Update April 2006
Dear Friends and Supporters,
This month has been a busy one for surgeries and medical problems. We have expanded the Shunyi base in Beijing from 12 beds to 38 beds over the past 3 years and it is at a point that we will not be able expand any more than this. In Shunyi, including the children in the Outreach Program , we currently care for 50 children.
Our “waiting list” is down to 5 children. We have been informed of the possible adoption of 2 of our kids sometime this year and we wait expectantly for the families to come and collect their children.Our hope now is to see if doors open in the poorer provinces to allow HFH to expand the work where children are most in need.
1) Foster Home Shunyi, Beijing ( 26 beds)
The babies
The following children have had surgery this month
1)) Fu Zi Xiu ( girl, 1 month, myelomeningocele) in China ( Suzhou)
2) Fu Zi Jiang (boy, 1 month, myelomeningocele) in China. ( Beijing) He is currently very ill with pneumonia.
3) Ling Wan Fen (boy, 4 months, myelomeningocele,) in China ( Suzhou)
4) Fu Hai Sheng (boy, 4 months, hernia) in China ( Suzhou)
5) Dang Xing Yang (boy, 8 months, hernia) in China ( Suzhou)
6) Dang Fu Xing ( boy, Complex heart disease ) in Singapore
7) Dang Shan Qiang (boy, 3 years, Complex heart disease) in Singapore
8) Fu Tian Suo ( boy, 15 months, Epispadius) in Hong Kong
9) Fu Jin Jin (girl, 8 months, hydrocephalus with several complications). Still in hospital in Suzhou
10) Fu Hai Xing ( boy, 5 months Imperforated anus with complications) investigated in Suzhou in preparation for surgery at a later date.
The new children with clubbed feet have begun their weekly serial casting
1) Lu Guo Ru (boy 4 months, arthrogryposis),
2) Li Lian (girl, 2 months, clubbed feet)
3) Shan Le Zhong (boy,6 months)
2) Love Without Boundaries Shunyi Outreach Foster Program. ( currently 12 children with possible maximum of 20)
The children here are well and are being monitored regularly
3) HFH Special Care Unit, Jiaozuo, Henan Province: ( 12 beds)
We have had 2 deaths here this month, Oliver Fu Zi Guo( Congenital heart disease, Complex chromosomal Syndrome) ) and Fu Gao Shan.( severe cloacal exstrophy) died peacefully. We also had 2 admissions and our beds are full again.
Volunteers.
Dr Lim and his wife (a nurse) from Australia volunteered here and their help was very much appreciated. Gemma R. is back with us and she is currently running the unit
4) LWB Special Care Unit ( 12 beds)
We have dubbed this wing the Bouncing Bunnies wing (the other 2 wings are the “ Nemo” and “Pooh Bear” wings) and a local artist has been in to paint Peter Rabbit murals on the walls. The unit is running well and Physiotherapy volunteer Bill C. from the US has done a great job with the PT assessments and getting equipment. This is still an on going process but the kids and nannies are settled.
5) HFH Special Care Unit, Luoyang, Henan Province: ( 45 beds)
We will travel there in the first week of May to work out the details of renovating and running this unit
Our Most Sincere Thanks To;
1)
ISB students again this month, this time for supplying and planting flowers in our front garden2)
GE team for supplying and planting trees and shrubs around the new LWB wing.3)
The BFG for helping to clean the new wing4)
Lysa. J who flew all the way from the US to escort and care for Spencer Sam Fu Tian Suo during his surgery in Hong Kong.5) We thank Primavera for their continued annual support and all those who quietly supply funds for the needs of the children.
Our Needs:
1)
Please pray for Fu Jin Jin and Fu Zi Jiang as they fight infections that could take their lives and for Dang Shang Qiang and Dang Fu Xing who are in Singapore having difficult, life saving heart surgery and for their safe return to China.
Fu Jin Jin Dang Fu Xing Dang Shang Qiang Fu Zi Jiang
2) We have 3 more children currently scheduled to have surgery in Hong Kong. We still need either a volunteer with foreign passports willing to take a child and care for him in Hong Kong, while he undergoes surgery. All expenses paid.
OR…
Families in Hong Kong who would be willing to foster a child short term (2 -3 months) Please contact Joyce joyce@hopefosterhome.com if you know of anyone who can help.
With gratitude
Joyce and Robin Hill
“Love anything and your heart will possibly be broken. If you want to keep it intact… give it to no one. Wrap it carefully with hobbies, and… luxuries…. But in that place of dark, motionless, airless safety… it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, and irredeemable”
C.S. Lewis
Director
Hope Foster Home
Beijing, China
www.hopefosterhome.com
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