Zhai Rao (third from right) joins volunteers and university students in delivering free lunches to seriously ill patients and their family members at the back gate of a hospital in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, Oct. 27, 2026. (Photo: China News Service/Zhou Yanling)
Since April 2026, Zhai Rao and Xiong Zehui, both born in the 1980s, have been providing free lunches, milk and eggs to seriously ill patients and their family members behind a hospital in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, from Monday to Friday.
The two have also rented a house about 20 square meters near the hospital to serve as a charity kitchen, where they spend over three hours each day preparing more than 100 meals. Through their efforts, they hope to offer practical support to patients with cancer and other serious illnesses, as well as their families.
A photo taken on Oct. 27, 2026 shows a bowl of lotus root and pork rib soup prepared by Zhai Rao and Xiong Zehui for seriously ill patients and their family members in Guiyang, Guizhou Province,. (Photo: China News Service/Zhou Yanling)
A patient’s family member who received a free lunch shakes hands with a volunteer in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, on Oct. 27, 2026. (Photo: China News Service/Zhou Yanling)
Volunteer Zhai Rao and a patient’s family member chop Chinese cabbage outside the charity kitchen in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, on Oct. 27, 2026. (Photo: China News Service/Zhou Yanling)
A volunteer (back) return to the charity kitchen after delivering meals, Oct. 27, 2026. (Photo: China News Service/Zhou Yanling)
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