Help Mengnan finish school
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Many viewers have contacted Foreign Correspondent wanting to help Wang Jindong and his family, who featured in our story “Tipping Point”, about China’s waste.
Wang Jindong lives in a shack without power or water on Beijing’s outskirts with his wife and nephew Mengnan, 11. He took in the boy to stop him being sold by his ailing father.
Wang comes from central China and supports his family through rubbish collecting, each bottle earning him less than a cent apiece. He’s able to earn around $25 – 30 a week, allowing him to feed his family and pay Mengnan’s school fees.
“For his growth, his schooling, I would bear any hardship,” says Wang.
Mengnan attends a school set up for the children of the city’s migrant workers – that is, workers who’ve moved to Beijing from other parts of China.
But the lives of Wang and his family are precarious. The house they live in has been slated for demolition and Wang must soon find alternative accommodation. Despite the pressures of living in Beijing, Wang is determined to stay there and for Mengnan to finish school.
“I wish, in future, he could go into a university. If not, I hope he could master a skill and support himself for the rest of his life. My hope is that for his whole life, he has food to eat. He could set up his family and career then I would have done my job.”
Mengnan attends the Mingyuan Migrant School.
Any money raised here will be split between Mingyuan Migrant School for Mengnan and the Wang family directly.
Wang Jindong lives in a shack without power or water on Beijing’s outskirts with his wife and nephew Mengnan, 11. He took in the boy to stop him being sold by his ailing father.
Wang comes from central China and supports his family through rubbish collecting, each bottle earning him less than a cent apiece. He’s able to earn around $25 – 30 a week, allowing him to feed his family and pay Mengnan’s school fees.
“For his growth, his schooling, I would bear any hardship,” says Wang.
Mengnan attends a school set up for the children of the city’s migrant workers – that is, workers who’ve moved to Beijing from other parts of China.
But the lives of Wang and his family are precarious. The house they live in has been slated for demolition and Wang must soon find alternative accommodation. Despite the pressures of living in Beijing, Wang is determined to stay there and for Mengnan to finish school.
“I wish, in future, he could go into a university. If not, I hope he could master a skill and support himself for the rest of his life. My hope is that for his whole life, he has food to eat. He could set up his family and career then I would have done my job.”
Mengnan attends the Mingyuan Migrant School.
Any money raised here will be split between Mingyuan Migrant School for Mengnan and the Wang family directly.
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