Chinese teen helps mum carry bricks at construction site to earn university tuition
Wei says working together helped her daughter deeply understand the daily struggles she had previously only seen from afar
A secondary school graduate in China, unlike many of her peers who travelled after sitting for the national university entrance exam, chose to work alongside her mother at a construction site.
To earn money for her university tuition fees, she carried bricks on her back.
The girl, nicknamed Yuanyuan, is the daughter of Wei Yungui, a dedicated labourer at construction sites in southern China’s Guangdong province for the past 16 years, as reported by the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald.
The 40-year-old Wei is a single mother and the sole financial supporter for her daughter and son, both of whom are “left-behind” children in their hometown of Qidong county, central Hunan province.