I started live streaming since July, 2016 to help the homeless find their family
I’ve been to Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong
Fujian, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Sichuan and many other places
In live streaming
Every day there are netizens
Identifying where the vagrants come from based on their accents
Netizens also repost pictures or get touch with the hometown
To help bring the vagrants home
(By October 25th, 2018) we have successfully brought 56 homeless people home
At the beginning I set up a stall on the streets and moved around
In June, 2016
I saw a vagrant with no shoes on
That reminded me of a lot of things
I cried alone for a long time
Because I had a brother who was sick with epilepsy since childhood
Later he went lost
We searched for 3 days and nights
And eventually found him
He was on the point of death at that time and soon passed away
I was 10 and he was 17
So when I saw homeless people on the streets
I decided to help them find their family
And bring them home
A lot of tramps just walk around along national highways
I go inside wasted buildings and under bridges (to search for them)
If he sleeps there everyday
He would leave many fresh traces
These are their luggage, these stuffs
The quilt is covered with dust
He should have left for quite some time
He might have 2 or 3 temporary shelters
Next time when I pass by here
I’ll go in and check again
“Do you want to call your family?”
I’ve known him for over a year
“Do you want to call your brother in law?”
He finally said a few words to me this April
Later netizens recognized his accent
And we got his information
We contacted his younger sister and brother in law
They said they would come and bring him home
This time I find he’s still there
When he did a video chat with his brother in law
I saw him smiling all the time
“You just said you want to go home, right?”
If he’s not willing to go home, even if his family come and pick him up
And they are not able to persuade him, and then we can’t do anything about it
Since I start live streaming, every day I receive doubts
But I always believe that the masses have sharp eyes
(Gradually) they recognize me
In general the vagrants are not willing to communicate
So I would first offer him a cigarette
And then ask if he has had the meal, something like this
They have dignity too
As long as he wants to talk to you
You have the chance to help him return home
Around this time last year (I met a vagrant)
He was over 40 years old
At the beginning he didn’t respond to me
I gave him food and talked to him every day
Later he told me the address
And the netizen got in touch with his family
He had parents of 70 or 80
They went out to search for him every day
When his brother came here, he cried
He insisted on kneeling down to the ground and kowtowing to us
“No.No.No. Please don’t.”
Although the vagrants roam the streets, their family worry for them
They never stop missing them
A lot of vagrants are eager to go home
They just don’t know how
How to face their family
They forget the way home, either the way of life or the way in reality
Sometimes if I find a vagrant
And I haven’t got his information
I would put up a tent nearby
So I can observe his movements
And establish friendship with him
This time I’ve been out for one and a half month
It will be one or two months before I return home
My child would be on winter vacation then
Now there are much fewer vagrants than before
So I will retire when vagrants are fewer
I will stay at home then