Mission over, but volunteer chooses to stick around

Cai Sheng's time working with people disabled in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake was meant to end last year, but he was not ready to leave. So he refused.

The Hunan province native became a volunteer and then a project manager for the NGO Handicap International in Sichuan province's Mianzhu city after the disaster five years ago. He worked with the county hospital to develop rehabilitation services that were desperately needed by people disabled in the quake. He focused on paralyzed survivors.

Handicap International ended its project in Mianzhu last year. But instead of returning home, Cai stayed and registered his own NGO - You and Me Community - at the end of 2012.