| Huiling means “wisdom” and “soul” and expresses our commitment to help persons with mental disabilities to have a thinking mind and a loving heart.
Huiling is a non-government, non-profit, grass-roots organization founded in 1990 by a group of Chinese people, under the leadership of Mrs. Meng Weina. In order to meet the requests of many patents with children affected by mental disabilities, Huiling has extended its services to other parts of China. Homes have been established in Beijing, Xi’an, Xining, Tianjin, Changsha, Chongqing and Qingyuan, Guangdong province.
Huiling was born as a simple shelter for mentally disabled persons. Now it includes various types of service and accepts people with mental disabilities of any age and social condition. In Guangzhou Huiling looks after more than 200 persons with mental disabilities spread in various centers and in a dozen of family homes.
Huiling firmly believes that persons with mental disabilities have the same rights of others and therefore must be accepted and respected. Its dream is to create conditions where mentally handicapped have the right to ask and to get help from society. Huiling believed that persons with mental disabilities should live in society, much the same as ordinary people.
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