Maria Shriver

Betty Chinn

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Blog Posts

• June 7, 2011

  How I Did It

  

  Betty Chinn, Founder, Betty's Blue Angel

  My mission to care for the homeless and less fortunate takes root in the experiences of my childhood, when my family was targeted and torn apart by the Red Guard of China’s Cultural Revolution. With my mother imprisoned and my siblings hauled off to labor camps, I was left homeless in the streets, forced to wear a wooden sign proclaiming me a “child of the devil.” After spending four years enduring hunger pains, ostracism and a campaign of torture, I escaped, along with three of my siblings, and walked hundreds of miles to freedom in Hong Kong, eventually making my way to the United States.