Introduction
A letter from the founder of China Care, Matt Dalio
The predicament of Chinese orphans is unfathomable. Every year, tens of thousands of children are thrust into overcrowded orphanages because they are girls, disabled, or simply because their parents don't have enough money to take care of them.
Four years ago, at sixteen years old, I founded the China Care Foundation to address this problem. Since then, China Care has touched the lives of many hundreds of children.
In the past year, students at many universities, including Harvard, Yale, and Brown, have started China Care clubs to make a difference of their own. They play with adopted children, volunteer in orphanages in China, match up adopting families and orphans, raise money for life-saving surgeries, and more. Everyone involved in this cause has found it extremely enjoyable and rewarding, and in the end, they have been more changed than they could have imagined.