One of our staff members in China recently had the privilege of meeting this sweet young man and his family who we are hoping to help through our Unity Fund.
JunYu is 11 years old and was born with several complex medical issues. He was found as a baby in 2002 by a kind teacher who took him home to raise as her own. She and her husband now have a four year old son and an elderly mother that they care for as well and JunYu. Read more.
We were first asked to help Jiang when he was eleven months old. A relative of Jiang’s worked as a nanny in an orphanage where we help many children, and the nanny directed Jiang’s family to apply for help through Love Without Boundaries. Partnering with Smile Train in Kunming, we were able to provide cleft lip surgery for Jiang in February of 2012 with the help of our Unity Fund. His family traveled 200 miles from their home in a rural town in Guizhou to seek help for their son. 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.
Five-year-old Jin Bing has a complicated heart defect. When he was a baby, Jin Bing’s mother abandoned the family, and his father had to become a migrant worker in a province far away. Jin Bing became another “left behind” child who is now being raised by his grandmother in very meager conditions. The family has no financial means to pay for the life saving surgery this little boy needs.
This sweet child needs surgery in order to grow and lead a healthy life. LWB’s Unity Fund exists to help families like Jin Bing’s who are facing major medical expenses stay together. We would love to help this family and lift the burden that they are facing. By donating to JinBing’s surgery fund, you would be giving this child and his family hope for his future.
To help Jin Bing and other children like him, visit our medical sponsorship page and use these last few days of 2012 to change a life!
In July, our blog called “Out of Despair, a Chance for Hope” featured a boy named Ye Yu from the countryside of Anhui. Ye Yu’s soulful expression and story of his parents seeking to fund their son’s heart surgery against all odds resonated with our supporters, and the response was phenomenal. In just seven days, his surgery was completely funded! Read more.
Fourteen-year-old Chun Xia lives with his mother in an extremely poor area of China. When his father passed away two years ago from heart failure, Chun Xia took it quite hard and suffered from headaches, loss of appetite and fatigue. At first, his mother didn’t worry too much. When his complaints became more serious every day, his mother took him to a big hospital in the city of Xian as their area has a serious lack of medical resources. The hospital discovered that like his father, Chun Xia also suffers from congenital VSD in addition to pulmonary hypertension (PH). Congential VSD is not considered a particularly serious heart disease, but surgery can be quite risky when combined with PH. Chun Xia and his mother were quite shocked and upset by this news as they did not have any idea that he suffered from the same heart problems that caused his father’s death.
With hopeful hearts, Chun Xia and his mother traveled to Shanghai in search of medical help. Read more.
LWB’s Unity Fund began several years ago to provide critical medical care to children living in extreme poverty. Usually in this program, the government provides a portion of the surgery funds, the parents provide a portion, and then LWB provides the remaining funds needed for a child to receive surgery. We have said before that the families who contact us for this program are always desperate, and many times when our team members in China hear their stories, their hearts are burdened. Today we want to introduce you to a little boy named Ye Yu, whose father wrote us a letter this past weekend begging for help for his son.
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Did you ever wonder just how LWB got started on its mission of helping orphaned and impoverished children in China? If so, we think you’ll enjoy reading about how our programs began small and grew to help more children than our founders ever imagined! Amy Eldridge, LWB’s Executive Director, writes about LWB’s Medical program — the one that began it all. Read more.
The cleft exchange medical team has arrived safely to Kaifeng in anticipation of the surgeries beginning early Monday morning. In addition, 26 babies arrived on Sunday from orphanages throughout China, and our team helped them get settled into the hospital. We wonder if you can identify the province this group was from by their baby carriers?
We have four wonderful physicians on this trip from Minnesota – Dr. John Ness, Dr. Chris Tolan, Dr. Neil Derechin, and Dr. Kathy Clinch. They spent Sunday doing pre-op physicals on the children and making sure each child was in good health for their life changing operations. Read more.
When LWB first started our Unity Medical Fund, it was with the hope that we could actually prevent children from becoming orphaned. Through our medical work in China, we had learned that many parents abandon their children born with medical needs when they are unable to pay for the surgeries their children need. Our LWB managers had been approached multiple times by pleading rural parents who didn’t have the funds to get their child admitted to the hospital for care. They would frantically say, “we will give you our child if you will just save her life.” There is only one word to describe what I saw in too many rural parents’ eyes when they could not afford to help their child: desperation.
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