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Celebrating 2012

While we wish we could post the photo of every child we helped in 2012, we hope you will enjoy this much shorter snapshot of some of the joys of this last year!

In January, we celebrated our Unity Fund, which works to heal poor, rural children so that families can stay together.  HeQing’s father had no financial means to heal his precious daughter’s heart, and we are so grateful to our donors who gave her this second chance at a healthy life.  As you can see, her smile absolutely lit up the hospital ward! Read more.

Foster Care’s visit to XiaoXian

Our foster care team’s visit to XiaoXian in Anhui was a day filled with laughter.   We think handing out new beanie babies probably had something to do with it!   The little boys also discovered that writing on your hands with new markers is pretty funny as well, as you can see from Sawyer’s photo above.
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2010 Cleft Trip – final day

Saturday saw many more children being discharged from the hospital. The nannies had their babies all bundled up and ready to head for the train station for their journeys home. The parents of the rural kids we were able to heal were emotional as they thanked our team for helping their children. Our staff in China were deeply moved by their words.

The medical team from the US was trying their best to hurry out of Fujian before Typhoon Meigi came ashore. They were delighted to find that several caregivers and babies would be traveling with them to the airport. Maureen Brogan wrote the following: Read more.

Day Six of the 2010 Cleft Surgery Trip

Today was the final day of surgeries. The doctors repaired Jesse’s cleft lip today, and several rural children received palate repairs.

As we have seen so many adorable photos throughout the week, we thought it would be a good idea to put the before and after photos together in a gallery so you can see, in one place, what was accomplished this week! These are photos of just the lip repairs since you can’t see a change with a repaired palate, but that doesn’t mean those repairs are any less dramatic.

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Day Five of the 2010 Cleft Surgery Trip

So many kids healed and futures transformed. Such love and concern surrounding the children. Day five has been another emotional and wonderful day as the doctors, staff, and volunteers have all worked together to give the gifts of hope and healing to the children.
Fenn is finally smiling at us again. We are so happy! It was really hard when he stopped smiling at us after surgery, but fortunately we are now back in his good graces. Read more.

Day Four of the 2010 Cleft Surgery Trip

Dr. Ness and Dr. Martin deserve Superman nicknames today as they did five bilateral cleft surgeries, which made for a very intense day. The repairs look wonderful, and we are so grateful that the kids are receiving such beautiful repairs. We wanted to share this before and after photo of Lianne (just a day after surgery), so you can see what an artist he is in the OR. (I did remove a bit of the blood from her nose with a photo tool, but the rest is all from Dr. Ness!) Her aunty had changed her out of her little blue hospital gown back into her pink sweater and hat, and I think this is the first time we have had a baby in the same outfit for a before and after shot! Read more.

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.

Cleft Exchange Day Six — Final Day

The last day of the Medical Exchange was a smooth day filled with laughter.

Cleft Exchange Day Five

“Super Ambitious Day” was Mission Accomplished! It was a day of challenges, learning and fun.

LWB Spain at Lu’An

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.