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    By Wang Qian | China Daily | Updated: 2021-01-14 10:38
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    A 4-year-old boy with spinal muscular atrophy meets his hero Ultraman in July 2019. [Photo provided to China Daily]

    Realizing dreams

    As of December, 156 children have been granted their wish thanks to the charity organization, according to Xu, 33.

    It aims to help children and teenagers, aged between 2 and 18, with a critical illness, realize their dreams.

    Take cancer, one of the main causes of non-accidental deaths in children, for example. According to the first Global Burden of Disease Study to assess childhood and adolescent cancer published in The Lancet Oncology journal, the number of new cancer cases in children and adolescents (aged 0-19 years) was around 416,500 globally in 2017. Data from the Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences showed that recorded childhood (younger than 15) cancers in China rose from about 92 new cases per million children in 2001 to 115 per million in 2010.

    "For these children, medical care and treatment matters, but what about their dreams or life goals," Xu says, adding that realizing their dreams may give them strength to fight the illness.

    The documentary Batkid Begins gave Xu the answer. It tells about the day in 2013 that the city of San Francisco transformed itself into Gotham to help a 5-year-old boy who had leukemia see his dream come true.

    "The film touched the softest and deepest part of my heart and I immediately searched online and found that there were no such organizations in China at that time," Xu remembers.

    He studied the operation of the Make-A-Wish Foundation in the documentary, a nonprofit organization founded in the United States in 1980. It aims to grant life-changing wishes for children with life-threatening illnesses. The Shanghai chapter of Make-A-Wish was set up in 2017.

    In 2016, he quit his job as a logistics engineer and persuaded a friend to participate in the project. With a total of 200,000 yuan ($31,000) as a startup fund, they set up Childream in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.

    "It was not easy at the beginning," Xu says, adding that most parents had not even thought about the future, let alone their children's dreams or wishes, because for them, the most important thing was to get enough money for treatment.

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