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Vietnamese street vendor stands by cancer-stricken adopted daughter (photos)

Street vendor Huynh Thi Ngoc Diep has devoted her life to taking care of her adopted daughter, who has suffered a brain tumor

Vietnamese street vendor stands by cancer-stricken adopted daughter (photos)

A Vietnamese street vendor has not only adopted a 20-day-old girl as her daughter, but has also been with her in her battle against cancer.

Eleven years ago, Huynh Thi Ngoc Diep, from the southern city of Can Tho, brought home a little girl who was abandoned only 20 days after she was born.

The woman, who sells sticky rice on the street, named her adopted daughter Ngoc Nu and raised her together with her son.

Diep said that 10 years before she met Nu, she had been married and had a son.

“My husband decided to move to Saigon for work as our life in Can Tho was tough, but then he left us for another woman,” she recounted.

Diep became the family’s breadwinner and earned a living for two until the day she heard about the little girl abandoned in hospital.

That was when the family became three.

However, as if life had not been hard enough, a few months ago, Nu was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in her brain.

Since then, Diep has brought the adopted daughter, who she loves like her own, to Ho Chi Minh City for surgery.

Nu is under the care of the Oncology Hospital, and though it is hard for the young woman, she always has her mother by her side.

 She never lets her daughter feel how hard she has to try.

Below are photos capturing Diep and her daughter taken by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper's photographer Ngoc Duong:

Đẫm nước mắt người mẹ bán xôi và đứa con nuôi ung thư

Diep takes Nu for a walk around the Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital, where she stands by her daughter’s side during her battle with cancer.

Đẫm nước mắt người mẹ bán xôi và đứa con nuôi ung thư

After chemotherapy, Nu has to rely on her mother for daily activities.

Đẫm nước mắt người mẹ bán xôi và đứa con nuôi ung thư

Diep feeds her daughter at the hospital.

Đẫm nước mắt người mẹ bán xôi và đứa con nuôi ung thư

Diep takes Nu on a bicycle to the hospital for health checks while her daughter excitedly enjoys the street around her.

Đẫm nước mắt người mẹ bán xôi và đứa con nuôi ung thư

After bringing her daughter to the hospital, Diep gets back to work selling sticky rice.

Đẫm nước mắt người mẹ bán xôi và đứa con nuôi ung thư

Nu falls asleep in pain during a blood transfusion.

Đẫm nước mắt người mẹ bán xôi và đứa con nuôi ung thư

Diep helps her daughter to walk.

Đẫm nước mắt người mẹ bán xôi và đứa con nuôi ung thư

The love from her mother is the strength for Nu during her battle with cancer.

Đẫm nước mắt người mẹ bán xôi và đứa con nuôi ung thư

Diep helps Nu to study to ensure she does not forget her school lessons when she gets back to school.

Đẫm nước mắt người mẹ bán xôi và đứa con nuôi ung thư

Nu looks pale in their tiny room.

Đẫm nước mắt người mẹ bán xôi và đứa con nuôi ung thư

Diep bursts into tears talking about her daughter’s illness.

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