We’ve all heard some wonderful stories over the years about how the iPhone and iPad have helped people, but a new story out of China really tugs at the heart strings.

[ad#Google Adsense 300×250 in story]According to several Chinese new sources, a shoe cleaner in China saw someone with an iPad and asked if she could get online and help find her daughter. Apparently she hadn’t seen her daughter for five years.

Unfortunately, there wasn’t a network available for the Wi-Fi only iPad, so the person took the woman’s picture with her iPhone and distributed it through Weibo.

That tweet was re-tweeted over 100,000 times. Three days later, the daughter saw the mother’s photo and they were in touch again.

Photo Credit: Chengdu Commercial News