On
4 October 2005, 15 high school students from Sydney and Brisbane will spend their
school holidays on a car tour to raise awareness to help rescue children who have
been orphaned during the persecution of Falun Gong in China. The students
aged between 5 and 19 will stop at cities along the east coast of NSW and QLD
ending in Brisbane on Friday 7 October. A number of the students have been personally
affected by the persecution of Falun Gong having family members in China who have
suffered torture in Chinese labour camps. 
The
car tour is part of an international effort headed by the Global Mission to Rescue
Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners (GMR). GMR is raising funds to provide a basic
education for orphaned Falun Gong children and those who have been expelled from
or denied education in state-controlled public schools on the basis of belief.
Background
information:
As a result of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners
in China, over the past six years, more than 2700 are known to have lost their
lives, leaving behind innocent children of all ages who are now orphaned or semi-orphaned.
No care system has been implemented for these children and their lives are in
jeopardy every day.
Little Rongrong, a five-year-old girl, whose father was
tortured to death for practicing Falun Gong, was left to the care of her grandmother
while her mother lived in exile to avoid the same fate as her husband. Rongrong’s
mother was later arrested. Her grandmother soon died of grief, leaving only her
grandfather to take care of her. Her case is one of hundreds, possibly thousands. |  |
Posting
date: 5/Oct/2005
Original article date: 4/Oct/2005
Category: Event
