Lisa is ten years old. She is handicapped（残疾的）. She could not dress herself or feed herself until a year ago. Her parents loved her, but they treated （对待） her like a baby.

Mr. Chen has a daughter and a son. They live far from their father. Mr. Chen felt lonely. He decided to do something about it. He volunteered （自愿做） to become a foster （收养的） grandfather to a handicapped child. And that was how he met Lisa. Mr. Chen became a foster grandparent to Lisa a year ago. At first, she was afraid because she didn’t know him. But he came to see her three times a week. Little by little, she began to like him. Lisa let Mr. Chen do things for her. He helped to dress her, told her stories and fed her. One day he came at lunchtime and fed her. He handed her the spoon and guided it to her mouth. He told her she must learn to feed herself. “Most of that lunch ended up on our clothes instead of in Lisa’s mouth,” Mr. Chen remembers. “But it was a start for Lisa. She learned to feed herself in a few months.” To become foster grandparents, people must be at least sixty years old and in good health. They are volunteers, so they don’t get money. Mr. Chen says, “The handicapped children benefit（受益）because we help them live more useful lives. And we benefit because we know the children need us and love us.”

There are nine retired (退休的) women in a team and they are from the Shipingcun Community. They take care of 25 students in the community. These women are kindly called “shared-grannies (共享奶奶)”. Working parents who don’t have time or friends to pick up their children need them very much.

Deng Lihong, 66, is a member of the team. She took part in the program as soon as she saw the advertisement. Every workday, she picks up the children from school at 3 p.m., and stays with them until their parents come.

After taking part in the activity, Deng said, “I feel young with the kids and my retired life becomes meaningful.” She tells us that soon after the start of the program, more and more people want to join in. A parent said, “I think other parts of the country should also carry out this activity.”

“We inspire the retired women to take part in this public service. ________ The sense of happiness means a lot to them,” Peng Mei said.

To help lost people reunite (团聚) with their family, a woman from East China’s Shandong Province has become a self-taught “dialect master (方言大师) ”.

Tan Yinghuan is a 43-year-old woman from Dezhou. She has taught herself a lot of dialects from different areas in China over the past nine years. And she has helped more than 300 people reunite with their lost loved ones.

In 2014, Tan joined a chat group that shares information on families looking for lost loved ones. She met a girl named Xiao Jiang. The girl grew up with her adopted (领养) parents. By studying the dialect and childhood memories of the girl, Tan found the hometown of the girl. One year later, the girl went back to her hometown and reunited with her birth parents. That was the first time she felt what she did was really helpful. Since then, Tan has spent all her free time helping people look for their family.

As those people are from different parts of the country, Tan finds it difficult to understand what they say. If she doesn’t understand it, she would record it and listen repeatedly (重复地) , sometimes for days or weeks on end.

“I am glad to use what I have learned to help others,” Tan said. “I don’t want anything in return.”