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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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Future Fisherman

Sweet William could be a fisherman in the making. This cheery three year is a favorite at his local fishing store in Kaifeng, Henan province. The locals there love him and teaching him about the sport. But what William really needs is a mom or dad of his own to teach him how to fish…and to be his forever family.
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A Closer Look at our Top Ten Photos of 2009…Number Five

Baby Stephen came to our Henan Cleft Healing Home weighing just 2 kg. He was a fragile little baby who had to be hospitalized immediately because he was so sick. Stephen still has a long way to go, but he has now doubled his weight. This photo illustrates how truly vulnerable so many babies with cleft are. We love that our healing homes can give these precious children a second chance.
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A Closer Look at the Top Ten Photos of 2009

Last year, we posted some of our very favorite photos from 2009 (and believe us when we tell you that choosing favorites from among the thousands of adorable photos we get is no easy task!) We then asked friends of LWB to choose their favorites from among our favorites. Now we would like to share each photo that made our Top Ten Photos of 2009 list once again so you can see which photos stood out from the crowd.

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