Representatives from Dantri/Dtinews visited Nguyen Manh Cuong in Nghi Loc District’s Nghi Van Commune on May 4 to transfer over VND100 million from readers that had been sent to the newspaper's charity fund and the Vietnam Fund for Study Promotion to support his family.
The family said they had also received over VND60 million from many donors since their story was published on Dantri/Dtinews Online.
The boy sends his sincere thanks to all kind donors for helping his family.
"Thanks to financial support, my mother can now go to hospital for treatment," his said. "We’re very grateful for your huge help."
The teenager has become the family breadwinner after the death of his grandparents as his mother Nguyen Thi Linh, who is 56, has mental problems.
According to some neighbours, Cuong's mother started showing signs of mental health problems after graduating from high school. Following treatment, she saw great improvement.
However, her condition worsened again after being raped by a stranger in 2008. After that, she became pregnant and gave birth to Cuong. Since then, she has only stayed at home and had almost no contact with anybody else, except for her family.
To date, Cuong has not yet discovered who his father is.
His mother often loudly screams and leaves home to wander outside. Sometimes, she faints in bed. After Cuong's grandparents died, he and his mother previously could only depend on the subsidy for poor households.
The family was too poor to cover Linh’s treatment. So she was tortured by her disease.
In the morning, Cuong goes to school and in the afternoon he tries to do some odd jobs to earn money. He faced dropping out of school due to financial difficulties.
