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Ruth: LWB’s Featured Child of the Week

Ruth is a sweet six-year-old girl who works hard in school despite cognitive delays. Ruth enjoys all of her classes but is particularly fond of her Mandarin and music classes. She finds math challenging, but fortunately a special needs school is located near her orphanage where Ruth can be in a supportive learning environment. The school provides the special attention and patience this lovely girl deserves. Ruth loves going to school each day, and. with your support, she will be able to continue to learn in a supportive and encouraging environment. Read more.

A New Adventure: An Education Success Story

It’s time to enter the big world of learning: preschool. A new adventure for any preschooler, children will be given the opportunity to explore; participate in sing-alongs, crafts, and story time; and learn the age-appropriate fundamentals of socialization. Even when children are living together in an orphanage, the experience of entering an LWB Believe in Me classroom at the orphanage brings out the individual personalities of each child and exposes him or her to a new world. Like all preschoolers,  that first exposure to school can be overwhelming. Jamie wasn’t very happy to start school in September.

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Jia Qi: LWB’s Featured Student of the Week

Jia Qi is not afraid.

Jia Qi is not afraid of hard work. He works for a token sum at the university library and still finds time to do volunteer work to help others.

Jia Qi is not afraid of a physical handicap. At three years old he became ill with polio. He uses one of his hands to help him walk. Read more.

Announcing The 2012 Teacher Training Team

The wait is over, and we are ready to announce that we have found our team for the 2012 teacher training! We are so thankful for the dozens of amazing educators who applied this year. We had a really challenging job narrowing down who would be on this year’s team as all of the applicants were so talented. How awesome that so many teachers and therapists across America wanted to give a week of their summer break to help orphaned children with special needs in China!

The team that has been chosen represents a diverse set of skills that we feel will be extremely beneficial for the training. Our team members include Amy H. from Florida, seen above with her family. Amy brings 11 years of teaching experience in Elementary Education with special education inclusion. Read more.

Give Them the Power to Dream

For many of us in the United States and other western countries, opportunities abound, especially when it comes to the world of education. All American children know they can attend high school, and most will attend some college. On the other side of the world, however, children face a completely different reality.

In many of the poorest and most rural provinces in China, many children have no chance at an education. It is not because they are unable to do the work but that they are unable to pay the astonishingly high price of a high school education. Read more.

Isaac: LWB’s Featured Child of the Week

Isaac is a gentle and kind-hearted four-year-old. He lives at the orphanage in Huainan and attends the Believe in Me School there. Isaac’s teachers say that he participates happily and follows directions well. He is a good helper and clearly very bright. His favorite activities at school are playing with playdough and doing puzzles. Although he is shy and quiet, Isaac is a good friend to his classmates. He especially likes spending time with his best friend, Maxie. They can often be seen walking hand-in-hand. Read more.

Kimmie: An Education Success Story

Kimmie, a seven-year-old girl in our Believe in Me Changde School, is a lovely young girl! We first met her in 2007 at a physical and occupational therapy camp held at the Changde orphanage. At that time the orphanage director was reluctant to let Kimmie join in class lessons, but a few determined LWB volunteers helped to change the director’s mind.

Not long after the camp, this precious young lady walked for the first time, with the use of a walker donated at the camp. As Kimmie does with most everything, she approached walking with tremendous determination and a gigantic smile. Read more.

Birch: LWB’s Featured Child of the Week

LWB’s Education team is proud to introduce you to this handsome young man, Birch, a four-year-old boy in our Believe in Me Shantou school. This precious young boy has epilepsy, but he does not let that get him down. He has a great time at school every day!

In the classroom Birch likes to stay busy. His teachers have told us that he loves to build and that he will use nearly any toy they give him to try to build something. Perhaps this sweet child will grow up to be an architect! Read more.

Abby: LWB’s Featured Child of the Week

This is Abby (in the striped shirt), who attends LWB’s Believe in Me Huainan School. She will be eight this month and is in a kindergarten preparation class. She knows how to listen carefully in class and can write characters perfectly. She plays with the younger children and takes good care of them.

Our Huainan School Nutrition Project was started to help Abby and her classmates receive better nutrition. Our recent Red Envelope Campaign raised needed funds for this program. Read more.

Teacher Training in China

Having adopted two little girls from China, I was very aware of Love Without Boundaries and the special programs that it provides in China. The day I walked through my oldest daughter’s orphanage in March of 2002, I knew that I would return one day and “give back” to the kids left behind. I wasn’t exactly sure what I would do, but I knew I would return. Once you walk through an orphanage, it changes your perspective on life….at least it did for me.

Fast forward to the Fall of 2010. I saw a post on Facebook from Amy Eldridge asking for volunteers for a “Teacher Training” trip. I was interested in gaining more information and emailed Amy. I was chosen to be part of the “team” and was thrilled. Read more.