70-Year-Old Beijing Granny Delivers Water To Support Family

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70-Year-Old Beijing Granny Delivers Water To Support Family
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70-year-old lady delivers water to support entire family, children and grandchildren suffer serious illnesses
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70-year-old Gao Meiyun, in order to support the entire family and pay for her son and grandson’s medical care, must repeat these steps every day nearly 100 times. A 20kg bottle of water before this 37.5kg elderly person is truly too heavy. In order to support her physically handicapped son and mentally handicapped grandsom, 70-year-old Gao Meiyun alone shoulders the burden of financially supporting the entire family. To make a living, she opened a water store, becoming the well-known “Water Delivery Granny” in a neighborhood of [Beijing's] Shijingshan District Yangzhuang Middle District.

Every day, the morning and evenings are the peak hours. It doesn’t matter if it is 6 in the morning or 10 at night, no matter if it is windy or raining, as long as a customer calls, the old lady will immediately deliver the water to their door. Transporting [water] over time has caused her back to become severely hunched. The old lady has written a letter to this newspaper seeking kind-hearted peoples’ help, help to provide medical care to her son and grandson, to help them get past this difficult time.

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70-year-old lady swindled

Summary: 70-year-old granny Gao depends on delivering bottled water to support her physically handicapped son and mentally handicapped grandson. After her circumstances were reported by the media, kind-hearted city residents donated over 100,000 yuan within three days. However, her neighbors have instead accused her of “swindling money”. With regards to this, the neighborhood district office/committee has released a statement showing that the Gao family has a monthly income of 3000 yuan, and their basic livelihood is guaranteed [they already have enough money].
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