One-to-One = ONE BIG DREAM COMES TRUE

We are now BLESSED as an official One-to-One partner agency in China!

What we have hoped and prayed for years has now come true. The CCCWA has assigned our agency to be an official One-to-One partner agency. This means we have our own orphanage to take under our wing and help with everything from adoption placements to orthopedic equipment and more, more, more!

The orphanage has 90 children most with severe medical needs . These children NEED us. In the mosts ahead we will keep introducing you to these amazing children who struggling in very poor conditions. Can you imagine how their lives will change when WE can get them extra help?

You’ll hear more about this program soon and if you’d like to be one of the founding donors to the Heze orphanage please click over to our new Humanitarian page and “chip in” today!

And please do join us to learn more and share more about parenting a Chinese child with medical needs by joining our listserv: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CHIWaitingkids/

Is China tugging at your heart to adopt? Please click here to be in touch with our International China Specialist, Heidi Hawkins.

For more information and on these children please click here for a pre-application.

How You Can Help

There are several ways you can be involved in bringing the gift of a therapy and play to children in an orphanage in China.

We at CHI are devastated by the loss of little Joie Mei Meder. She was one of the very first waiting children whose medical treatments CHI was able to sponsor. She was the first CHI child to be given an adoption grant to help cover agency expenses. In her honor we want to continue sponsoring orphans and making their lives better while they wait for a family to find them.

CHI has very recently been assigned as a partner to the Heze SWI in Shandong province. This SWI is very new to inter-country adoption and has many needs. There are approximately 90 children there, 80% of whom have cerebral palsy or other physical differences that limit their mobility. They have no play equipment and no physical therapy equipment of any kind so the only exercise the children are getting is by pulling themselves up and down on the bars of their cribs.

CHI is determined to change that through our partnership with the Heze SWI. We are going to make a room for them to be able to enjoy play and build their muscles. We want to help them out of their beds and onto their feet. We want to see them walking towards a different future. It might be one shaky, weak step at a time but we will see steps!

Joie Mei Meder

CHI wishes to rename the project to be “Joie’s Jump and Run Room”. It is our greatest wish to see these children get to jump and run like Joie did, and ultimately to have a life with a family. We mourn Joie’s loss but find extreme comfort in that she LIVED with HER OWN family. She was LOVED by HER OWN family. She will forever be REMEMBERED and MISSED by HER OWN family. We wish to pass along this legacy which Joie leaves, to other children who need us just as Joie needed us 7 years ago.

We are thrilled to announce our very first donation! The Happy Factory has donated 3 Steam Shovels and 600 wooden toys that will be delivered this summer. A child can sit and manipulate the bucket – what fun. But even more exciting is that seriously disabled children are stimulated to do all sorts of things previously thought to be beyond their capability by just running this little amazing steam shovel!

Here’s a bit about the Happy Factory – they are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with all of the materials they use are donated and all of the toys are made by volunteers. Every toy is donated to a child in need. The toys are made of scraps of hardwood donated by a local cabinet maker our own adoptive parents Paul and Mary Cozzens. We thank them for their kind generosity to connect us with The Happy Factory.

SO HOW CAN YOU HELP?

Make a one-time donation to help us supply this the orphanage with medical equipment, physical therapy equipment.

Any amount is helpful. A donation of as little as $10.00 can make a difference!

Put your money to use where it can keep giving. Here are some of the other items on our wish list:

A gait trainer offers both unweighting support and postural alignment to enable gait practice. It functions as a support walker and provides more assistance for balance and weight-bearing, than does a traditional rollator walker, or a walker with platform attachments.

Parallel bars are used to help regain strength, balance, range of motion, and independence. On the road to recovery, preparing to walk is a monumental task requiring patience, dedication, an extraordinary amount of will power