Disabled Boy Walks To School On His Hands Each Day For The Past Four Years
A ten-year-old boy has reportedly
been walking to school on his hands each day for the past four years in China
after his legs were paralysed.
Yan
Yuhong,
from China's southwest Sichuan Province, suffered a serious fever when he was a
one-year-old which left him partially paralysed because his parents could not
afford medical treatment.
The 10-year-old does use crutches to
get around but said he prefers to walk on his hands to school because he can
move faster.
The journey takes him one-and-a-half
hours each way and he has to wake up long before all the other students to get
to class on time.
Yan's sister
carries his backpack for him and sometimes his grandmother — who has looked
after him since his parents moved to the city for work — carries him if he is
too tired.
Yan received a
government disability card last year and said authorities promised him a
wheelchair but he does not know when he will get it.
But Yan said he is determined to finish school regardless.
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