Home is where heart is

British therapist returns to Central China to work for disadvantaged children. Liu Xiangrui and Feng Zhiwei report.

Even after British rehabilitation therapist Alison Kennedy's six-month-long voluntary work for a charity in Central China's Hunan province, had ended in 2004, her mind remained occupied with her "unfinished" chapter. Two years later, she returned to China from her home country to resume the social work and has lived here since.

The 43-year-old works for the Chuntian Service Center, a nonprofit that is located in Hengyang, and it was jointly established in 2005 by the city's civil affairs bureau and the charity International China Concern.