27 juniors of Southwest Jiaotong University sold hand-made T-shirts on the streets of Chengdu, the capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province on Saturday, in order to collect money for the treatment of their teacher who caught leukemia one year ago.
Local newspaper, Chengdu Daily reports, Feng Bin, a teacher of graphic design, was diagnosed with acute leukemia in April 2006. Her hospitalization expenses were estimated to be 600,000 yuan, or about 75,000 US dollars, which the 28-year old teacher could hardly afford.
When the 27 students in Feng Bin's class heard the news, they started a campus campaign to collect money. More than 40,000 students and faculty members of the Southwest Jiaotong University donated about 70,000 yuan, or 8,500 US dollars in a month.
With the donations, Feng Bin's first-year of treatment, which cost about 240,000 yuan (about 30,000 US dollars), went smoothly.
However, the only hope for Feng Bin's survival lies in marrow transplantation. The surgery is planed to be carried out in 20 days, but she still hasn't scraped together enough money to pay for it.
The students then set up a second initiative to make use of their graphic design major and turn to the society for help.
The students chipped in 1,000 yuan to buy some T-shirts and spent two days drawing on them.
The T-shirts were sold at 50 yuan each in a leisure street where tourists gather. The students were delighted that they raised 5,100 yuan in the first day.
"When the tourists hear that we are raising funds to rescue our teacher, they usually make purchases without any hesitation. They also ask us to give their wishes to our teacher," one of the students said.
"The T-shirt will be a precious souvenir for my Chengdu tour," said Mr. Wu, a tourist from east China's Jiangsu Province who bought a T-shirt.
学生用自己学知识为老师筹款治疗白雪病
27名西南交通大学三年级学生周六在成都的大街小巷出售手工制作的T-shirt,成都是中国西南四川的省会.为了筹钱给一年前患白血病的老师. 据当地媒体,成都日报报道,冯彬是西南交通大学的图片设计专业老师,2006年4月诊断患白血病,她的住院治疗费用估计要6000,000元(折合75,000美元),28岁的年轻老师无法承受这笔治疗费用. 当冯彬所在班级的27名学生得知这一消息后,在校园内发动捐款,全校教职工和40000多名学生共捐款70000多元(折合8500美元). 通过捐助,冯彬平稳的度过第一年的治疗,总共花了240000元(折合30000美元). 然而,冯彬唯一的生存希望是骨髓移植,,手术20天后就要进行了,但治疗费用还没有筹到. 学生们用他们所学专业发起了第二轮捐款,向社会求助. 学生们花1000元买回T-Shirt,花两天时间在上面绘制图案. 每件T-shirt售50元,主要在游客集中的休闲小街销售,第一天就筹到了5100元,学生们感到很欣慰. “听说我们是为了救老师筹款,他们毫不犹豫的买下了T-shirt,他们还让我们传达对冯老师的祝福,”一位学生说. “这件T-Shirt将是我此次成都之旅的珍贵纪念品.”吴女士说,来自中国东部江苏省.
