Joanna Keen

A scam exploiting vulnerable families with sick children.

I would have done anything to get the medicine for Khalil.

The child is directed on camera to plead for help.

I want to be a normal kid.

I want to go to school.

They were going to upload it to social media.

Millions of dollars pour in, but the families never receive the money.

He told us it wasn't successful.

As I understood it, the video just didn't make any money.

World of Secrets, the child cancer scam from the BBC World Service.

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This is The Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

I'm Joanna Keen, and in this edition... Everybody needs a place to be needed.

I think they need identity.

They need a place.

They need a place to be himself or herself.

The cafe in Tokyo that allows people with dementia to volunteer as servers.

It's not a day that goes by where I don't think about that fact and I'm forever indebted to the both of them.

And thankfully I get to tell them and thank them every day, give Polly a big hug.

We meet the man whose life was saved by his dog.