Nanchang couple runs kitchen for family of cancer patients

To ensure their "customers" can use the kitchen, Xiong and her husband must get up at 4 a.m. each day to make the preparations. They also need to clean the kitchen each time a family finishes cooking. Working 18-hour days, the couple have never shut the kitchen, even during the Spring Festival holiday, over the past 17 years.

Xiong Xianggen and her husband, Wang Zuocheng, are the founders of the "cancer-fighting kitchen." [Photo: provided to China Plus]

"For as long as I can move, I will persist in opening the kitchen," stated Xiong. "Even if there is no cure for some of the patients, at least they can eat well every day. Their mood will get better when enjoying the familiar taste and their families will not have as many regrets."

"We are physically tired, but it is sweet for our hearts," she admitted.

Health problems 和健康问题相关的词汇:

[àizībìng]艾滋病 AIDS

[pínxuè]贫血 anemia

[áizhèng]癌症 cancer

[tángniàobìng]糖尿病 diabetes

[xīnzàng bìng]心脏病 heart disease

[liúgǎn]流感 flu

[xiāochuǎn]哮喘 asthma

[gǎnmào]感冒 cold