A Chinese schoolboy’s fate has caught the attention of millions of people after a picture of his icicle hair became widely shared online.
The child, from rural China, had just spent more than an hour walking 4.5 kilometres (2.8 miles) to school on a harsh winter morning, the Daily Mail reports.
Wearing a thin layer of clothes, the boy braved minus nine degree weather to sit an exam yesterday in a small town in Shaotong, southern China’s Yunnan Province.
The boy is said to be a third-grade pupil at the Zhuanshanbao Primary School in Xinjie Town, Ludian County, reported People’s Daily Online.
He comes from a less-fortunate family.
His father is a migrant worker in another city and his mother has abandoned him and his father, according to Pear Video.
The boy is named Wang Fuman and is eight years old, according to Pear Video, lives in a bare mud house in Ludian with his grandmother and his elder sister.
The headmaster of the school, surnamed Fu, said the child’s home is far from school and he spends more than an hour walking to school every day.
His classroom does not have heating.
