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Some young people refuse to take in their own elderly parents today, but Nyima Pantok chose to take care of a helpless older woman for 17 years, and 10 years ago took in a deserted girl as her own. Nyima Pantok works as a sanitation(环卫) worker in Lhasa, capital city of Tibet. The people around her speak highly of her generous contributions, although her job is not a highly valued one in Lhasa. “She is a kind-hearted woman, and she always takes the interests as the whole into account,” says Basang, one of her colleagues.” Although she had an accident in the past, and she suffered from gallbladder and heart disease, she always helps others , “ she says. In 1996, when Nyima Pantok was 26 and unemployed,she adopted a 62-year-old named Tsering, an orchard keeper in Tibet’s Daktse County 30 kilometers away from Lhasa. Tsering was childless, and had been living alone in the orchad since the death of her husband, Nyima Pantok says. “I consider meeting the lonely older woman to be an arrangement of fate. It is not fair to leave her alone after meeting her ,”says Nyima Pantok. The older woman made a living by collecting fruits in the orchard and selling them in the market. “Bad kids often came to steal her fruits, so there weren’t many left,” she says. The hard situation made Nyima Pantok think of her dead parents .She decided to adopt the old woman without any hesitation. The old woman passed away in 2012. “I had promised her that when she reached the age of 80, all my family would celebrate her birthday. What a pity! I could not fulfill the wish.” Nyima adopted a deserted baby in 2004, whom she found in a vegetable plot and took home without a second thought. Nyima Pantok’s family was not rich then. She took odd jobs and her husband did not have a stable job. The arrival of an elderly woman and a baby girl added great burdens to her family. However, Nyima Pantok once helped send another colleague’s child with a birth disease to a hospital.” She paid all the medic