Ethel Groce, Lady with a Mission, article in Maclean's, 1961 - page 4

When she rejoined the Oriental Boat Missions in Canton two years later, she found refugees pouring into South China as the Communist armies moved south.  "Almost every day girl children were offered to me - for a price." she says.  "Some I paid for, to keep them out of the hands of wicked old Chinese women who would have sold them as slaves.  Others I found abandoned at the side of the road or along the banks of the river." 

She has delivered countless babies by the dim light of a lantern aboard junks and sampans.

"Each time I deliver a child I fall in love with it," she says.  "The children all call me Mama, and their mothers think of me as a godmother."