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Patrick Strikes a Pose

I just love this photo of Patrick – he looks like he is posing for his school photograph or modeling for a catalog.

Nine-year-old Patrick is part of our Kaifeng Foster Care Program in Henan and is waiting for a family through China’s Waiting Child program. Currently he attends school, and his teacher says he is eager to learn and improves quickly.

He was visited last week by some of our volunteers.  They remarked on how happy and thrilled he was when they gave him paper and markers to draw.  He enthusiastically began showing them what he could write.  Everyone found him to be sociable and good-natured.  In addition, Patrick seems to have a good sense of people, quickly assessing your level of friendliness and then giving you a sign he is friendly too.
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Foster Care News from Lu’An

Our foster care program director, Arlene Howard, is currently in China with some other great LWB volunteers visiting all of our programs in Anhui and Henan. They arrived bright and early in Lu’an ready for a full day’s work. The children were so excited to see them coming, as they know that visitors often mean lots of hugs and new toys!
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Wendy: LWB’s Featured Child of the Week

Sweet little Wendy is seventeen months old and from Henan Province. When Wendy first came to the attention of LWB-Medical, her orphanage suspected she had anemia but her test results were confusing. We sent her to a large hospital in Chengdu for more specialized testing. From these tests, we found out that Wendy has been diagnosed with a very rare type of thalassemia (an inherited condition that affects the blood). Wendy needs monthly blood transfusions in order to live.

Wendy is a very sick baby who is in need of help. She needs $1000 to provide her with transfusions for 3 months, as well as travel costs and care to and from the hospital.  To help contribute to her medical costs, please visit her sponsor page.
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Hollie is Quite Jolly!

Look at that darling smile!   Sixteen-month-old Hollie has plenty of personality and is very social and outgoing. In fact, she loves to be out and about in crowded places in her stroller and talks and responds with giggles and glee when adults play with her.  Hollie is part of our Sanmenxia Foster Care Program in Henan, and we love reading about how she has bonded so well with her foster family, especially her foster grandmother. Every night when Hollie goes to bed, she wants to hear her grandmother’s voice to fall asleep. If the grandmother isn’t around, she will cry for her.
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Colin and a Few of His Favorite Things

Colin is a charming 7-year-old boy in need of a forever family. Love Without Boundaries provided a foster family for him in 2009 in our Sanmenxia Foster Care program in Henan. We are thrilled that Colin has bonded beautifully with his foster family and is especially close to his foster grandmother, with whom he loves to take walks. If she allows him to help her, he will give up anything — even the chance to play with his friends!
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Adorable Aiden

Aiden from Kaifeng, Henan Province, just turned eight. While he is a little shy, you wouldn’t guess it from his grin!   He’s currently a student in LWB’s Kaifeng Education program where he receives tutoring. Every day before class, he helps the teacher move the table and carry the chairs.  He also likes to help his fellow students. He helps pick up books off the ground, helps other children move their chairs and loves to help his fellow student, Grace, learn her numbers.
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Running Through China: A Peek At What Is to Come!

Amy meeting baby Sam at the Henan Cleft Healing Home

As many of you know, travelling in China can be an exhilarating — but exhausting experience.  Our three intrepid travellers — Paige, Amy and Sheri — have been extremely busy and can’t wait to share their stories with us!  However, they are having some computer and internet problems in China and will therefore post tales of their travels when they return home next week.  In the meantime, here are a few photos from their adventures!
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Adoption Assistance Grants

If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb…then you have the power to do something about it. — Betty Eadie

The above quote illustrates exactly what Love Without Boundaries hopes to be able to do through our Adoption Assistance Grant program. We hope to help fulfill the lives of children and parents alike through providing monetary assistance in grants to bring orphaned children together with families who will love and care for them. This is our love in action.

One of our recent grant recipients is Gideon Lu Shi, shown above.  LWB’s medical program had been helping to provide assistance to Lu Shi, as he was known prior to his adoption, for complications due to a spinal tumor. Lu Shi was quickly approaching 14 years old when he first became eligible for international adoption.  By law, only children younger than 14 years can be adopted from China. When we received word that he had a family trying desperately to adopt him before he aged out of the adoption program, everyone was hoping and praying they would be able to make it happen.  
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A Glimpse into a Volunteer’s Visit

Love Without Boundaries functions as a virtual foundation and is run by volunteers from a variety of states and countries around the world. Most volunteers dream of one day visiting the program into which they pour their hearts and meeting some of the children they know only “virtually” through photos. One LWB volunteer, Diana Cheng, recently made time during a vacation to visit the program she coordinates, and we asked her to share some of this experience with LWB Community.
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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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