Chen Zixu is a retired （退休） worker. Over the past 23 years，he （raise）11 million yuan to help 1 ，955 students from poor families in Liling，Hunan Province.
In Chen's childhood，he expected （change） his life by studying. However，because of his poor family，he even didn't finish primary school. "growing up，whenever I saw children in need，I'd always hope to do something for them，" he said.
After retiring，Chen finally （carry） out his ideas. He began to collect information about students from poor families by riding across the city. In the beginning，Chen gave his own money，but later he had another great idea. "I used to send 20 students' information to the newspaper，" he said. "To my （excite），it encouraged many kind people to give a helping hand. "
From then on，Chen had more confidence （自信） in helping more children. And to provide the helperstrue information，he kept on visiting every student's home. Over the years，Chen has travelled （thousand） of kilometers across the city and written descriptions of 1，955 students in 66 notebooks.
"Sometimes things got much （bad） and nobody understood me，but I never gave up，" he said. "（lucky），I got lots of trust from kind people. A number of poor students got enough help and continued their studies. I will never stop my work. "
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