Determined elderly woman scrimps and saves, gives her life to dozens of infants who were dumped by their birth parents
A hospital cleaner in China who adopted 38 abandoned infants over a decade has been nominated as a National Moral Model.
Tang Caiying, 88, is a retired cleaner from a hospital in Xinyu, in southeastern China’s Jiangxi province, the mainland media outlet The Paper reported.
Between the 1980s and 1990s, she adopted more than 30 children.
One winter day in 1982, a 46-year-old Tang found a baby girl wrapped in a cotton coat, abandoned beside railway tracks on her way to work.
At the time, Tang was already the mother of five children, the youngest of which was 12 years old.
Her second daughter, Aiping, who had just graduated from secondary school and was unemployed, stayed at home to help care for Fangfang.
A few years later, Tang discovered another abandoned baby girl at her hospital and named her Zhenzhen, which means “precious gift”.
From then on, she continued rescuing abandoned infants, eventually taking in 36 more.
