She is a seller of vegetables, so she is not very rich. And she is always low-key but donated all she can for the people who indeed. She is 61 now, never married, only has primary school education certificate, and she began to sell vegetables since she was 13. Her mother died because of illness, and she has 6 younger siblings, therefore she needed to work to keep her family. And then since at that time, not every one had the right to be sick, one of her brother was also died because of illness. In nearly half a century, she donated around $320,000 USD and adopt 3 children. And then she got the 8 of the hero ranking in The 2010 TIME 100. After Taiwan television reported the behavior of her, she refused media interviews with her, she did not want to be famous. Until recently even our president phoned to her and hoped her participate in the award for Time magazine. Much more report from here.
Even though this is a tip of the iceberg in Taiwan, our society has this kind Buddhist concept, I am still proud of her behavior. Her life is very ordinary, but her behavior is very great. She is one of my role models. I hope I can adopt more than 50 children in the future.
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