Chinese father dresses as Peppa Pig to sell pancakes to pay for daughter’s medical treatment
Eye-catching stunt is intended to raise money to treat four-year-old’s diabetes
A man dressed as Peppa Pig has been selling pancakes on the streets of a city in northern China in an attempt to raise money for his four-year-old daughter’s medical treatment, Qilu Newspaper reported.
Zhou Yingfang, 35, moved to Jinan in Shandong province to raise funds to treat his daughter’s diabetes and has been working odd jobs.
Because his home is famous for its pancakes, he decided to start selling them to supplement his income.
Most evenings he puts on the eye-catching outfit and takes a motorised pedicab carrying the snacks onto the streets accompanied by his 10-year-old daughter and a handwritten placard outlining the family’s plight.
The second daughter was diagnosed with Type I diabetes two years ago. The family already spent 230,000 yuan (US$36,500) on treating her illness, 160,000 yuan of which were borrowed from their friends and relatives.
“She was diagnosed with the condition in October 2016. At that time, she was just two years old,” Zhou told Pear Video in a film posted online on Wednesday.