She grew up living with a grandmother.
Although she lived in the city, her grandmother was an elderly woman without children.
She didn't have a house and lived in an iron shack in the suburbs.
She knew there was no blood relationship between herself and the grandmother.
She was picked up by the grandmother, who said she found her in a trash can.
When she was found, she was only the size of a palm.
It was the grandmother who collected waste to exchange for money and bought rice to grind into powder, cooking it into rice paste and feeding her bit by bit.
Without the grandmother, she would have died in the trash can long ago.
The grandmother passed away when she was eight.
From then on, she became an orphan, living alone in the iron shack.
Surrounding the shack were fields, and a kind family gave her a piece of land to grow vegetables to sell, and their son taught her to read and do math.
After she grew the vegetables, she went to the market to sell them herself.
