Student volunteer Suoang Qiuzhan says it is her duty to help victims of the devastating earthquake that struck her hometown, Jiegu, eight days ago.
A third-year student majoring in Chinese at Qinghai University for Nationalities, the 22-year-old Tibetan has volunteered to help out at the Qinghai Provincial People's Hospital since the disaster hit.
Her primary task is to translate between Chinese and the Tibetan dialect spoken in Yushu county.
Hundreds of survivors from Jiegu, mostly Tibetans, have been sent to the hospital for treatment since April 14 and most cannot speak Chinese.
'Those volunteers are like angels and they've done a great job,' orthopaedic department head nurse Xu Anna said. 'In the first few days after the quake, we were having tremendous difficulties in understanding each other - between doctors and patients - and they helped us overcome the language barrier.'
Suoang Qiuzhan is helping a Tibetan monk from the Shangu Monastery, 25 kilometres from Jiegu, which collapsed in the tremor. With a broken leg, he was lucky to be among more than 200 monks who survived. At least 23 monks were killed.