Grandma Kong is from the western countryside of China. She has spent nearly 1years adopting(收养）and raising abandoned（被遗弃的）children. She gives them food to eat and sends them to school to get an2.
Kong first adopted an abandoned child in the 1970s. She found she couldn't stop there. Though in poor health, the kind woman 3 adopting abandoned children and raising them as her own. Over the last 48 years, she has adopted over 40 children. 4of them have grown up and become doctors or lawyers.
It costs Kong a lot to raise so many children. There were times she couldn't put enough 5on the table. She chose to leave home to look for leftovers（残羹剩饭）in the rubbish. To her great 6, things got much better with time. Now her grown-up children help her to bring up their 7brothers and sisters.
Kong always believes that education is the best way to get out of poverty（贫穷）, 8she makes sure that all her children go to school. She said, "I told my children that it was quite 9 for them to study hard and that it was their only chance to change their lives."
Kong's story has 10 thousands of people's hearts. Many of them say she is a great mother and a good example to follow.
