Life on the edge in the 'village in the city'

People are abandoning their homes in the countryside and living in squalid conditions in the capital of Anhui province in the hope of giving their children a better chance of surviving cancer. Zhu Lixin reports from Hefei.

Dozens of children with life-threatening diseases are living in a 70,000-square-meter slum called Wujianong next to the Anhui Provincial Children's Hospital in Hefei, the capital of Anhui province.

In Wujianong, the crowded and shabby, temporary two-and three-story dwellings, which are likely to be demolished at any moment, block out the sky. Even during the day, lights are needed in the dim, winding passages, but few have been installed.