origin: Beijing Youth Daily
over the past thirty years, the number of people who have funded Zhao Yongjiu has not been able to remember, but the amount of money added has reached sixteen seventy thousand yuan, and has funded thirty-seven poor students successively. To do charity, he sold his only apartment, so far he has rented it in a single room in Dadong District, which costs six hundred yuan a month.
56 years old, he has become a "little old man" for a long time, cleaning up the garbage every day, he can not wear decent clothes, and his shoes are dirty. In such a living condition, he still does not stop the charity of this grass root philanthropist. Speaking of the original intention of charity, Zhao Yongjiu told reporters: "in 1976, my father died, and my mother and I were left alone, living a life of no appetite." Later, my neighbors helped me to tide over the difficulties. I just came to live through the rice cakes. Let me feel the warmth from the society. At that time, I wanted to repay this love to the society.
in order to get a little more income, Zhao Yongjiu does two jobs every day, leaving home at half past four in the morning, cleaning up garbage in a district in Shenhe District, and arriving at the street for cleaning at noon, and getting off work at eight o'clock in the evening. It is already nine points at home.
for more than six months, Zhao Yongjiu has been living this way. Even so busy, Zhao Yongjiu's total income of two jobs is only two thousand and four hundred yuan. I have worked in the pedestrian street for a year, but I never went to any shopping mall nearby. "We are buried in fear of being abandoned." Zhao Yongjiu said. On the pedestrian street, he is responsible for the cleaning of thirty dustbins. He has to walk more than 10 times every day, and he calculates more than 600 times a day. He said: "the bamboo signature is often tied up, has been tied up dozens of times, sometimes in order to prevent the hand, he had to head into the garbage box, looking at the garbage in the inside."
2006 has been doing cleaning work since she was laid off at the textile equipment factory. On the way to work, Zhao Yongjiu saw a drink bottle and a box on the road. He stopped the bicycle and picked it up. In the single room he rented, the corner of the kitchen door was filled with picked up bottles.
he took out a plastic bag under his bed, which contained his honorary certificate and donation receipt. The donation amount ranges from tens to hundreds of yuan, though not much money, but he saves and saves on weekdays.
some people around him do not understand his behavior, and think he should first let himself live a good life and then do charity. But Zhao Yongjiu said, "my life is given by the society. Compared with those who fail to go to university, they are not bitter. No matter how much I can help, but with my strength, they have more hope.