Mr. Zhu， 41 years old.   This is his 10th year working at Sherpa’s.

“I have never encountered a situation like this year before. It is false to say that I am not afraid.”

At the worst of the epidemic, he, like every food delivery man who shuttled through the streets, nervously delivered warm food quickly and safely to people’s homes. Every trip carried with it a feeling of lingering, unknown fear.

“Especially in January and February, when the number of confirmed diagnoses was soaring, everyone was afraid to go out, but the nature of our work required us to bite the bullet and stay outdoors.”

Mr. Zhu has two children. Even though he was worried about his own safety, he dared not stop working. His family needed to eat.

Shanghai is a welcoming city, full of opportunities and brilliance. But beauty and cruelty are often intertwined. There are tens of thousands of workers who are far away in a distant land like him, who have their families to care for. They are all brave.

“Everyone has their own social role to play.” 

Sanitation workers who have to clean the fallen leaves even if there is no one out on the road; medical workers who face the virus and have been fighting on the frontline of the epidemic for months; factory workers who produce masks and anti-epidemic materials on the assembly line 24 hours a day; chefs who make sure every dish is safe; couriers who ensure meals arrive in the hands of customers on time.

At the beginning of the outbreak, Sherpa’s equipped the delivery staff, including Master Zhu, with an ample supply of masks and hand sanitizers and conducted relevant preventive training. The food delivery boxes were disinfected morning, noon, and night, and the couriers’ body temperatures were measured every day to ensure the health and safety all the staff and customers.

We’d like to say thank you to all of our couriers for their hard work and dedication. They were a burst of shimmering light in a dark year.

对于每一位送餐师傅的付出和坚持，我们由衷地表示感谢！