Project Medical Team 2000
A team of physicians, surgeons, nurses, and
supporting CHI personnel, along with the Chinese medical staff
from local hospitals, dedicated themselves in November to
children from orphanages in two Chinese provinces. They operated
on children with cleft lips/palates, club feet, burns, scarring,
and similar needs. They also gave attention to children in need
of physical therapy and other ailments. More than 100 children
received life-changing help.
Hope Centers
China Hope Center is in Tuan Feng city, Hubei
province. It includes a small clinic and a reception unit where
abandoned babies can stay until they can be put into a foster
home, and a supply room. The Center has a doctor and a nurse to
oversee the foster program, distribute needed supplies, and
examine the children during their monthly visits. CHI has also
funded our first foster care training for orphanage directors
and workers as well as foster moms. There are 50 children in
China Hope Center. Vietnam Hope Center
opened in August 2000 in Vung Tau, Vietnam. Older orphans, poor
families, and birthmothers who have had to relinquish their
children are being given job training for a better future.
Tuition is paid for children who cannot afford to pay for
primary school. Hope Center Vietnam provides service for 100
children.
Mission Nutrition
We continue to provide multivitamins to
orphanage children—currently 500 children in China
participate. Last year we started a program in Guatemala.
Foster Care
We have implemented official arrangements for
50 orphans in China to be taken into foster care instead of
remaining in institutions. For $25 a month, one child can enter
a foster home—both healthy and with special needs.
Sponsorship
This China program is for older children not
in foster care to receive medical care, school tuition,
supplies, etc. Many children in orphanages will not go to school
without outside help. There are 39 children from Urumuqi and 14
from Shi Yan. orphanage in this program. There is also a
sponsorship program in India.
Rainbow Program
This program is for the children over 13 who
have little chance for adoption in China. We link them with
adoptive families to be pen pals and friends. They exchange
gifts and letters. There are now 18 children in Changshu and 10
in Urumuqi. Last February 2000, CHI sponsored a trip to Beijing
for the Changshu Rainbow children.
Children’s Playgrounds
This program started with one mother’s
passion for the children at her daughter’s orphanage in Russia
to have a place to play. For $8000, we have already built a
playground for Chelybinsk orphanage #2, and two more are planned
for this year.
Orphanage Needs
When there is a specific request from the
orphanage, or from a group or family that wants to help an
orphanage, CHI will try to organize and finalize a project
according to the need. In the year 2000, $50,000 was donated to
orphanage-based projects.
India Wells
Filthy pond water, used by many India
villagers for drinking and food preparation, causes disease and
death—especially in children. CHI sponsors donations of
village wells to provide clean water. Each well costs $450—a
small amount that saves so many lives.  BACK
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