Like anybody else.

Very alert but always fervent and loyal blog readers had an observation to make when seeing yesterday’s posting.
This picture was published:



First observation was that “Most beautiful people”-team-member Lydia indeed is a very attractive and beautiful woman.



The second observation concerns the 23-year-old student Zhang Xin Wei.
Who says that she feels the most beautiful because of singing together with her friends.
Yes, alert fervent and loyal blog reader, Zhang Xin Wei is challenged with Dow syndrome.



The origin of the situation lies with the CCTV documentary maker Andrey Zhu.
He, together with team member Guo Guo, was in touch with the “Beijing Huiling Community Services for people with Learning Disabilities”.
Mr. Zhu’ and Guo Guo’s idea was to propose the project “The most beautiful people in the world” also to the students of the “Beijing Huiling Community Services for people with Learning Disabilities”.
To see if one of them would feel the most beautiful.
The teachers of the “Beijing Huiling Community Services for people with Learning Disabilities” were very enthusiastic about this idea.
And so was the photographer and all of the team members.
There are no limitations who can participate in the project.
And mentally challenged people are in the first place fellow human beings like everybody else.

Although schedule was heavy while in Beijing, time was made to visit together with Guo Guo the “Beijing Huiling Community Services for people with Learning Disabilities” one morning.
To meet the students and the teachers to get to know each other.

Next, the teachers organised a special morning with the students about being the most beautiful person in the world.
They talked about the subject and Zhang Xin Wei presented herself as the most beautiful and this with a wonderful explanation.
An appointment was made and the team of the project “The most beautiful people in the world” went to her house.

Zhang Xin Wei’s parents, her father is a doctor, live in another city.
They have limited their contact with the daughter to a minimum.
It is the grandmother who looks after Zhang Xin Wei.
Together they live in an apartment.

It was great to meet Zhang Xin Wei.
Who has no reservations.
Immediately she grabs hands and lovingly holds them.
And who is happy.
Content in life.

Her grandmother is the sweetest person ever met.
So lovingly taking care of Zhang Xin Wei.
Caressing her hair and feeling proud to have her as a grandchild.

The grandmother and Zhang Xin Wei have a happy life together.
They are proud of each other.



It was probably the most impressing meeting within the context of performing the project in China.
It had an extraordinary beauty.
Also because team member Lydia immediately was warm friends with Zhang Xin Wei.

Zhang Xin Wei is presented in the project without any extra explanation.
A beautiful picture was made of her and the grandmother and the fact she is challenged by Dow syndrome is totally irrelevant.

Herself, she doesn’t feel challenged by Dow syndrome.
“The most beautiful people in the world”-team neither.









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