Hero rewarded for averting lake suicide
By Lu Feiran |
November 3, 2011, Thursday
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HANGZHOU city government is to give Maria Fernanda, a Uruguayan woman who rescued a would-be suicide at the city's West Lake, a "righteous award" to recognize her courage and benevolence, officials said yesterday.
The award will include 3,000 yuan (US$472), according to the Hangzhou Foundation for Justice and Courage. Officials said her act reflected the nature of Chinese people's foreign friends, as well as traditional Chinese virtues.
Officials said the award will be given to Fernanda through the Uruguayan Consulate in Shanghai.
On October 13, when Fernanda and her boyfriend were sightseeing at the West Lake, she spotted a woman drowning in the water.
People on the bank took photographs but no one tried to rescue her. Fernanda jumped into the lake and pulled the woman out of the water.
"We decided to give her an award of 3,000 yuan for her heroic deed," said Jiang Jiansheng, secretary-general of the Hangzhou Foundation for Justice and Courage.
The woman is now in Shanghai but will soon return home.
She said at that time she did not think twice before jumping into the lake, but she was shocked and angry at onlookers. She said they may not have been able to save the woman, but they should not have taken pictures indifferently.
Indifference in Chinese society hit the headlines this month when a two-year-old girl in southern China's Guangdong Province died after she was twice run over and ignored by 18 passers-by as she lay in the road.
The award will include 3,000 yuan (US$472), according to the Hangzhou Foundation for Justice and Courage. Officials said her act reflected the nature of Chinese people's foreign friends, as well as traditional Chinese virtues.
Officials said the award will be given to Fernanda through the Uruguayan Consulate in Shanghai.
On October 13, when Fernanda and her boyfriend were sightseeing at the West Lake, she spotted a woman drowning in the water.
People on the bank took photographs but no one tried to rescue her. Fernanda jumped into the lake and pulled the woman out of the water.
"We decided to give her an award of 3,000 yuan for her heroic deed," said Jiang Jiansheng, secretary-general of the Hangzhou Foundation for Justice and Courage.
The woman is now in Shanghai but will soon return home.
She said at that time she did not think twice before jumping into the lake, but she was shocked and angry at onlookers. She said they may not have been able to save the woman, but they should not have taken pictures indifferently.
Indifference in Chinese society hit the headlines this month when a two-year-old girl in southern China's Guangdong Province died after she was twice run over and ignored by 18 passers-by as she lay in the road.
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