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Home>Service> Awardees of Fervent Global Love of Lives Award> 3rd Fervent Global Love of Lives Award 2000> Japan a doctor in wheelchair-Luo Shih Ling
Climbing up life’s mountain and winning the dignity
      Luo Shih-Ling, female, Japanese, born in 1956, suffered from infantile paralysis in her childhood, encountered with many difficulties in her growth-up; with great efforts and strong willpower, she was admitted to the Philosophy Department, Taiwan Culture University.
      To climb up life’s mountain and win the dignity, she won “Scholarship of Sino-Japan Exchange Association” as the first physically& mentally-retarded person; she was admitted to Kyushu University in 1985, and obtained the Master’s degree of psychology in 1990 with excellent performance, then continued in pursuit of doctor’s degree of pedology in Education College, Kyushu University, and became a doctor candidate in 1997 as the first disabled person in Japan.
      She won several times the superior awards of NHK Essay-Writing Competition of Disabled Persons, and was highly praised by NHK TV, especially for her composition--“the thinking of an overseas student in wheelchair”. In the past decade, she could live independently in Japan without casting the shadow on herself, proving that she could own her own life through actions and achievements. She often said: “we seek for respect and support of the world, not mercy “.