Chinese boy, 10, goes begging to help pay for cancer-stricken mother’s treatment

A 10-year-old boy from northeastern China sneaked out of his house and begged in a local city square to raise funds to help treat his mother with leukaemia, a news website reported.

The boy, Zhang Huanyu, was sent back to his home village in Jilin province by a couple after they saw him begging in Liaoyuan for a whole day last week, Sohu.com reported.

Zhang begged using a cardboard sign saying, “Please, warm-hearted people, help my mother who has leukaemia.”

Zhang’s grandparents, who had been searching for him, cried when he handed over a stack of cash and asked them to mail the money to his mother Xu Wei in Beijing.

Xu is a single mother who first fell ill in 2016, according to the report.