This 95-Year-Old in China Is Saving His Village & Painting It Red!

The old man gets up at 3 am everyday to paint the village in a bid to save the area.
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95-year-old Huang Yong Fu painted the slum turning it to tourist attraction
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95-year-old Huang Yong Fu painted the slum turning it to tourist attraction
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Do you think about your age before taking up a task? Then we have some inspiration for you here. This war veteran from China is on a creative ambition to save a slum.

Ninety-five-year-old Huang Yong Fu, a veteran residing in the suburbs of Taichung, Taiwan, gets up at 3 am everyday to paint his village so that he can save it from destruction as part of a redevelopment project.

95-year-old Huang Yong Fu paints the village everyday.

His colourful murals soon convinced officials that the village – later dubbed 'Rainbow Village' – should stay. His artwork has turned the village into a top tourist attraction since.

Huang, who is originally from Hong Kong and fought in the Second Sino-Japanese war as a member of the Chinese Nationalist Party, came to Taiwan with his regiment in 1949. "I'm happy that a lot of people come to see my paintings. I'm truly blessed," Huang says.

(With inputs from AP)

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