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Happy Chinese New Year! |
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TCH celebrated Chinese New Year with the foster care children and their foster mothers. Each foster child
received a red envelope containing lucky money, a new outfit and a bag of goodies. The foster families each
received a bag of rice and a new pair of shoes for the foster mother and foster father. |
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Zhong Hua
Born May 2009 (boy)
Cleft lip and palate |
Zhong Mao
Born November 2009 (boy)
Cleft lip and palate |
Zhong Min
Born August 2009 (girl)
Anal atresia |
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Huan Xin prepares for cleft lip surgery |
Xin Xu after cleft lip surgery |
Ci Cong before cleft lip surgery |
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Gao Shan after spina bifida surgery |
Wen Yu before cleft lip and palate surgery |
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Yang Hua and Zi Wen celebrate their birthdays with
friends in the village. |
Cheng Feng
Foster Care Father - Li Xiao Hua
Foster Care Mother—Li Li Chang
Foster Care Brother (pictured) - Li Wen Xuan
Second time foster parents |
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Westside Baptist Church and Liberty Baptist Church
donated bibs, toys, clothing, diapers, medicine and
formula to TCH. Aaron, Colette and Jim Burns delivered
the donations on behalf of the churches. |
The children investigate the treasures within these
large boxes of toys, DVDs, diapers, towels, puzzles,
feeding supplies and other needed items that
were donated to TCH by DWIC and AMBD. |
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TCH friend, Ella Moreau, brought bibs and towels
to the children. Pictured are twins Hao Yi and
Hao Er in matching holiday bibs. |
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Super “Scrapper”
TCH recently received the note below. Thanks to Valorie
Stackpole for creating these treasures for the children and
their families. You are a True Hero!
“I want to thank you for the picture scrapbook you gave to us
when we adopted Samm. Samm has been struggling with his
speech therapy and has been so discouraged that he does
not sound like his friends. Dick and I sat down with him and
showed him the pictures you took of him when he had his surgery
and explained to him why he has difficulty talking at
times. These pictures were so helpful and now he is so proud to show everyone the pictures of his surgery ‘when they fixed
the hold in my palate.’ Obviously, we treasure these photos,
but they also really helped us explain a difficult thing to him. |
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Lian Lei and her family from China |
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Arianna (Xinche)
I thought there might be some people who would like to see how
Arianna is coping with the snow we have gotten this year, which is
very unusual. We only get 4 inches yearly, and so far have bad
almost 15! Arianna loves to sled, as long as she does not have to
walk in it. She also wants to go All By Herself!! |
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Robby (Gang Gang)
Robby loves to swim!
His 11-year-old sister collected baby items at her
recent birthday party and donated them to True
Children’s Home. |
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Lilah (Xin En)
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We wanted to send an update on how Lilah (Xin En) is doing now
that she has been a part of our family for six months.
Lilah has settled in very well and is an amazing little girl. She is very
social and has loved making many new friends, starting Sunday
school, joining a Mandarin class and getting to know her three brothers
and her older sister (who all love and adore her)! Lilah loves to
color, play with play dough and read books. She is a very smart
little girl and makes us laugh with the things that she comes up with!
Lilah has learned so many new things in the last six months. She
speaks in English all the time and in full sentences. She loves to
sing and dance and dress-up in pretty clothes. She has learned her
colors, shapes, numbers and she is learning to dress herself. She
has adjusted well to our Canadian food and loves to eat!
She also just got glasses. Little pink ones and she is very proud of
them She looks adorable! |
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| Children who received care—122 |
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| Surgeries performed—134 |
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| Children transitioned to foster care—78 |
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| Children adopted—69* |
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| *Children have been adopted into families in China, Canada, Spain, Holland, Denmark, Sweden 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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| Donations can be made by credit card at www.lotusbuds.org; be sure to designate "True Children's
Home." Donations by check should be payable to "Lotus Buds International" with "True Children's Home" written
in the memo section. Checks can be mailed to: True Children's Home, 2052 Alton Parkway, Irvine, CA 92606. |
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| Apatchina Yahoo Group |
| Adoptive Parents of Alumni of True Children’s Home—China |
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| ClaraMillDesigns.com |
| Order hand-painted necklaces to benefit the children of True Children’s Home |
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| Madebynikki.blogspot.com |
| Blogs for a cause donated funds from the January orders to True Children’s Home |
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| Blanketsforbabies.net |
| Providing the gift of blankets to children throughout the world |
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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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