On winter nights, the wind usually blows strongly. Most of us stay inside our warm homes. Few of us think about the homeless. They have no choices but to sleep on the streets. Some of them are so poor that they have no money to buy food.

A young man in Birmingham, England, decided to do something about this. Every night, he puts on a Spider Man suit and gives food to the homeless he meets. He makes sure that these people won’t go hungry.

The man refuses to make his name public. The local people call him the “Birmingham Spider-Man.” The young man hopes his action will show others that everybody should give helping hand.

The 24-year-old started his night rounds in 2015. Every night at 9:00, he buys some sandwiches. Then, he finds a quiet alley (小巷) and puts on his “uniform”. After that, the “Spider- Man” starts handing his food out to people in need.

The man said he wore the Spider-Man suit in order to draw attention. Without the suit, few people took a second look at him when he was handing out food. When people see the “Spider-Man,” however, they come over and ask what he is doing.

“The Birmingham Spider Man” has already attracted lots of attention. Many people have offered to give away money to him. But the young man never accepts donations. Instead, he encourages people to go out and help people in need on their own. He said, “If more people offer a helping hand, the cold winter nights won’t be so cold any longer.”

Yan Mingyou is 93 years old, but he still works as a music teacher in Anhui Province.

Yan is from a small town of Anhui. He worked there as a rural(乡村的) music teacher for about 40 years. In 1990, he retired when he was 60. But after he learned some rural schools were short of music teachers, he decided to go on teaching. “I usually have six music lessons at a school and five lessons at another school every week,” the man said. To make his lessons more interesting, Yan started to learn to play the piano in 2006 when he was 77 years old. At the age of 80, Yan felt that he was too old to teach music. But the children wanted him to stay. “Students wanted me to teach music. So I decided to go on teaching,” Yan said.

He doesn’t stop there. Yan also uses some of his money to help students in need. Liu Dandan is one of the students he helped. About ten years ago, Liu, then a student in Grade 5, had to stop schooling because her family didn’t have enough money. When Yan heard about that, he helped the girl. “I try my best to help children in need,” the old man said.

“I feel happy to teach music,” Yan said. “For children in rural schools, music is a way to help them make their dreams come true.”