A city worker designated to sorting donated relief items for vulnerable people has found 59,116.20 Ghanaian cedis equivalent to about $10,140 cash that had been stored in red envelopes and placed in packed clothing and bags.
The social worker was sorting through bags of donated clothes at a collection site in the city when he found the cash and notified his supervisor.
Huang Chi-lung, 28, is a Taiwanese with the city Cleanup Team .
The shocking incident was reported by the Taichung Nantung District Environmental Protection Bureau .
A search conducted was able to identify the person who made the donation.
Officials then took the bag that contained the money to a local police station for safekeeping and collection by the owner.
The money belongs to the husband of a 72-year-old woman(Zou), who said her husband had gathered the clothes to be donated without realizing one of the items contained the envelopes of money she had been saving for retirement and a wedding gift for her daughter.
The Environmental Protection Bureau reported that , Zou brought the Cleanup Team a basket of apples to show her gratitude for the return of her money.
Source:A1radionline|101.1MHZ|Ghana
