Rebecca Hamilton, 55, poses beside a wall full of pictures drawn by her "Chinese children" in a bilingual school of Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb 12, 2004.

Rebecca came to Yunnan from the State of Louisiana, the United States in 1997, and has funded through the years over 160 Chinese children from impoverished areas. She is now the "American Mom" of all these children.

(Xinhua News Agency February 13, 2004)