BringingJoyToJingmen: November 2007

Thursday, November 29, 2007

BringingJoyToJingmen

BringingJoyToJingmen is a blog to bring news and topics about the Foster Care Program for the Jingmen orphanage by Grace and Hope for Children.
Jingmen is a city in the Hubei province of China.
BringingJoyToJingmen was created by Patty Smith and Marjanne Laeven, both mothers of children adopted from Jingmen and Grace and Hope volunteers.
Our main focus and shared passion is to inform the public and find sponsors for the Jingmen children to enroll them into the Foster Care Program.
As each child deserves to live in a loving family, our dream is to have a (foster) family for each child now living in the Jingmen orphanage
This blog is a tool to help realizing this dream.

Patty Smith and Marjanne Laeven

BringingJoyToJingmen

WELCOME!

BringingJoyToJingmen is created to inform you about the Grace and Hope for Children Foster Care Program for the Jingmen orphanage in Jingmen, Hubei province in China.

For a little more than $ 1 a day you can sponsor a Jingmen orphan to live in a foster family.
Your money gives a child the gift of a foster family which means a chance to bond and grow up healthy.

The Jingmen orphanage has 21 childen, of whom 7 are older than 7 years. With the help of sponsors each one of them could live in a foster family. Some children do have special needs.
Grace and Hope is responsible for the selection and training of foster families. Besides they help with medical issues.
Daily foster care has a great beneficial impact on a child life's and enhances its chance to attend public school as they are likely to themselves like other children.

A Grace and Hope social worker visits the foster family every 3 months to monitor the child's progress.
The quarterly reports including photos are mailed to the child's sponsor. These reports give a glimpse into a child's daily life.
It is always a joy to read about the big benefits and amazing progress a child makes after coming into a loving foster family.
True miracles happen when they learn to call their new foster family their home.

BringingJoyToJingmen is created by Patty Smith (U.S.A) and Marjanne Laeven (The Netherlands) both volunteers for the Jingmen Foster Program.