Tibetan woman lives to help others

Some young people refuse to take in their own elderly parents today, but Nyima Pantok chose to foster a helpless older woman for 17 years, and 10 years ago took in an abandoned girl as her own.

Nyima Pantok works as a sanitation worker in Lhasa, capital city of the Tibet autonomous region.

Her name in the Tibetan language means being beneficial and helpful like the sun, and people around her say her name is fitting. They speak highly of her generous contributions, although her job is not a highly valued one in Lhasa.