Fuman, 8-year-old, was photographed at the arrival to the school, in China, on Monday. The chapped hands, the frozen hair, the red cheeks: the picture went around the world !
He walks to school by -9 ° C !
Every day, the boy travels 4.5 kilometers to Zhuan Shan Bao Primary School in Yunnan, a province in the south-west of the country.
Last Monday, January 8, the trip was particularly difficult. The cold has come down on the region, unaccustomed to such low temperatures. The thermometer went down to -9 ° C. Badly equipped, Fuman arrived at the frozen school. His teacher then took a picture of him and published it on a Chinese social network.
The image shocks the country !
Since then, Fuman has been nicknamed "the ice boy". He recalls extreme poverty in rural areas of the country, where families often live in precarious conditions. The boy, meanwhile, would live alone with his sister and grandmother, according to a Chinese media outlet. His father worked in the city and he only came home every 4 or 5 months.
Faced with the situation, many citizens sent donations, in the form of money, food or equipment for the winter, to help the inhabitants and school children of the village.