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Visions of Sugar Plums |
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| The Royal Lagoon Executive Resort presented True Children’s Home with gingerbread cookies and
a ginger-bread house for the children. Yu Hui (in both photos) and Xin Huan (pictured left) had a fun
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Please Take Note |
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| True Children’s Home is coordinating a new affiliation with another non-profit organization that will
enable us to reach out to more children in China. Effective January 1, 2009, we will no longer be
affiliated with China Care Foundation. Hold on to your checks and keep up your fundraising efforts
as we expect to have new donation processing in place for the U.S. by the end of January 2009. |
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Children's Home
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Ao Huan (girl)
Born May 2008
Cleft lip and palate
Abandoned in Guangdong Province
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Yang Biao (boy)
Born June 2008
Cleft lip and palate
Abandoned in Guangdong Province
Welcomed to Dongguan 2 |
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Yang Nian (girl)
Born October 2008
Club Feet
Abandoned in Guangdong Province
Welcomed to Dongguan 2 |
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Children's Home
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Faust International School Sponsors November Birthdays |
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Hai Qing (left)
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first birthday! |
Xiao Yuan (right)
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first birthday! |
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Chen Feng (left)
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Xin Huan (right)
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second birthday! |
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Medical Care Program
Surgeries and Treatments |
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Hai Sha
Foster Care Mother—Wu Yong Xia
Foster Care Father—Chen Rong Guang
Third time foster parents |
Xiao Yuan
Foster Care Mother—Liu Cai Lian
Foster Care Father—Lin Yun Qiang
Second time foster parents |
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Foster Care
Friends in the Park |
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A Fun Day in the Park |
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Ai Li celebrates her first birthday with friends! |
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Friends in the Park |
Hai Xuan enjoys a rocket ride |
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| During November, students from West Island School, Hong Kong, again joined the Friends in the
Park outing. Students from WIS have gathered and delivered supplies for the children. |
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Keeping Families Together |
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One of the ways that TCH makes a difference in
the lives of children in China is by educating their
parents. This young couple, the mother is 16
years old and the father is 25 years old, have a
young son, Zeng Ming, who was born with a cleft
lip and palate. When TCH Director, Katrina Ouyang, found out about this couple, she went into action. To the family she brought cleft bottles to help the baby feed, a heater, and clothing. They were also taken to Gaungzhou Children’s |
Ming’s parents (back),
Ming being held by his
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Update on Happy |
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Happy is enjoying her new chair
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donations. |
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Happy takes a nap (right) |
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QSI Zhuhai Raises Funds for TCH |
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Students, staff and teachers at QSI Zhuhai in China, organized a movie night and bake sale to benefit True
Children’s Home. They also collected needed supplies for the children including diapers, bottles, toys and
clothing. The students hope to visit TCH Dongguan in January 2009. |
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| There are many people working together to make a difference in the lives of children that come to TCH. Each
month we will spotlight one of those individuals as our True Hero. |
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A nurse draws blood |
The True Heroes this month are the medical care coordinators
and caregivers who provide care to children in the
hospital. In Chinese hospitals, a child must have a parents,
guardian or care-giver with them around the clock;
they are responsible for more than just nurturing the child.
This assistant administers medi-cations, breathing treatment,
changes diapers, and accepts the daily hospital bill
which must be paid daily by the Executive Director of
TCH. For children that stay more than a few days, the
caregivers rotate every 3 days. |
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Administering a
breathing treatment |
Pre-surgery nurturing |
A sleeping child gets a treatment |
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Xiang Di and her new family |
Yu Xin and her new family from the U.S. |
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Hello From Max’s Family!
It is hard to believe that Max has already been home with us for 6
months. He turns 2 years old in December and is such a handsome
boy with a beautiful smile. He is happy, healthy, busy, stubborn,
strong-willed, talkative, loves to sing and dance...what more
can I say! He is such a delightful child and fits perfectly in our family.
He has brought so much joy to our family and is quite a
Daddy’s YaYa boy. Max has no problems with his cleft, his hearing
is wonderful, his speech is very clear and he eats very well. He
adores his sisters and vice versa. Max loves to sleep and goes to
bed at 7 pm without a fuss. We can’t thank you, his wonderful
caregivers, doctors and foster mothers enough for the love and
care you gave to Max whilst he was at TCH. We are truly blessed. |
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Hello from Ming Hui,
We have been home for a little over one week. It’s wonderful to
be able to plan our days according to our own needs. Hui has
settled in very well. He is a wonderful boy, we couldn’t have been
luckier! He has adapted to our family life faster than we expected.
Both mummy and daddy can cuddle, comfort, and play
with him. He loves to listen to us talking to him and absorbs all
new information and eats very well. Everything is hunky dory,
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Hello,
We have now had Hao Zhuo with us for three months and he has
been a complete joy! Since we have been home he has been to
the local children’s hospital for evaluation for his cleft lip and palate.
Please tell your staff that our physician (who many think is
the best cleft surgeon in the US) said that Hao Zhuo’s repair is
excellent. Please pass this on to the medical staff that cared for
him. Because his repair was so well done he will not need another
surgery for three more years and it may be the only other
palate surgery he requires. He is in speech therapy twice a week
and now clearly says “no” and “mine.” He is starting to say other
words and his first sentence this week—”see you tomorrow.” He
is such a good little helper also. He likes to help me clean, take
out the trash, and he loves to cook. Santa will be bringing him a
kitchen for Christmas!
Hao Zhuo and Family |
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| Check Out This Blog and TCH Could Receive a Donation |
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| From Kate (teacher and sponsor of several children at TCH): |
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| Blogs are a major resource/support for adoptive and prospective
adoptive parents. Nikki re-designed my travel blog and after
hearing about my trip to TCH, put us on the waiting list.
Nikki is a Canadian Anthropology student who is in the process
of raising money for her humanitarian aid work. Through her
business, Blogs for a Cause, she was able to go to the Dominican |
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money to go to Ethiopia for two weeks in February, and back to
the DR for two months next May and June. Nikki stylizes blogs for $30 each. With the $30 that you pay, you will get a
personalized header, a matching background, a new layout, and 1 free re-do. Of this cost, $25 goes towards funding her
volunteer trips, and $5 goes to a Charity of the Month. From January 1, 2009- February 7th, 2009, TCH is Nikki's Charity
of the Month. She does beautiful work and hopes to make a difference in the lives of many children! For more information,
please visit Blogs for a Cause at: http://madebynikki.blogspot.com/ or email Nikki to place an order: ncochrane3@hotmail.com. |
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| http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apatchina |
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| Adoptive Parents of Alumni of True Children’s Home-China, an online group exclusive to families who have adopted, or
have a referral for, a child who spent time at TCH. We hope to grow into a positive, supportive community that will foster
relationships with the families of TCH’s “brothers and sisters,” while discussing travel, continuing medical care at home
and general China adoption topics. We would also like to find ways to help TCH with fundraising. If you have a picture
of your child on a “boppy pillow”, your child might be a TCH alumni! |
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| http://www.claramilldesigns.com |
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| Order hand-painted necklaces, teardrop or round style, to benefit the children of True Children’s Home. |
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| Children who received care—96 |
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| Surgeries performed—100 |
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| Children transitioned to foster care—52 |
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| Children adopted—37* |
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| *Children have been adopted into families in China, Holland, Spain and the U.S. |
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True Children’s Home relies on donations from individuals, organizations and corporations. One hundred
percent of donated funds goes into one of our four programs: children’s home, medical care, foster care or
community outreach. Donations to TCH are completely tax deductible. All administrative expenses are underwritten
by Alan and Twila True. |
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If you would like more information on how you can help, contact us at info@truechildrenshome.org or visit our
website at www.truechildrenshome.org. |
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Working together we can make a difference in the lives of children…
one child at a time! |
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