Crowdfunding campaign raises R4m for elderly street vendor

An 89-year-old Chicago man who sells popsicles from a street cart has received more than $280 000 (about R4m) in donations from an online campaign to help him.

Fidencio Sanchez is known as the paleta (popsicle) man on the GoFundMe page set up for him by Joel Cervantes, a restaurateur who ran into Sanchez in Little Village, a predominantly Latino neighbourhood.