Our Friday Photo of the Week features tiny Jimmy from our Zhaotong foster care program. Our manager delivered some new toys to each child in the program recently and captured Jimmy checking out his new blocks. Doesn’t it look like they’re nearly as big as he is? He’s only a few months old and has just arrived in foster care, so we’ll look forward to seeing Jimmy grow into his new blocks in the months to come!
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It’s Friday, and we’d like to introduce you to some darling new arrivals to our foster care programs!
At just two months old, winsome Kim has already experienced surgery for pulmonary cysts. We are hoping she will be released from the hospital next week so she can join our Zhang Village foster care program. Doesn’t she look anxious to get started with the real business of life? All of us on the Foster Care team feel incredibly privileged to be able to work with children like Kim and watch these children grow and develop within their foster families. We enjoy watching their personalities develop and are so grateful to our wonderful foster families and sponsors.
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For the past two and a half years, exuberant eight-year old Rosa has been in our Zhaotong foster care program. Rosa was born with a clubbed foot and an extra toe and also has suffered nerve damage following surgery for spinal bifida. These and other medical issues have prevented her from attending school, but Rosa refuses to let that stop her from learning. To support her desire to read and write, her foster parents bought a little desk and chair for her and put it in their home. Every day, Rosa sits down with her exercise books and pencils and practises writing characters and some mathematical problems. Her most fervent hope and dream is to go to school.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle;
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim ‘ere he drove out of sight,
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!” — Clement Clarke Moore
Joanne from Zhaotong Foster Care is showing Santa how it’s done as she puts her finger aside her adorable nose! We are thrilled to announce that she will be meeting her forever family in the new year.
Harvest is a special time of year to people around the world. In China, the Moon Festival is second only to Chinese New Year in importance and is a special time for families to gather together, gaze at the full moon….and eat mooncakes!
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Please let me share a few summer stories with you about our children in Zhaotong .
This is our high-spirited Mei. She had her cleft lip repaired nine months ago and is described as ‘an extrovert and active’, in other words, she is a handful!
Mason, age 29 months, Zhaotong foster care.
Our Zhaotong foster care coordinator, Jennifer Drake, shares her favorite comment from Mason’s monthly report: “He is so generous to others that he will give you his only biscuit without being asked. But then he will cry for another biscuit.”
Did you have a nickname growing up? Some names are definitely more endearing than others. My husband, for example had the name “Dog Tooth” thanks to his 2 older brothers…not exactly the type of name you want to keep during your dating years. When I read Jennifer Drake’s monthly update on [...]
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