Girl strives for ill mom
By Chen Xingjie |
April 23, 2010, Friday
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A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl in central China has been recycling garbage for three years to help raise the money to save her fatally ill mother.
Gong Linjun, a Tujia ethnic girl in Hunan Province's Zhangjiajie City, said she will keep on the tough job to save her mother, yesterday's Xiaoxiang Morning Post reported.
Her mother was diagnosed in 2007 with uremia - a fatal disease that could result in kidney failure. It costs more than 3,000 yuan (US$439) a month for her twice-weekly dialysis.
Gong's father, a severe liver-disease patient, traveled to other areas to work, leaving the mother with Gong, who was then six.
Gong had to take care of her mother's daily needs and all the household chores.
To make money, she decided to recycle garbage. On the road to school and back home every day, she picked up plastic bottles and cans and sold them at garbage recycling stations, usually earning 20 yuan a day.
Despite the tough life, she has performed excellently in academic studies, her teacher said.
Gong Linjun, a Tujia ethnic girl in Hunan Province's Zhangjiajie City, said she will keep on the tough job to save her mother, yesterday's Xiaoxiang Morning Post reported.
Her mother was diagnosed in 2007 with uremia - a fatal disease that could result in kidney failure. It costs more than 3,000 yuan (US$439) a month for her twice-weekly dialysis.
Gong's father, a severe liver-disease patient, traveled to other areas to work, leaving the mother with Gong, who was then six.
Gong had to take care of her mother's daily needs and all the household chores.
To make money, she decided to recycle garbage. On the road to school and back home every day, she picked up plastic bottles and cans and sold them at garbage recycling stations, usually earning 20 yuan a day.
Despite the tough life, she has performed excellently in academic studies, her teacher said.
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