{"id":1199,"date":"2018-05-01T10:07:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T02:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2018\/05\/01\/boy-does-homework-on-freeway-overpass-because-home-is-too-dark\/"},"modified":"2024-12-28T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T05:38:11","slug":"boy-does-homework-on-freeway-overpass-because-home-is-too-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/boy-does-homework-on-freeway-overpass-because-home-is-too-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Does Homework On Freeway Overpass Because Home is Too Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Qu Sinian, an 8-year-old from Guizhou Province\u2019s capital Guiyang in southwest China, has been forced to do his homework on an overpass daily because his home has poor lighting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Qu Sinian, an 8-year-old from Guizhou Province\u2019s capital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/jobs\">Guiyang in southwest China<\/a>, has been forced to do his homework on an overpass daily because his home has poor lighting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FsGd7LbnNtnVKn4G0Jc2fKgb_oJn?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20180108141933.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Apple Daily<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Qu, a second-grade student, is accompanied by his ill mother, Li Gaoju, after school on the overpass beside their home as he does his homework while cars honk and drive past them, as seen on Chinese video sharing platform Pear Video.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Flk2M72V4aw31z7w4fCxqC1OBIbF?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20180108141935.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Apple Daily<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The boy does his homework on the overpass for about four hours every day or until nightfall, according to the Daily Mail. He and his mother will then go back home to their small 8-square-meter (26-square-foot) rented room next to the 164-foot-high flyover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur room has poor lighting. It\u2019s too dark. Our family is too poor. (He) has to come here to do homework, there is no other way,\u201d the boy\u2019s mother told the reporter in the video while weeping.<\/p>\n<p>Qu\u2019s father was a migrant worker who moved from his hometown in Sichuan Province to Guiyang to work. However, the father became disabled after falling from heights while working eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s mother, meanwhile, has a heart <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/condition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">condition<\/a> that makes her unable to work. His father is the family&#8217;s sole breadwinner sole breadwinner of the family, now working as a motorcycle driver.<\/p>\n<p>He earns around 1,000 yuan ($153) per month. Nearly half of the money goes to room rent which costs 400 yuan ($61), and about 100 yuan ($15) on coal for cooking and keeping warm on cold nights.<\/p>\n<p>Qu is a top straight-A student in his school. He dreams of becoming a doctor when he grows up so that he can earn good money and treat his mom and dad at the same time, he explained to the reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Nextshark<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fr4MF5a2_FQCuZqmK-74Hkjndjug?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"gic qr-code.jpg\" width=\"1433\" height=\"1434\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qu Sinian, an 8-year-old from Guizhou Province\u2019s capital Guiyang in southwest China, has been forced to do his homework on an overpass daily because his home has poor lighting. 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