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    Living for a Cause

    May 14, 2020 4 minutes
    By Wei Hongchen
    Copyedited by Rebeca Toledo

    At the age of 18, Michael Hermann from Dortmund, then part of the Federal Republic of Germany, decided to become an international volunteer. Since 2005, he has worked in China on poverty alleviation and disease control in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, as well as Chongqing Municipality in southwest China, as the representative of the Federation for Associations Connected to the International Humana People-to-People Movement (FAIHPP) in China. He has no plan to ever leave.

    Through the years, Hermann has popularized planting technologies among Chinese farmers, spread knowledge on preventing HIV/AIDS and raised funds to help impoverished children in

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