Dunno the actual background to this pic, obviously from a Chinese newspaper - but found it in a beautiful post on Tumbleweed in Space (formerly Tumbleweed in Timor lorosae).
CHENGDU, China - 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 said. 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 said. The babies who lost their parents have been put in an orphanage which does not have powdered milk, it said. An estimated 50,000 people were killed in the May 12 earthquake, China’s worst natural disaster in a generation.
- Sapa-AFP.
Can't imagine the local constabulary attempting anything similar, anytime soon. There was a big brouhaha here some time back when a Pollie tried breastfeeding one of her own, in Parliament.
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