Precious Pickpocket
Samuel of Heartbridge was recently caught red-handed as he lifted a credit card from the bag of Peter, our Foster Care Director in China. We know you’ll agree that there never was a cuter pickpocket anywhere!
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Farrell the Brave
In a perfect world, the life of a newborn infant should be a peaceful one: eating, sleeping, snuggling warmly up against momma. A baby’s needs are met quickly, and after a little cuddle time, they fall contentedly back to sleep. That’s how it should be, but shortly after his birth, Farrell’s perfect world turned upside-down.
Near the end of January, a 10-day-old infant came into the care of the Kaifeng orphanage in Henan Province. He was severely burned below the waist, with third-degree burns covering over ten percent of his tiny body.
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A Reminder from Emilio to Help Heartbridge – Shop the “Born in My Heart” Art Auction, April 22-27!
Meet Emillio. Doesn’t he have a winning smile? But this adorable little boy didn’t have much to smile about just a few short months ago.
Emillio was born in October 2009. This tiny baby came into orphanage care with a severe bowel obstruction. Love Without Boundaries was contacted about him, and our medical team was able to arrange immediate surgery to save his life. After a successful surgery, Emillio recovered for two weeks in the hospital and then returned to the care of his orphanage.
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Mighty Marshal
Little Marshal always has his hands clenched in a fist in just about every photo we see of him. Doesn’t he look like a fighter? He lives at Heartbridge Pediatric Healing Unit and was one of the babies who was hospitalized due to pneumonia in both January and February. He is now stronger and is about to have surgery to remove cataracts from both eyes.
All of our darling babies at Heartbridge are fighters like Marshal. However, they need our help! Please remember our Heartbridge “Luck O’ The Irish” fundraiser going on this week and help give healing and hope to Marshal and his friends.
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Help Bring the Luck of the Irish to Chinese Children!
All around the world today, people will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. The Irish community literally spans the globe with nearly 80 million people claiming Irish descent! Please join the spirit of those who helped make you the person you are today by reaching out across the world to help heal one of the fragile babies in our Heartbridge Pediatric Healing Unit. Many fragile babies at Heartbridge are suffering through pneumonia, and many have been hospitalized. It has been a long and difficult winter, and we still have babies battling for their little lives. So in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we are holding a “Luck of the Irish” fundraiser from March 17-23! We hope to bring the luck of the Irish to these Heartbridge babies to help raise funds for their continued nurture and care.
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Help for Heartbridge
Heartbridge really needs your help! The Healing Homes team has been working hard to bring this essential program up to full sponsorship and meet our monthly budget. With a little help from the LWB General Fund and several fundraisers, we thought we might squeak through 2010 without any shortfall. And then…the virus hit.
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A Closer Look at our Top Ten Photos of 2009…Number Three
Don’t you love this photo of Jacob taking his first steps at our Heartbridge Pediatric Healing Unit? Look at the joy and excitement on that face! Jacob was born with an abdominal issue requiring immediate emergency surgery, which LWB provided. Following his operation, he was moved to our Heartbridge Unit outside of Beijing to recover, and all of the nannies quickly fell in love with his sunny personality. He has now been discharged into our foster care program, and we are hopeful that this year will find him with a permanent family of his own!
Samuel’s Smile
Everyone smiles in the same language. — Author Unknown
You don’t have to know Chinese to find out how little Samuel is feeling. He is one happy little fellow, and it’s right there on his face for anyone to see!
Merry Christmas from LWB!
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Happy Holidays from Kathy at Heartbridge… and all of us at LWB!
On the Third Day of Christmas…
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. — Janice Maeditere
Whose heart could not be opened by the hope and happiness written all over Jackson’s face? He is certainly bringing joy to everyone at Heartbridge this winter!
