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Title: International Day Western Academy of Beijing Care for Orphan Children in China


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International DayWestern Academy of
BeijingCare for Orphan Children in China
  • Our Chinese Daughters Foundation
  • Dr. Jane Liedtke
  • Ross Warner

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Why is care for children a global issue?
  • Throughout the world there are children who are
    unable to speak for themselves and ask for help
    when they need it.
  • These are children without parents or adult
    relatives to help them.
  • They live in institutions or orphanages and
    sometimes there is not enough money or support to
    give them the level of care they need.
  • Sometimes they are orphans, sometimes not.

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Are there children in China who need help? Yes
  • There are many children in orphanages and social
    welfare institutions in China.
  • There are also children in private group homes
    and foster care in need of help.
  • Some children live on the street as beggars with
    older persons who may not be their family
    members.

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How does this happen to kids in China?
  • Kids may live at a social welfare institute,
    orphanage, or foster care facility for many
    reasons
  • Poverty the family has too many children and
    cant afford any more.
  • Chinas One-Child Policy most families are
    allowed only one child. Rural farm families can
    have two children if the first child is a girl.
  • Accident in the family causing the parents to not
    be available to raise the child(ren)
  • Traditional customs and preferences for boys to
    help on the family farm and carry on the family
    name.
  • Imprisonment of parents
  • Birth defect or physical disability may cause a
    family to fear they cant care for their child
  • AIDS some children have lost their entire
    family to AIDS and now have to live in
    institutions.

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Who cares for children in institutions?
  • Government Ministry of Civil Affairs
  • Provincial and Local Civil Affairs
  • Private Chinese Non-Profit Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • United Nations Projects
  • Church Projects
  • Individual Projects
  • Foreign Government Projects

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How long do kids live there?
  • Some children are adopted by families in China
    and some are internationally adopted by the time
    they are 3 years of age.
  • For some children who are disabled, their stay is
    life-long.
  • Those children who were not adopted and are able
    to attend public school do so.
  • In some rare cases, children may go to college.
  • Usually at age 16 or 18 they leave the orphanage
    if they are well enough to do so.

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What is international adoption?
  • Families living in foreign countries come to
    China to adopt a baby, toddler or special needs
    child.
  • Some families living in China also adopt children
    during their stay in China.
  • The child becomes a full family member and
    citizen of the country where the family is from.
  • The foreign family is responsible for raising the
    child and loving it just like other children in
    the family.

Big brother with new sister!
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What countries allow adoption from China?
  • USA
  • Canada
  • Australia
  • Norway
  • Sweden
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • The Netherlands
  • Belgium
  • France
  • Switzerland
  • UK
  • Ireland

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Are there many orphanages in China?
  • Government Social Welfare Institutions or
    Orphanages
  • 250 with international adoption programs
  • 500 that care for children but children are not
    adopted internationally from these locations
  • Private Facilities
  • 100 throughout China

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How many kids are we talking about?
  • 850 institutions of various sizes
  • Lets imagine there are 50-100 children in each
    one
  • Did you do the math?
  • 42,500 85,000 children in need of homes
  • In some cities we know there are institutions
    with 200-500 children! So, the number is likely
    100,000 children.
  • Add to that the number of children who lost their
    parents due to AIDS, the number doubles!

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What are the immediate needs of children?
  • Food
  • Milk powder and formula
  • Surgeries to correct small to large physical
    problems
  • Care-givers to love and hold them, teachers to
    teach them
  • Heating in winter to stay warm and things like
    insulated windows
  • School sponsorships
  • Clothing and shoes
  • Eye exams and glasses
  • Dental exams and treatment
  • Bedding and blankets

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Beijing Orphan Resource Network (BORN)
  • Group of 20 orphan care institutions run by
    foreign organizations and individuals
  • Share resources and identify needs of children in
    institutions in the region and throughout China

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Examples of children who need help and
Beijing-area organizations that need your support
  • How can you help?

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Hope Foster Home - Beijing
  • Fu Jin Jin, 2 months old in Henan Province
  • Born with exposed spinal cord and orphaned.
  • Needs
  • Surgery for closure of spine and shunt insertion
    for hydrocephalus.
  • Cost 5,000.00

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Tianjin International Committee for Chinese
Orphans
  • Wei Jian An, 6 months old
  • Born with amniotic bands, orphaned
  • Needs
  • Multiple surgeries to release skin/scaring and
    splints for several surgeries to enable walking.
  • Cost 4,000.00

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Blue Sky Healing Home Beijing
  • Fu Tian You, 5 months
  • Need
  • Surgery funds for severe medical condition. He
    has already undergone a necessary first surgery
    to replace his bladder at around 1 month old, but
    it ruptured while he was in ICU in the local
    Chinese hospital. Physicians will donate their
    services, hospital fees and transportation needed
    for multiple surgeries.
  • Cost 15,000.00

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Jia Ao Foster Home Amazing Hands
  • Dang Yi Feng, 6 months
  • Needs
  • Surgery for TGA (transposition of the great
    arteries) and Atrial Septal Defect
  • Cost 10,000.00

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Operation Blessing
  • Wang Dan, age 16, in Henan Province
  • Both parents died of AIDS.
  • She is living with her peasant grandparents.
  • Needs
  • School sponsorship for 3 years of high school.
  • Cost 750

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Gift of Life Rotary International Beijing
Chapter
  • Zhao Yu Lang, age 3, in Hebei Province
  • Needs
  • Heart surgery to repair a congenital heart
    defect.
  • Cost 2,000.00

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Beijing United Family Hospital Foundation -
Beijing
  • Chen Yong Xing, 12 years
  • Parents have left him to beg on the streets with
    a grandparent.
  • Needs
  • MRI to plan surgery, surgery to remove tumor and
    restore eye functions.
  • Cost 3,500.00

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New Day Foster Home - Daxing
  • Peter Dang Gui Zhi, 1 year old, orphaned
  • Needs
  • Heart surgery for pulmonary atresia
  • Cost 7,000.00

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Hope Foster Home - Beijing
  • Lily Fu Wen Hua, 2.5 years
  • Needs
  • Medication to control seizures.
  • She has severe cerebral palsy.
  • Cost 1,000.00

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Tianjin International Committee for Chinese
Orphans
  • Wei Jian Kang, 3 months
  • Cleft lip/palete, bone deformities (including
    fused joints.
  • Needs
  • Surgery to correct lip/palate, unfuse joints and
    reverse fingers.
  • Cost 6,250.00

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Our Chinese Daughters Foundation
  • DaMing Orphanage and LiMing Orphanage in Hebei
    Province
  • Coal for Kids Project
  • purchase of coal for non-government supported
    orphanages who each year have insufficient funds
    to heat their facilities thus causing children to
    lose life and limbs/fingers from frostbite.

Coal for Kids
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Our Chinese Daughters Foundation Orphan Support
Projects
  • Orphan Care Packages to send to any orphanage or
    foster care program in China.
  • These include various options including medical
    supplies, baby care items, formula, musical
    instruments, playground equipment.
  • www.ocdf.org/orphansupport
  • 500 Orphanages throughout China need care
    packages

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Our Chinese Daughters FoundationOrphan Support
Projects
  • Sponsor children to attend elementary school,
    middle school, high school, or college.
  • Provide a child their annual school backpack!
  • Sponsor eye exams, music lessons, and clothing
    for kids in over 750 orphanages throughout China.
  • See www.ocdf.org/orphansupport

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Our Chinese Daughters FoundationOrphan Support
Projects
  • In support of schooling for children who became
    orphans because their parents died of AIDS. They
    have lost their families and their villages.

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Bethel Foster Home - LangfangSchool for Blind
Orphans Project
  • Need
  • 460 square meters facility, English teacher,
    special Education Teacher, Occupational
    Therapist, Primary School Teacher, Assistant
    Teacher, 2 Workshops for State-run Orphanages
    Caregivers.
  • Cost 23,000.00

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Operation BlessingSchool Project - Gansu Province
  • Yanhui, Yanqiang and Yaqiang, from Tongwei in
    Gansu, lost their father years ago.  Their mother
    works in the field to struggle to support them
    but it barely keeps them alive. The three
    children in the family need the chance to attend
    school so as to give their family a better
    future. Yanhui is the older sister should be in
    middle school and Yangiang and Yaqiang, her
    younger brothers, need to be in primary school.
  • Wang Binlan (shown right), 11 years old, needs to
    attend school to be able to have a future. He has
    albinism and was adopted by an old street peddler
    in Lanzhou.
  • Cost 450 Includes tuition, uniform, books, and
    backpack of supplies for the 4 kids.

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Bethel Foster Home - Langfang
  • Fu Li Gin, 16 years old from Guizhou
  • Annual Sponsorship
  • In support of an orphan child for annual
    residential care, schooling, meals, clothing,
    specialized education for the blind.
  • Cost 2,000.00

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Bethel Foster Home - Langfang
  • Fu Li Ming, age 5 from Guizhou
  • Annual Sponsorship
  • In support of an orphan child for annual
    residential care, schooling, meals/clothing,
    specialized education for the blind.
  • Cost 2000.00

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Operation BlessingCleft Surgery
  • Story of one of the orphans
  • Mengying Ruo (1 year old) is a cute baby, she was
    abandoned by her family because of her cleft lip
    condition. She was found by a stranger at the
    gate of a factory and was sent to St. Jose
    Childrens Home. Under the watchful eye of the
    caregivers, little Ruoying grew fast. But her
    cleft lip seriously affected her eating and she
    choked from time to time. Little Ruoying urgently
    needs surgery to give her a normal life.
  • Cost for Cleft Lip Surgeries 400.00 each

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Area Orphanage Sponsorships
  • Annual Milk Sponsorship
  • In support of milk powder for one entire year
  • Cost 1,200.00
  • Annual Food Sponsorship
  • In support of food for one orphanage for one
    entire year!
  • Cost 3,600.00

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Wu Qiu Orphanage
  • Wuqiu Orphanage is a church-run orphanage in
    Jinzhou, Hebei province.
  • There are 90 orphans now.
  • Without fixed financial source, the orphanages
    environment is simple and crude.
  • The orphans are weak.
  • The nuns take good care of the children.

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Dawn Home Orphanage
  • Dawn Home Orphanage, Biancun, is built by a
    Catholic church.
  • Now there are 70 orphans.
  • The orphanage does not have fixed financial
    source and the environment is quite simple.
  • Nuns teach children to make handcrafts, so that
    the handicapped orphans could master a
    professional skill and boost up their confidence.

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Liu Cun Orphanage - Changping
  • Orphans are lacking in nutrition.
  • There are 16 orphans. The living environment is
    very bad.
  • It is a relatively poor orphanage.

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Living Tree Foster Home
  • They are dedicated to healing training for
    orphans with Cerebral Palsy.
  • At present, they are taking care of 25 orphans,
    including 18 orphans with CP.
  • The children come from different orphanages.
  • Now they got care and love.

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Special Projects for Kids to Help Kids
  • 100 can sponsor one orphanage for one month of
    milk powder!
  • 200 can sponsor one orphanage for one month of
    diapers!
  • 300 can sponsor one orphanage for one month of
    food!
  • 400 can equip an orphanage with a modern
    kitchen!
  • 500 can build/equip a library room for children!
  • 600 can build/equip an infirmary/clinic!
  • 700 can sponsor special equipment for special
    needs kids!
  • 800 can build/equip a laundry room!
  • 900 can build/equip a modern bathroom!
  • 1000 can build/equip a playground!
  • 2000 can build a baby/infant room
  • 5000 can build/equip a physical therapy room

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Kids can make a difference!
  • As you meet with your teachers later today, you
    can decide how to make a difference for kids in
    need in China!
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