Meigan, a precious two-year-old girl, started preschool in LWB’s Believe in Me Jinjiang School just a few weeks ago.
She is very shy and was a little bit scared to begin her new “big girl” life, but we hope that she will settle in with ease as she gets to know her new teachers and routine. This beautiful girl is going to learn appropriate preschool manners, participate in art activities, and be exposed to writing and reading of Chinese pinyin. Read more.
In China on New Year’s Day (February 10th this year), children in families receive money in red paper envelopes, and celebrate with large feasts, festivals and lots of time with relatives. However, there are many children in China without families to celebrate with them. There are many children who will not feast, and in fact, many who are hungry every day. This year, to honor those children and make a difference in their lives, Love Without Boundaries (LWB) is doing a Red Envelope campaign to provide a New Year’s gift to an orphan. Read more.
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.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ~Nelson Mandela
As the West starts to get into the routine of a new school year, so do the children in our Believe in Me schools in China. The LWB Education team is proud to welcome back all of our amazing teachers and students for the 2012 – 2013 school year. With over 300 students in our schools, we are a very busy program and are extremely excited about what this school year will hold for our precious and amazing children! Welcome back….
Changde Believe in Me School
We are so excited to be opening our eighth Believe in Me school in Liupanshui, Guizhou. This school will open in October after the new teachers attend Montessori training in Beijing. These teachers also recently spent a full week at our Believe in Me Jinjiang School learning from some of our veteran teachers and seeing how a Believe in Me school should be run. We are proud of our schools and know the Jinjiang teachers were excited to be able to share their knowledge with their new colleagues. Read more.
In February 2011, I was provided with the amazing opportunity to go to Jinjiang and help train LWB Believe In Me teachers in speech and language skills. One of the highlights of the trip was meeting Jesse. Jesse is a little guy with an infectious belly laugh (which you can see in the video below) and amazing smile. He also has both albinism and a cleft lip/palate. Each condition on their own can be scary and together may seem daunting. But don’t be afraid. If this is your little boy, know that neither of these conditions are related to each other and both are very manageable. Read more.
Please meet our sparkling, smart, delightful Sammy! Sammy is a very bright little nine-year-old boy at our Believe in Me Jinjiang School, who is also on the shared list. Many of us who know and love Sammy are thrilled to think that there is a family somewhere who will be blessed to have him as a member. This dear boy is as clever as can be and has such a bright future ahead of him. He is speaking, singing, dancing, running, beginning to memorize and read, and is working hard to learn and grow in school. His kind heart and very funny sense of humor endear him to everyone. Read more.
Hey guys, check it out…I’m finally at school! ~Benjie
We have such exciting news about four-year-old Benjie, one of our recent blog “stars.” When we last reported on Benjie (“Remember Bashful Benjie?”), we had learned more about his special need and discovered that he had a significant hearing impairment. While this is definitely an obstacle, especially one for a child with disabled fingers who may not be able to learn sign language as easily as others, we felt that we had to try to get Benjie into an educational environment. Now Benjie is a new student at our Believe in Me Jinjiang School and is doing so well!
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Some LWB volunteers traveled to Jinjiang this past February and had a wonderful visit! They found the teachers were working hard and cared a lot for the children. “Bashful Benjie”, featured in our February 17th blog post, was one of the children they got to meet. While we were introducing Benjie to our readers, our volunteers were meeting him in person.
What they noticed about Benjie was that he has multiple special needs. In addition to a disability of his hands, it turns out that Benjie does in fact have a significant hearing impairment. This explains more about why he was not talking much when we blogged about him.
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I don’t mean to be bashful, but I was. – Willie Mays
Like Willie Mays, four-year-old Benjie is quite a bashful boy. According to the nannies at the Jinjiang orphanage where he lives, he is pleasant but prefers to play alone. So far, Benjie doesn’t speak although he is not believed to be deaf or mute. Although he is getting good care at the orphanage, we feel that a shy boy like Benjie could absolutely blossom with a family of his own to bring him out of his shell.
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