Mum sells paper planes to raise medical funds

A MOTHER in Baoding City in Heibei province, China, had to sell folded paper planes to raise medical funds for her five-year-old daughter, who suffers from neuroblastoma cancer.

China Press reported that the woman had to beg people on the streets to buy the paper planes priced at one yuan (RM0.64) each to raise funds.

She knelt down and sobbed, saying that one paper plane could help extend a minute of her daughter’s life.

The ailing girl, Xiao Mei, stood beside her mother and wiped away the latter’s tears.

The report stated that the mother had spent more than 700,000 yuan (RM450,000) on Xiao Mei’s medical bills.

Neuroblastoma cancer is known to affect children and about 80% to 90% of patients are diagnosed with the chronic disease before the age of five.

> A father in Jiangsu province, China, spent 108 days travelling more than 30,000km across 26 countries to send his daughter to her university in Seattle, Sin Chew Daily reported.

Huang Haitao said he promised Xinyi that he would “drive her to the university” if she got a placement in the United States.

“I also want her to have a different experience. This is the first lesson for her university degree, to learn to interact with people of different races,” he said.

The father-and-daughter team departed from Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu, and arrived in Russia on June 1, and travelled across Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland and other countries.

They also travelled to France, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and Britain before ferrying their car through the Atlantic Ocean to the United States.

They arrived at Seattle University on Sept 11. It was learnt that the father and daughter had also gone on road trips to Eurasia and the Arctic when Xinyi took a sabbatical in her ninth grade.