Yang Shuiying old man (right) Two) always walk around the building and road of his own participation in the donation, and look at the better and better of his hometown, she is very happy November 24th news of southeast network, the reason
the wall of Changle Monkey Island, standing a public morality monument, several lines of ancient text, recording the story of an overseas Chinese old man's donation to build his hometown In the United States for more than 20 years, the nanny saved and saved about 2000000 yuan, almost all of them used in the construction of her hometown. Roads, flood levees, health centers, old homes... Countless infrastructure facilities in the village are full of her sweat.
the overseas Chinese named Yang Shuiying is 86 years old. Every year, she always goes back to her hometown to see this place becoming strange because of her. She said: it is her greatest blessing that hard money can return to her parents.
yam New York to live a bowl when the baby sitter
a short hair, some old clothes, the eyes of the old Yang Shuiying, looks like the old man in the village, fuck the fluent Fuzhou dialect, the hand is full of hard cocoon left. At the age of 86, her body is not very good, but on the eve of national day this year, she still insists on returning home from New York. There are not many relatives in the village, but it is still the most worrying place for her.
"think about going to the United States for 34 years!" Yang Shuiying sighed. She told reporters that she was born in Mawei Ting Jiang town in 1929. When she was 16 years old, she married to Zheng Yu's family. Her husband made a living in Nanyang in the early years and later moved to the United States. When her husband arrived in New York in 1981, she was 52 years old.
the Yang Shuiying family was not good at the time in the United States, because he had been a housewife before going abroad. Yang Shuiying knew only a few words, and English was not the same, looking for work around the wall. I can only do some simple work in the shop of the Chinatown in Chinatown, "a dishwasher, a piece worker on the assembly line." Do everything. "
after a period of time in New York, she found that the pace of life here is very fast, and many young people who work do not have time to take care of their children, and the kindergartens in New York only receive children over 3 years old. "I do good housework and bring children is my strength." So Yang Shuiying opened a "trusteeship class" at home to help those Chinese care for children under the age of 3.
at the beginning, only nearby townships were sent to children, more and more children were sent, and even a lot of American family children, which made the more than 50 year old Yang Shuiying tired, "with 7 children a day at the most, they couldn't get up at night."
save money and save money to keep the childhood promise
a few years later in the United States, Yang Shuiying's family life is getting better, and she doesn't need her to make money so hard, but Yang Shuiying insists on being a babysitter. Because of this, in the United States for the first ten years or so, she was almost 1 kilometers away from home, but she had never been to a park and had not eaten a restaurant. "To go out is not to buy food, but to take children out for air."
Yang Shuiying's life was also very frugal, and the couple spent less than $300 a month, rarely buying new clothes, and Yang Shuiying saved the rest of the money. "At that time, my favorite thing was to put together a small sum of money and turn it into one hundred dollars before locking it in the drawer."
family members only when Yang Shuiying saved money because of the habit of frugality in his early years, in fact, Yang Shuiying has been calculating: when he returned to his hometown, he donated the money to the government for building his hometown. Yang Shuiying said that when she was four or five years old, her father always said to her that when the family got rich, they would donate money to the country, which was a piece of great merit. At that time, she made a promise to her father: "when I grow up and have money, I will repair the road for my hometown."
with hardship Qian Qianli returned home to donate her hometown to build
1996, and Yang Shuiying returned to her hometown. At that time, the Monkey Island village was very poor, not even a cement road. Zheng Xinhang, vice chairman of the city's Federation of overseas Chinese overseas, said that the village's main village road was only 216 meters, a long-term use of dirt road, the pavement is potholed, and the rain is muddy, "but even a short road, the village is seriously insufficient funds."
the road to see his hometown is still a mess of his departure. Yang Shuiying's heart is not so good. She actively found the village committee, expressed the willingness to donate money and repair the road, and took out all 150 thousand yuan in the United States as a nanny.
"we also know that it is not easy for her to earn money outside. She is so moved that she has brought us so many hard-earned money from the United States." Zheng Xinhang said that with this donation, the first cement road in the village soon passed. After
, Yang Shuiying returned to his hometown every year to ask whether there was any difficulty in the village committee. Later, she began to look at the missing facilities in the village, and launched donations from family members and overseas Chinese. Seeing that the village cultural palace was out of repair and dilapidated, she made the first donation of 100 thousand yuan, and also started the family to donate 300 thousand yuan, and persuaded hundreds of overseas Chinese to help each other. Today, the Cultural Palace is well equipped and has become the favorite place for children in the weekend.
in addition, Yang Shuiying also donated a lot of money to the Monkey Island flood embankment, the Monkey Island Park, the township health center, the maidangting Jiang Jinglao courtyard and other projects, and led the other villagers to transform the village road. "Preliminary statistics, in those years, she donated a total of about 2000000 yuan." Zheng Xinhang said.
grandchildren fully support the relay elderly good
"these elderly, have done no nanny." Yang Shuiying said, but for her approach, the family is still supportive. "At first my husband did not understand why I had donated all the hard earned money, but when I took him back home and saw the new road, the new look of his hometown, he fully supported me." Yang Shuiying was particularly pleased that now her children and grandchildren, like her, often donate money for home construction. "They always told me not to be too frugal, saying they have worked together now."
Yang Shuiying said that as long as she had the strength, there was still a penny in her pocket, and she would stick to it. "Many people ask me to give away so much money. It's not true. The money left is enough for you to spend, and the more people you can enjoy in your home construction, this is a greater blessing. "