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TCH Joins with Lotus Buds International |
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| True Children’s home is excited to announce our affiliation with Lotus Buds International, a non-profit 501c3 organization
working in China to promote and support adoption among Chinese families. While True Children’s Home and Lotus
Buds International remain separate entities, we are both committed to making a difference in the lives of orphans in
China. |
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| With this new partnership we have the ability to accept donations by credit card. Visit www.truechildrenshome.org and
click on the “Donate” link. Your donation will be processed through Pay Pal and your credit card statement will reflect
“Lotus Buds International”, however your donation will be credited to True Children’s Home. Donations can also be
made by check, payable to “Lotus Buds International,” with “True Children’s Home” written in the memo section. Donations
can be mailed to: True Children’s Home, 2052 Alton Parkway, Irvine, CA 92606. |
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| All donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. You will receive a donation statement from Lotus Buds
International at year-end. Please visit www.lotusbuds.org to see the fine works of this organization. |
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Please note that the True News is moving to a bi-monthly publishing schedule starting with this issue. |
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Hai Ling |
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Ao Jiang |
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Born March 2009 (girl)
Club Feet |
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Born May 2009 (girl)
Cleft lip and palate |
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Born December 2008 (girl)
Cleft lip and palate |
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Ao Jing |
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Ai Dao |
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Hao Yi (left) and Hao Er (right) |
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Born November 2008 (girl)
Cleft lip and palate |
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Born February 2006 (boy)
Left eyeball bulging, no right eyeball |
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Born July 2009 (both girls)
Both have cleft lip and palate |
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Jing Lei after heart surgery.
Unfortunately, she had to return
to the operating room and spent
additional time in ICU |
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Yu Zhu before anal atresia surgery |
Hai Biao prepares for
testicular fixation surgery |
Wen Ai sleeps after
ureterovesical implantation |
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Ai Dao after enucieation surgery (left eye) |
En Yong prepares for cleft lip
and palate surgery |
Ao Jing prepares for cleft lip and palate surgery |
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Hong Bing
Foster Care Father-Ou Yang Er You
Foster Care Mother-Jiang Bai Jio
Second time foster parents |
Zi Wen
Foster Care Father-Zhuo Yan Hui
Foster Care Mother-Chen Zhi Mei
First time foster parents |
Hui Ying
Foster Care Father — Li Guan Fu
Foster Care Mother — Li Shui Jiao
First time foster parents |
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Yu Xiong
Foster Care Father-Zhong Chun Ziang
Foster Care Mother-Yin Miao Fang
Second time foster parents |
Ao Huan
Foster Care Father—Li Yu Wen
Foster Care Mother—Huang Yu Mei
First time foster parents |
Wen Ai
Foster Care Father-Li Yun Guang
Foster Care Mother-Li Feng Ping
First time foster parents |
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| Thank you Paul Curtis of Skechers for donating more than 125 pairs of children’s and adult shoes. Friends Jan, Kate, and
Caroline (left) sorted the shoes for distribution to orphans (right) at a recent Summer Camp sponsored by Global Outreach. |
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Friends from South America visited TCH
and performed for the children-both in
home care and in foster care. |
Friend and volunteer,
Deanna, visited with the
children |
Caroline, friend of TCH, brought
darling outfits for the children |
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Friends and Family Unite to Make a Difference! |
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A generous staff at IC Intracom, friends, and family of Rachel Chou, have opened their hearts and all joined
together, locally and throughout the world to sponsor five children’s surgeries. Recently this group committed to sponsor
cleft lip and palate surgery for the twins. You are True Heroes! |
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Hai Rong and his parents from Holland |
Ai Zhen and her family from the US |
Xiao Yuan and her family from the US |
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Hau Yi (right) and her family from Canada |
Xin Heng and her family from the US |
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Eliana (Guo) enjoys time in the water and with her family |
Two friends from TCH, Daniel (Jian) and
Max (Zhi) were reunited at China Camp |
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Friends,
We are quickly approaching the one year anniversary of becoming a family. It has been a
challenging year, but also the best year of our lives.
Samm (Hao Zhou) is growing (finally), and his personality has emerged—and let me tell
you, he is one “in-charge” little guy. Our home is filled with plenty of silli-ness and laughter.
His speech is coming along very slowly, but we are now able to understand at least some
of what he says. His hearing aides have helped to improve his speech, but we know this
will be a long road to develop his speech and catch him up with his peers. He will start
school again in a few weeks, which he is very excited about. Samm is truly the joy of our
lives, and we cannot imagine our lives without him.
Once again, we cannot thank you and your staff enough for the amazing care and love
Samm received while at TCH. We just went for a follow-up appointment for his cleft lip
and palate, and our surgeon again remarked on how well his palate looked. He said that
Samm had a “very fine surgeon” in China.
Sincerely,
- Samm and family |
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Dear Friends,
I thought I would let you know that Mao Xinche, Adrianna, is doing well.
She is a happy little girl who loves to play jokes on her brothers (like offering
them a bite of something only to pull it back laughing when they try to
take a bite.)
- Adrianna and Family |
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Friends,
It seems like it has already been months, but we are coming up to our two month anniversary
of having our beautiful Huan with us. She is a hilarious little girl that can’t get enough of mimicking
her jiejie and acting like the family jester. She does the silliest things to make us
laugh.
We had her first cardio appointment two weeks ago and they did the EKG, Echo, blood, sat,
etc. The doctor said she wanted to do the surgery soon based on her SATs-77. Then we
had her catherization on Tuesday—they were impressed with the surgery that was completed
in China and actually were a little surprised that part of the Fontan was actually completed
during the initial surgery. (I have heard this before and wonder if the Chinese and
American protocols are different for the ASD.) Huan came though all the tests like a trouper
and really didn’t complain about much—of course when it was time to leave the hospital she
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| GOGOGOGOGOGOGO—Home Momma!! So we got out of there. Of course in a few weeks when we were there for her Fontan and it will be a 7—10 day stay, I’m sure she’ll be ready to get out of
there even quicker. The doctors feel that she is an ideal candidate for her next surgery and they have every confidence
that she will recover quickly. |
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| She is speaking a ton at home—little sentences—usually requesting food or beverages. She gives us hugs and kisses
all the time now and she is still just the most appreciative child I have ever met—if we give her a candy, apple or shoes
or a toy—she just lights up and says “hank ee.” She loves to sing the ABCs and is really quite good at English names—
even now and then a Chinese word slips in and we try to look it up and usually it ‘s pretty close to what we believe it to
be. We have a Chinese channel on our cable and sometimes when we put it on she gets interested, but if anyone
speaks in Mandarin to her she wants nothing to do with it. Hopefully that will change over time. |
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| Huan loves swimming in our lake and she can’t get enough time on our boat. She embraces all of the new experiences
that come her way and she really doesn’t seem scared of anything anymore...such an amazing girl. |
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| Take care, |
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| - Huan and her family |
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| Children who received care—109 |
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| Surgeries performed—117 |
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| Children transitioned to foster care—69 |
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| Children adopted—54* |
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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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| 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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