，大家为琴渐渐筹得了必要的手术费。

接下来，乐夫与小青又回到千里之外的怒江丽琴所在的知子罗村，问她父亲是否允许将丽琴带到中国南部的广州市治病。丽琴父亲答应了，丽琴从此踏上了一个改变她命运的旅程，不但她的生命得到挽救，她还被送到英国为最初的“乐夫爱心诊所”成立筹款（详情请看 “Media”），无国界的真诚奉献创立了最终的“怒江乐夫扶贫中心”。
April to August 2003:

Qin, her foot and the infection that was endangering her life.

 

琴的烧伤口严重感染，并在逐步腐蚀她早在1岁时就已经被严重烧伤的脚。

Qin recuperating with friends in hospital in Guangzhou after an international fund raising campaign to pay for her operation.

感谢一次国际爱心的筹款运动，琴的脚得到了救助，琴在广州的南方医院和朋友们在一起。

Qin’s leg after the operation which involved transplantation of bone and skin. She is now able to jog around relatively freely and with no pain.

琴痊愈后的脚。手术包括骨头和皮肤的移植。琴可以基本上没有痛苦地自由行走，甚至跳跃。

Volunteers get together as part of a fund raising trip in 2003. Before returning to China, Qin was taken to London to see the musical, “The Lion King”.

2003年，为了凑够资金，支援者们聚集在一起。在回到中国之前，志愿者们带琴到伦敦剧院看“狮子王”音乐剧。

August 2003:

Welcoming Qin home.

When we met Qin she did not even have an I.D. card, to take her to the UK therefore required a huge amount of goodwill and cooperation from local government. As donations kept arriving, Gareth and XiaoQing decided to build on these relationships and were granted permission to set up a clinic in the area.

欢迎回家，琴！当初遇到琴的时候，她甚至没有身份证。为了带她去英国，很大程度上需要六库政府的协助。为了救助琴，格乐夫和汪小青不断向世界各地志朋友进行筹款活动。为了救助怒江少数民族山区的贫困村民，两人决定在阿琴的家乡建立一个医疗救助慈善机构。

Meeting with local TV reporters, local health authority officer and local foreign affair officer in front of Qin's house.

在琴的家门口和六库电视台新闻记者、六库卫生局官员、六库外事办官员见面。