Lottery funds helping poor children with heart disease, leukemia

Over the past decade, an increasing number of impoverished children with severe illnesses have turned to public welfare funds operated by the Chinese Red Cross Foundation, with over 90,000 children with leukemia and congenital heart disease having received timely financial aid by the end of last year.

These public welfare funds include two projects — the Little Angel Fund for patients under 18 with leukemia, and the Angel Sunshine Fund for those under 14 with congenital heart disease.

In 2009 and 2011, supported by the Ministry of Finance, these funds became eligible for being topped up by the central special lottery public welfare fund, to further aid for these children.