A young Chinese woman just showed how much she loves her sick sister that she was willing to become a human dartboard to raise 350,000 for her sibling’s leukemia treatment.
The South China Morning Post reported that Ji Jiali, from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, posted a sign next to a dartboard that she would accept 10 yuan per throw, with her in the middle. The amount she needed to raise was for the bone-marrow transplant of her sister Jiayan.
Photos of Ji Jiali spread on social media and became viral. Netizens initially criticized her for begging for money. Beside currency, she was willing to accept online payments through Alipay and WeChat and deposits to her bank accounts.
Actually, before her story became viral, Jiayan’s running away from home was headline in China a few months ago because although a suitable donor was found for the bone-marrow transplant which would save her life, her family did not have the money to pay for the procedure.
Jiayan is currently confined in a hospital in Kunming, Yunnan Province. She is unaware of what Ji Jiali did to raise money for the transplant, although she regrets her rash action. As it is, their family does not have money to pay for her sister’s hospital fees.
According to Nature, there are at least 50 active bone marrow transplant units across China where more than 2,000 transplants are performed annually. A survey of 16 BMT units found that 36 percent of transplants involved siblings, but over the past few years, there has been an increase in transplants involving mismatched or haploidentical people.