‘Rainbow Grandpa’ saves village by painting buildings with colourful art
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Rainbow Grandpa is a 97-year-old ex-soldier who saved his village in Taiwan from demolition*.
The village is called Rainbow Village. The village is named so because is filled with colourful art.
- Rainbow Village was originally a poor village which was set to be demolished.
- 10 years ago, Grandpa Rainbow, whose real name is Huang Yung-Fu, began painting art on his house. Now his paintings have filled the village.
- He started to paint because he was lonely and wanted to save his village.
Due to his efforts, the government decided not to demolish the village and now it is a famous tourist spot.
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Rainbow Grandpa still continues to paint every day. Isn’t it inspiring?
*Demolition: To completely destroy a building to build something else.
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