Volunteers help sick kids reach the top
- Chris McMillan
- Sep 8, 2024
- 1 min read
China Daily
6th June 2024
Volunteers help sick kids reach the top
Nine-year-old Lyu Jingwen, who is wheelchair-bound due to spinal muscular atrophy, scaled the peaks of Huangshan Mountain in Anhui province on Monday with the help of volunteers.
As part of a charity program to celebrate Children's Day, which was on Saturday, Jingwen and 38 other children with rare diseases from across the country were carried up the mountain.
"After learning about the mountain through a textbook in school, I had been dreaming of visiting it, but I thought I had no chance to make it to the top," she said.
Jingwen, who lives in Guangdong province, was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy when she was about two years old and cannot stand on her own.
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