Like Ella Zhou Jin Felipe got sponsored too by now.
At the moment there is 1 little boy born in 2005 waiting for sponsorship for a foster family.
His name is Jin Armando. Unlike Ella's situation which was very unique we don't have photos of him yet. His photos and report are still in China and will be sent to his sponsor. We hope to get him out of the orphanage as soon as possible.
Hopefully the Chinese New Year of the Rat will bring good fortune: a foster family to this little boy.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Jin Ruth adopted to Norway
Another good news that reaches us lately is that Jin Ruth was adopted to Norway!
Jin Ruth left the Grace and Hope for children (GHC) foster care program in January 2008 when she was adopted by her Norwegian parents. We wish her a happy and healthy life in Norway and hope she will well attach to her family.
Jin Ruth left the Grace and Hope for children (GHC) foster care program in January 2008 when she was adopted by her Norwegian parents. We wish her a happy and healthy life in Norway and hope she will well attach to her family.
Ella Zhou will live in a foster family!
We are thrilled to announce that Ella Zhou got a sponsor!!
This means this beautiful girl will move out for the first time of her life of the orphanage to live with a foster care.
What an exciting time for her especially now at Chinese New Year.
Patty and I would like to thank her sponsor for coming out and helping Ella Zhou to change her life forever and face a normal life like other kids.
Right now we are waiting for her first report to arrive from China to show us more details and photos.But as you know it is Chinese New Year now and everyone has gone for family celebrations, if permitted by the weather and public traffic conditions.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Happy Chinese New Year
Happy Chinese New Year!
We wish you a happy New Year of the Rat full of health and joy, wisdom and success.
Hopefully the New Year will bring many loving foster and forever families to our beautiful Jingmen children.
Patty Smith and Marjanne Laeven
Monday, February 4, 2008
Emergency Update: Grace and Hope staff called Hubei orphanages
Children's beds in Jingmen orphanage
The staff has called each orphanage. As it is further north than Guangxi, they are cold but they are ok. Grace and Hope works in Hubei in the following orphanages:
Dawu,HuangGang,HuangMei,JingMen,Qichun,WuXue and Xiangfan.
The biggest problem is that there are many kids who are still in the orphanage. In one orphanage, they put two rooms of children in one room where there was heat. Two children share a bed. They are having a difficult time finding qualified foster parents and the foster parents that they do find want to foster older children rather than babies. The best way to help in Hubei is to get the children out of the orphanage.
Quite a few of the directors are now wanting to place more children in the foster care programs.
Emergency updates on Hubei orphanages (by Half the Sky)
Today Half the Sky in cooperation with the Ministry of Civil Affairs is trying to make an estimation of the most urgent current needs of the orphanages in the disaster areas.Here is an evaluation of just 2 Hubei orphanages.
Huangshi, Hubei – is in desperate need of disposable diapers. They ask for funds to purchase since goods can’t be sent to them right now. All heater/air conditioners have stopped functioning. They need quilts and warm clothes for the children. Several HTS nannies have fallen on the ice on their way to work and they need medicine to treat cuts and bruises.
Wuhan, Hubei – is having a very hard time finding affordable food, “even cabbage.” They ask for food subsidies for the Family Village, 20 space heaters and 50 warm quilts. Heaters are working but there is no water for bathing. The local community has offered to take children in for the Chinese New Year and the institution feels this may be the best decision to keep them safe, so their requests are only for the Family Village. UPDATE: With HTS funds, they purchased heavy comforters, space heaters and food for the Family Village. The institution director personally visited each family to ensure that everyone is all right.
Huangshi, Hubei – is in desperate need of disposable diapers. They ask for funds to purchase since goods can’t be sent to them right now. All heater/air conditioners have stopped functioning. They need quilts and warm clothes for the children. Several HTS nannies have fallen on the ice on their way to work and they need medicine to treat cuts and bruises.
Wuhan, Hubei – is having a very hard time finding affordable food, “even cabbage.” They ask for food subsidies for the Family Village, 20 space heaters and 50 warm quilts. Heaters are working but there is no water for bathing. The local community has offered to take children in for the Chinese New Year and the institution feels this may be the best decision to keep them safe, so their requests are only for the Family Village. UPDATE: With HTS funds, they purchased heavy comforters, space heaters and food for the Family Village. The institution director personally visited each family to ensure that everyone is all right.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Emergency Relief for Jingmen
As you all know large parts of China have been severly hit by the
severe snowstorms and heavy weather the last weeks.
Also in Jingmen the winter is very harsh and bad.
On January 17 Jiaoli, my OPO daughter, already reported a very extreme situation in
Jingmen with heavy snowfall and closed main roads.
She had traveled by train and said if she had bought a busticket
from Hefei to Jingmen she would not have been able to reach Jingmen.
Since January the weather forecasts have been reporting more harsh
weather and new storms and snow.
I lost contact with Jiaoli and as far as I know she is with her
grandparents right now which is in rural Jingmen.
The Jingmen orphanage is located in the city of Jingmen and even
there the situation is critical due to loss of fuel and food.
Orphanages are in great need for warm clothes, quils, coals and food.
Grace and Hope for Children is committed to help the orphanages in
their program: people can donate money to help orphanages in need.
Grace and Hope for Children will do all they can to forward before
Chinese New Year the money to the orphanages. At least they will try
to phone them to bring them the news of the donations for extra
supplies. The orphanages are asked to keep receits and take
photos of what they bought from the donations.
I hope you will keep the Jingmen orphanage into your thoughts in
these difficult and stressful times to keep up with the weather
extremes and survive amidst the cold and shortages of fuel,
water,warm clothes, electricity, food and disposable diapers.
Please feel free to help the Jingmen orphanage by donating money, no
amount is too small to help them keep the children warm and safe.
You can make a donation by the Grace and Hope for Children website.
Go to 'How to Help', choose to make a 'Orphanic Specific
Çontribution', and then go to 'Hubei Jing Men' and from their you
can further accomplish your donation.
Thank you all so much for your help keeping Jingmen orphanage and foster families a safe shelter for the children whom they take care of.
severe snowstorms and heavy weather the last weeks.
Also in Jingmen the winter is very harsh and bad.
On January 17 Jiaoli, my OPO daughter, already reported a very extreme situation in
Jingmen with heavy snowfall and closed main roads.
She had traveled by train and said if she had bought a busticket
from Hefei to Jingmen she would not have been able to reach Jingmen.
Since January the weather forecasts have been reporting more harsh
weather and new storms and snow.
I lost contact with Jiaoli and as far as I know she is with her
grandparents right now which is in rural Jingmen.
The Jingmen orphanage is located in the city of Jingmen and even
there the situation is critical due to loss of fuel and food.
Orphanages are in great need for warm clothes, quils, coals and food.
Grace and Hope for Children is committed to help the orphanages in
their program: people can donate money to help orphanages in need.
Grace and Hope for Children will do all they can to forward before
Chinese New Year the money to the orphanages. At least they will try
to phone them to bring them the news of the donations for extra
supplies. The orphanages are asked to keep receits and take
photos of what they bought from the donations.
I hope you will keep the Jingmen orphanage into your thoughts in
these difficult and stressful times to keep up with the weather
extremes and survive amidst the cold and shortages of fuel,
water,warm clothes, electricity, food and disposable diapers.
Please feel free to help the Jingmen orphanage by donating money, no
amount is too small to help them keep the children warm and safe.
You can make a donation by the Grace and Hope for Children website.
Go to 'How to Help', choose to make a 'Orphanic Specific
Çontribution', and then go to 'Hubei Jing Men' and from their you
can further accomplish your donation.
Thank you all so much for your help keeping Jingmen orphanage and foster families a safe shelter for the children whom they take care of.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Call for immediate sponsorship for Ella Zhou
This cute girl is Ella Zhou! She lives in the Jingmen orphanage.It is very exceptionnel you see her photo here as it is not according to Hubei-protocol to give her photo free.
But the Grace and Hope social worker decided to bring her photo to the public to help Ella find a sponsor. You can say her care and commitment to Ella is bigger than the Hubei rules. By giving Ella's photo free she hopes Ella will have more chance to find a sponsor who will help her to live in a foster family. Ella is now spending all days and nights in the orphanage.Who is willing to give Ella a new life and the joy of a 'normal child's life' in a loving foster family.
It takes only $1 dollar a day to cover the sponsor costs including the training and monitoring of the foster family.
A new foster home would be a wonderful Chinese New Year present for Ella.
Patty and Marjanne
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