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News – January 2009
Dear Friends and Supporters,
A Happy New Year to you all and a Happy Spring Festival to all our Chinese friends. We pray that the New Year brings renewed hope to those who have had a difficult 2008. Winter is always a difficult time for many of our vulnerable babies who succumb easily to respiratory infections. We are grateful to so many of you who continue to supply us with medications to help them. 4 babies were admitted to Beijing United Family Hospital this winter, needing help for serious lung infections. We are very grateful to the staff at the hospital for their assistance. We have employed several new nurses to help manage the Special Care units and they are now under training for the next few months. Visa issues are a problem for them at the moment but we continue to keep this issue in prayer and hope for some resolution soon.
Chinese New Year was celebrated as usual with fireworks and traditional gifts of rice, oil and dried fish to all our local staff to signify that food will be abundantly available to their families this coming year. We now employ approximately 250 local Chinese staff and we appreciate each and every one of them.
Hope Healing Home, Beijing
Justin was sent to Singapore for heart surgery. It has been delayed because of a chest infection.
HJ Lun and LG Qiu admitted to Beijing United Family Hospital in respiratory distress. LG Qiu was admitted twice and is still there at time of writing.
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Justin |
HJ Lun |
LG Qiu |
Adoptions
There have been no adoptions this month.
Maria’s Big House of Hope, Louyang
Two truck loads of equipment and furnishings were sent to Maria’s Big House of Hope this month and a team of enthusiastic young people from Show Hopewere there to put everything in place.
Love Without Boundaries Shunyi Outreach Foster Program
Henry was brought back in-house for a few days for treatment of an ear infection and he is now well.
All children in the Outreach program received new outfits from Love Without Boundaries for Chinese New Year. Here are some pictures:
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NHF Special Care Units, Jiaozuo, Luoyang and Xin Yang, Henan Province (75 beds)
These units provide humane and loving, hospice care for infants and young children with severe congenital defects who are unlikely to survive under normal circumstances. Those who survive are unexpected blessings.
Jiaozuo
Jane, Leny, Lorence and Nicole were admitted this month. Ron and Betty were returned in reasonable condition to the SWI. Jane died peacefully.
Luoyang
Philip and Yohan were admitted but passed away quickly. Kyle and Marion were discharged to the SWI and Stacy and Stephanie were transferred from Xinyang to Luoyang in the hope of arranging corrective surgery.
Xin Yang
Stephanie was admitted and moved to Luoyang with Stacy who was admitted last month.
Love Without Boundaries Heartbridge Rehabilitation Unit (18 beds)
There was 1 new admission this month: LG Qiu who is recovering from heart surgery and poor lung function. She was admitted to Beijing United Family Hospital twice.
All children in this unit were also provided with new outfits for Chinese New Year.
Here are some pictures:
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Our Most Sincere Thanks
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To UPS for a substantial donation of funds.
- To Excellence in Giving for paying for us to take a vacation of our choice, which we will do in the Spring when medical cover will be provided by Dr Lim from Australia. Although the children are always our priority, we do need to take some time off for a rest so that we can recharge our energies to keep serving them. We very much appreciate this gift and the thoughtfulness of the giver.
- To all those who continue to support us with child sponsorship, funds and medicines.
With our deepest gratitude,
Joyce and Robin Hill
“I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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