Harvard China Care is proud to announce the opening of its new Children's Home in BaoJi, Shanxi Province in November 2007. Thanks to the generous support of our corporate sponsor, Jenzabar, we were able to establish this Children's Home. This project operates on the China Care Foundation's foster care model: the new children's home will give the weakest high-risk children from the BaoJi Social Welfare Institute and other local orphanages and provide them with surgery and medical care, nurse them back to health, and then place them into local foster care or adoption. Thus, needy children will be able to leave behind the institutional setting of the orphanage, become healthy, and grow and develop physically, mentally, and emotionally in the warmth of a loving family.

Meet the first child helped by the Children's Home:

Her name is Zheng Xiaomin. She had a lung tumor and was on edge of death by asphyxiation due to the tumor. The staff at the Children's Home was able to send her to Beijing for surgery. Surgery was successfully done to remove the tumor. However, the tumor is caused by a wart-type virus, and the tumor will re-occur. The Children's Home is now working on figuring out the best long term for solution for her.

 

Added Nov. 5, 2007.