This page reports some recent activities of FujianKids and of parents and groups that assist Fujian Province orphanages. Please contact us if you have news to report.
| June 2007 | |
| This month, FujianKids sponsored complex heart surgery for an 8-year-old boy from the Fuzhou orphanage, cleft lip repair for a baby from Nanping, and anal atresia surgery for another Nanping baby. All these children are recovering well. | |
| May 2007 | |
| With contributions from adoptive families, FujianKids provided a much-needed playroom for babies and toddlers at the Gutian orphanage. Other equipment purchases include a clothes dryer for the Shaowu orphanage and an incubator for the Zhangzhou orphanage. The incubator saves babies' lives by stabilizing the babies' body temperature when they're first brought to the orphanage after being outside. | |
| March 2007 | |
| Three orphanage children needing specialized medical care are in Beijing this month receiving treatments sponsored by FujianKids. The children are from the Nanping, Putian, and Fuzhou orphanages. | |
| February 2007 | |
| FujianKids sponsored Chinese New Year celebrations and new clothes for the children at the Jinjiang, Nanping, and Fuzhou orphanages. |
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| January 2007 | |
| The Guangze orphanage received two new washing machines with money contributed to FujianKids by Guangze adoptive families, and 16 orphanage children were taken shopping to buy new clothes. | |
| December 2006 | |
| Two children, one from Zhangzhou and one from Fuzhou, received major surgeries sponsored by FujianKids. School children at the Jinzhuotou Village School sponsored by FujianKids were taken holiday shopping for new clothes and treated to a restaurant meal; it was the first time that most of these children had ever eaten in a restaurant. | |
| September 2006 | |
| The northeastern part of Fujian Province is a very poor area. Orphaned children there often live with impoverished relatives or village elders and are too poor to receive an education. This month, FujianKids began a program with the Jinzhuotou village school to sponsor education for these orphaned children who otherwise would not be able to attend school (see details). | |
| August 2006 | |
| FujianKids donors furnished a baby care unit at the Qingliu orphanage. The orphanage now has new cribs, baby bouncers, an air conditioning unit for the babies' room, padded flooring for the babies to play on, and several appliances to improve the hygiene of the orphanage including a refrigerator, sterilizer, and washer and dryer (see photos). | |
| July 2006 | |
| FujianKids, is beginning plans for a group home for hearing-impaired orphanage children. The home will be in Jinjiang and will be affiliated with the Jinjiang School for the Deaf. Hearing impaired children from rural orphanages will live in the group home and receive education and vocational training at the school. | |
| June 2006 | |
| The first phase of the physical therapy center at Nanping has been completed, and three children with cerebral palsy have begun receiving treatment (see photos). At the Quanzhou orphanage, FujianKids has begun supporting special education for one deaf boy and three mildly retarded children. | |
| April 2006 | |
| FujianKids donors furnished a new classroom for the special needs children at the Nanping orphanage and provided them with recreational equpment including a basketball stand, pingpong table, and music keyboard. | |
| March 2006 | |
| A 3-year-old boy at the Shaowu orphanage with severe hearing loss received a hearing aid this month for the one ear that has residual hearing, thanks to a FujianKids donor. He will begin speech therapy at a residential school for the hearing impaired soon. | |
| February 2006 | |
| In February, FujianKids sponsored training in physical therapy for staff from the Nanping and Fuzhou orphanages. Quite a few orphanage children have cerebral palsy, and physical therapy is crucial to helping these children's bones and muscles develop properly. In the near future we plan on equipping a physical therapy room at the Nanping orphanage and expanding the physical therapy facility at Fuzhou. Also in February, phase I of the Baby Care Unit at the Zhenghe orphanage was completed. You can see a photo at http://fujiankids.org/swis/zhenghe/zhenghef.shtml | |
| January 2006 | |
| This month, FujianKids completed a playroom for the children at the Fuzhou orphanage. Children now have access to art materials, dress up clothes, construction toys, musical instruments, action figures, and even a small bicycle and some skateboards for riding down the long hallways. Previously, the kids' main activity was watching television. They're enjoying the wide range of activities now available to them, and developing motor, spatial, and cognitive skills at the same time. | |
| November 2005 | |
| In November, FujianKids purchased hearing aids for two hearing impaired children--one at the Nanping orphanage and another at Shaowu. At the Zhenghe orphanage, we began installation of our first baby care unit. The baby room there will now be heated in the winter and air conditioned in the summer, and newly installed equipment will help with hygiene and provide labor efficiencies so that caregivers can spend more time holding babies instead of washing diapers. Babies will also be fed infant formula now instead of powdered milk in their baby bottles. | |
| September 2005 | |
| FujianKids and FujianKids donors have established a library for the children in the Fuzhou orphanage (see photos here). We have also provided several wheelchairs, walkers, and walking sticks for Fuzhou No. 2 Social Welfare Institute, where disabled orphanage children over the age of 14 live. At the Shaowu orphanage, a FujianKids donor is sponsoring vision therapy for a girl with congenital amblyopia and other vision problems. | |
| July 2005 | |
| In July, through the generosity of sponsors we were able to place eight more children in foster care. FujianKids also purchased new rehabilitation equipment for the Fuzhou orphanage. We will be sending medical staff at both the Fuzhou and Nanping orphanages to Beijing for additional training in physical therapy so they can better meet the needs of orphanage children with cerebral palsy. | |
| June 2005 | |
| In June, some adoptive parents from the Datian orphanage and FujianKids purchased three washing machines, a dryer, and lots of children's clothing for the Datian orphanage (see photos of these purchases and of the kids wearing some of the new clothes here). | |
| May 2005 | |
| During May, the director of FujianKids personally visited seven orphanages in China (five in Fujian Province) to observe programs and assess orphanage needs. To obtain a complete report of this visit, contact us. In keeping with the goals and philosophy of Fujian Kids, this visit was paid for with personal funds; all donor funds are reserved for programs that directly benefit orphanage children or to cover the expenses of in-China staff. | |
| April 2005 | |
| In cooperation with Angel Covers, several adoptive families sponsored new cribs for the Gutian orphanage.
Through our Day Out Program, FujianKids sponsored an outing for the older children at the Fuzhou orphanage. They visited the provincial museum and had lunch at McDonald's. FujianKids purchased an electronic keyboard for use by the older children at the Nanping orphanage. Also in April, 117 baby bouncers purchased by FujianKids donors were delivered to six orphanages in Fujian Province. |
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