Since the Chinese media has taken up this story is there no one that can help them? Gosh, how will they cope for money to buy warm clothes. Thank goodness for the neighbour letting them take vegetables. My heart is breaking :(

I find this heartbreaking and adorable at the same time. How could her own mother abandon her and let the child take care of her mom and grandma. She is so heartless. Dear God please bless this child and the elderly

Boredpanda, you can't post a story like this and not continue to find out ways to help. This is not some cat content click-generating funny story. Yes, this may be only one single tragedy out of probably a thousand and more, but still you can't post something like this and have us watching this and go on with business. Please do post a way to help this poor child. My goodness.

The last picture crushed me. This kid is amazing and she deserves the best education! Inspirational 😊

Way too many children in the world are doing this. I know this happens in South Africa. Child headed households too.

I would adopt her if I could...poor little Ángel😢

Trying to be optimistic here. She is already self confident and capable. I wasn't til my 30s. Wish she could take those skills to school.

Her mother should be ashamed of herself. This *little* girl needs to be in school getting an education. Her mother made an unspoken promise when she had her, that she would love her, provide for her, care for her and *never* leave her. She broke all those promises. She needs to spend some time behind bars!

I think a whole lot of this story is missing. No child is born knowing how to cook clean and care for others. How did she develop these skills if her grandmother and great grandmother are so incapacitated? How is it she had a cosy coat that fits her. That is not the clothing of a three month old?

Another thing to note is that she can't even receive a decent education due to 1. She is located in remote mountains with presumably no elementary school or even teachers. 2. There is virtually no income for her and the welfare one could obtain is next to nothing. 3.The college entrance exam competition is insanely fierce. Students in Shanghai, in fact, enjoys a separate examination system apart from other provinces so that they could secure their spot more easily. But I bet she will overcome all these barriers imposed by the government and society and eventually prevail.

If I had the $$ I would make sure Anna and her grandmothers had what the needed so Anna could have a childhood.

This is a heart-breaking story, but I cannot go past the fact that our "Western" idea of childhood is way too romanticised anyways -- the whole living-in-a-protective-buble thing with perfect education, expensive clothes and bottled mashed baby food. The childhood on the pictures is a sad reality for millions of children worldwide. :'(

How can we help her? Is there any contact information?

I hope her grandmother and her great-grandmother can give her back all the love she won't get from her mother. I don't understand the behavior of her mother. It's grotesque in my eyes. And I am deeply impressed by this kid, yet I desperately think she'd rather need a joyful childhood!!

My heart is broken. Seriously. This child has a hard life now and will have just as difficult one when her 90+ years old grandmothers pass away. I hope she will be adopted and have a fruitful life downstream. The adoption will be challenging as an older child and as a girl in China. Maybe this story will inspire some kind soul to step up.

This kind of thing breaks my heart. :(

While this sucks, it still beats being an orphan altogether. China has a huge problem with raising its children, we're not talking one, one thousand, or even one million: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-06/millions-of-chinas-children-left-behind/7816010 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35994481

Wonderfully the most beautiful!! But how come kooking gas, other eatables, dresses etc. are being arranged?! ....And how on Earth this innocent child dressed her up?! ...Is there some video clips are available there of this Great Homemaker (by default!)?!

I wish there's any solution to help 'em and let her study. I cannot believe this story because my 5 years old cousin is always thinking about Nintendo switch and that's absolutely natural

Amazing children are out there !

This is isn't fair. She deserves to be a child. :'(

Sad

There was a documentary here on television about "Prison-orphans", children of convicted criminals in China. The cases in the documentary were mostly of people on death row who had children. But in the base it was, that the whole family is basically tainted and guilty when one of them commits a crime. Yes, the children too. That's why they are shunned in society or even abandoned by the families. This happens especially in villages or more rural areas of China. The documentary was about an orphanage for such abandoned children, that was run by a former prison guard. She became concerned about the wellbeing of the children of the inmates and started this orphanage. I think this way of thinking steems from the idea, that the family is viewed as a whole entitiy, and not as a group of individuals. And if one of the family does a bad thing, it is sort of ingrained in the whole family. This is of course not true, but it is part of the thinking.

THE KIND OF STORY where I wonder less about the noble 5 yr old, and more about those who documented it. Someone alerted someone who professionally photographed this, somewhere the should be a story with this. Does Bored Panda just excerpt from other sources? And with or without photographers permission?

That last picture is heartbreaking

Someone should find the mother and charge her for abandoning this family. F*king heartless witch.

Ko Bok Sil!!

Oh baby :( I would love to offer help as well.

I am so sad :-( is there a way to help her My heart is breaking Can we all donate stuff to help her?

This is so unfair. A child her age should not have so much responsibility dumped on her shoulders. Do we know if anyone has/is doing anything to help her situation?

I don't know how to react to this piece. If only we had a way to help this child. She and her grandma's deserve so much better than this. This hurts me deeply, if only there was something we could all do to help her!

Wow

That picture of her crying kills me!!

I feel she is gonna have a good and bright future because of what she did!

The last picture of her crying made me cry! I mean who abandons their child to sick relatives that the daughter takes care of!?

Very sad, and the future does not look good unless someone adopts her. One day both her grandmas will pass on, i can't fathom how a parent could abandon their daughter...

Is there anyway to donate?