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News – November 2007
Dear Friends and Supporters,
Work has started on the foundations of the new Shaohannah’s Hope Home in Luoyang and so far, things are going smoothly.
Building sites don’t make pretty pictures but these are the foundations on which many orphan’s lives will be saved and their futures changed for the better:
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Hope Healing Home Beijing
Our babies who went for plastic surgery in Shanghai have all returned. We have had a few complications with a couple of them but the rest are doing very well. See below a couple of before and after pictures.
We are very grateful to Love Without Boundaries and their team and we look forward to their next surgical mission trip.
Gabriel, who is still in Hong Kong, has had his hip surgery and all is well. The surgeon will also operate on his wrists which are badly crippled by his condition (arthrogryposis). He is being cared for by Sylvia H, a volunteer from the UK who has done this for us several times before.
Will, who had a serious infection of his bowel and was also born with no anus, is now home with us after 2 surgeries. His anus has been reconstructed and in about 6 months from now he will have a third operation to close his colostomy.
X Wei’s treatment for his club foot has been completed and he has been returned to his foster home in Gong Yi, Henan Province.
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Connie, before and after |
Grace, before and after
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| Gabriel | Will | X Wei | |
Adoptions
Grace Marie left us on 11th November to be with her new family from Sweden. She had been with us for 3 years and will be sadly missed. She bonded very quickly to her new family who has another daughter about 8 years old.
Howie has also been picked up by his American parents this month. This is an awesome outcome for Howie who was born with Down’s syndrome, imperforate anus and a club foot. We have no words to describe our joy for this sweet little boy and our deepest admiration for the young couple who have chosen him, their first child, above all others. Many people in many parts of the world will be rejoicing.
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| Grace Marie | Howie with his parents |
New babies
DH Ming, from our palliative care unit in Luoyang, will stay with us in Beijing as there is a very good chance that she will be able to go to the US for treatment very soon, thanks to the efforts of former volunteers Mariah and Melissa B from South Carolina.
ZQ Qiao, from Henan Province, requires surgery for the cancerous growth in her left eye.
Z Wei, also from Henan Province, needs neurosurgery for a birth defect of her lower spine. Her prognosis looks very good.
FT Zhou, also from Henan Province, has also been admitted with weakness of his left arm and leg.
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| DH Ming | ZQ Qiao | Z Wei | FT Zhou |
Love Without Boundaries Shun Yi Outreach Foster Program
The kids in the Outreach program are doing well.
YX Jia and HC Xiao may have to be moved into this Outreach program. We are hoping that Jia may have an opportunity in the US for heart surgery and we are working on it. Sadly, there are no options open at the moment for Xiao.
The number of children in this outreach program has now risen to 24.
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| YX Jia | HC Xiao |
NHF Special Care Units, Jiaozuo and Luoyong, Henan Province (75 beds)
Jiaozuo
We said a fond farewell to Douglas and Fred. They were loved to the end.
Luoyang
This month Grace, LynLee, Cathy, Helen, Jemima, Denzel and Suzy passed away peacefully.
Stephen left Luoyang on 19th November for Hangzhou for heart surgery. Please keep him in your prayers. If all goes well for him, he will be yet another child whose life will be saved after being sent to our unit initially with little hope.
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| Stephen |
Xin Yang
This new unit is running well manned by 2 Filipina nurses and a full complement of nannies to care for 18 babies.
Cathy and Chona passed away peacefully.
Love Without Boundaries Heartbridge Rehabilitation Unit (18 beds)
Miao is in Hong Kong being assessed for her inability to feed resulting in severe malnutrition. So far we have had no clear answers from the investigations we have done here and we hope that the team in Hong Kong will be able to help.
Yi, who had had heart surgery followed by a serious infection, seems to be doing well despite the odds. Thanks to those who prayed for her and to the doctors in Hangzhou who did not give up on her.
Niu went to Hangzhou for heart surgery and this was successful.
There were three new admissions: Quan and Zhuang from Guangdong Province; and Wen from Jiangxi Province.
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| DM Miao | LC Yi | HN Niu | SA Quan | SA Zhuang | LC Wen |
Our Most Sincere Thanks To
- K Lim for covering the costs of heart exams for FS Xiang and FM Lian in response to the need mentioned last month.
- The Tudor Foundation (Singapore) for their very generous financial donation as a group as well as personal donations from Stephen R and Ashwin R.
- The Mitchie family in Hong Kong for offering to provide temporary accommodation for Sylvia and Gabriel and for sponsoring one of the baby rooms in our new Special Care Unit in Xinyang.
- AML for sponsoring 2 children’s bedrooms in the Xinyang Unit.
- ChinaKidzfor sponsoring the 3rd bedroom in the Xinyang Unit.
- Harry and Kit Wan H for covering the costs of XJ Mei and DH Ming to travel to Shanghai to be assessed by a US plastic surgeon.
- Shaohannah’s Hope for covering the cost of travel of 5 of the cleft lip children for surgery in Shanghai.
- All those who have recently sponsored several of our children in our Baby Sponsorship program.
- To the Duchesne Academy who donated funds for travel for heart surgery for Stephen.
- To Clarkson Asia Ltd, Hong Kong, for their generous donation of funds.
Our Needs
It is the nature of our work that 99.9% of our kids in Beijing require surgical or medical intervention of some kind, many of them life-saving procedures. When treatment has to be done in China, it is not free. Without these hospital admissions, they would not be alive. This year to date we have spent about US $130,000 on hospital bills.
Here is a list of some of the children who need funds for their surgery or medical treatment. Please help if you are able to. Donations for these kids, no matter how small, will go towards saving a child’s life.
- Will still needs US $2,000 to cover the cost his recent bowel surgeries.
- The heart surgery for Eddie as not been completely sponsored and we need another US$1000 to cover his costs.
- Abby Joy was in hospital with severe asthma as soon as she returned from cleft surgery. Her hospital costs were US $12,000.
- Stephen needs about US$5,000 for his heart surgery. This is his second heart surgery. His first was generously paid for by A Mother’s Love.
- ZQ Qiao needs surgery soon to remove a cancerous growth in her left eye. Her surgery is estimated to be about $3,000.
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| Will | Eddie | Abby Joy | Stephen | ZQ Qiao |
With our deepest gratitude,
Joyce and Robin Hill
“For He has not ignored the suffering of the needy He has not turned and walked away He has listened to their cries for help.”
– Psalms 22: 24
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