'Corridor Classroom' Provides A Teaching Tonic For Leukemia Kids

A nonprofit organization is giving seriously ill children in hospital the opportunity to continue their studies, as Yuan Quan reports for Xinhua China Features.

The children are ages 2 to 14, and their classroom always smells of disinfectant. They all wear masks. Few have hair, but those who do have just a few thin strands. They all have leukemia.

Every year, about 15,000 children in China are diagnosed with leukemia, a form of cancer caused by overproduction of damaged white blood cells. Most are ages 2 to 7, and their treatment usually lasts two to three years.