Visiting Our Lu’an Foster Care Children
On April 17th and 18th, 2009, Gina Hall (Lu’An Foster Care Assistant) accompanied me to visit the Lu’An Foster Care Children.
On April 17th and 18th, 2009, Gina Hall (Lu’An Foster Care Assistant) accompanied me to visit the Lu’An Foster Care Children.
The last day of the Medical Exchange was a smooth day filled with laughter.
“Super Ambitious Day” was Mission Accomplished! It was a day of challenges, learning and fun.
Yesterday, Jone and her friend Aitor toured Lu’an, an orphanage where we do both medical and foster care. They first visited the orphanage and then our foster care families.
The last days of a Cleft Mission are always the busiest! Today was a day filled with joy and laughter as many of the children who had surgery on the first day left to return to their hometowns and more children arrived to prepare for their surgeries tomorrow.
Today started with Becca searching for food. She was not happy to miss her breakfast and was determined to find milk or food.
Jone, our representative from LWB Spain, who with her travel companion Aitor, left Shanghai today and traveled to Hefei, Anhui. Today they visited the Hefei SWI and the Anhui Cleft Healing Home. Here are today’s gorgeous pictures from their travels.
Here are some pictures from the orphanage
And also some from the Healing Home
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The first day of surgery has flown by smoothly. What a wonderful day it was. Everyone got up early in order to get to the hospital by 8am. The nurses did not know who would be first so all the children were prepared.
How best to put into words, the excitement, joy and wonder of an international medical exchange. Great things always happen when people travel from near and far to come together to heal children in need. It was an incredible first day.
Our team has arrived safely and on time and includes Dr. Ness, Dr. Martin, LWB [...]
When we walked onto the unit today, we were met by a chorus of crying babies. It seemed everyone was fussy; after awhile, it started to sound like a song.