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Shuffling along the road, holding tightly onto her grandmother’s hand, every step three-year-old Yu Yu takes is painful.

The toddler suffers from an undiagnosed condition which causes her feet to grow at an alarmingly rapid rate.

The youngster is forced to walk barefoot as her poverty-stricken family are unable to afford shoes big enough for her.

Yu Yu’s feet are constantly swollen and heavy, making moving around extremely difficult.

An x-ray clearly shows the deformity, which forces her feet to curve outwards.

Despite struggling to make ends meet, her family are slowly raising funds to take the little girl to a doctor to ask for help with her condition.

Yu Yu’s grandfather is planning to take her to Beijing to seek medical assistance after collecting money by selling several pigs.

But until then, she will be left to walk shoeless around her home of Xi’an, in the Shaanxi Province of China.