Changchun Center Update
By: Hannah and Chelsea
June 1st - International Children's Day
Every day is a day for children but June 1st is a very special day for the children in China. It is their yearly holiday! This is also a very big event for the Changchun Center. On this day, the people from the local community visited the Center. They brought their love and also warm blankets for the kids as gifts. Also, Hannah took dumplings, boxes of food, and toys for the children. Four University students also visited the children and everyone had a great time.
Tang RenYi and Dang LiFei are Heading Home!!
Tang RenYi, who has lived in the center since July 2006, left Changchun with Hua XiaoMing on June 4th to go back to their orphanage for passport photos in preparation for their adoptive families' arrivals. On June 7 Tang RenYi met her mama and two sisters.
Dang LiFei came from YangQuan SWI of Shanxi Province on July 4, 2006, the first day the Changchun Center opened. When Chelsea met him and Lu Qi at the Changchun Railway Station he was a little boy who could not walk and his eyes were shocked by everything he saw. He was very easy to cry and scared when you would try to make him stand. By the time he left on July 2 he was a little man!
Fu WenBo Moves to the Changchun Center
Fu WenBo has lived at the Siping Center since 2004 and grew up with us there. He is a very talkative boy! He came to the Changchun Center because the Siping Center did not have enough space for him to run around and all the nannies were busy preparing for the Siping Center's move to new quarters. He will go back to Siping after the move is completed
Some of the Kids at the Changchun Center
Dang KangYang - She has shown the greatest change of all the children. She is walking more and much more steadily now and can almost walk everywhere on her own. She has also made great progress in her language. Now she can say simple sentences with two or three words.
Dang LuQi - Her fine motor skills have improved greatly since being at the Center. She is skillful at making handicrafts. Here she is making a new craft project.
Dang Xin Hui - She has memorized several more Tang poems. Her fine motor skills have improved and she is now more open to strangers. She will often offer to sing a song to others.
Dang XiaoLing - She has been at the Center for two months and is more open now. She is a very nice girl that cares for others and is the best "little student" in the group. She loves painting and is very careful to stay within the lines. XiaoLing likes to have her photo taken.
Dang GuiJing - She can eat many different kinds of foods. She also likes to sit and play on her own. On July 3rd she had her last cast applied and it was a very hard day for her. She cried a lot on July 4, so we had the the doctor check her cast again and he made some adjustments. Now she is getting better each day.
Dang LiFei - We will all miss Dang LiFei at the Center but we know he is going to join his parents and will have a loving home. That is our goal for all these children.
updates from Hannah and Chelsea about our two foster care centers in China. Hannah is our China Program Director and Chelsea is her assistant. Both are Chinese and live in Changchun, China. They are due much of the credit for the success of our centers. The wonderful care these children receive is because of the love and dedication of the nannies at both of the centers. These wonderful ladies care for those little ones as if they were their own and it shows in the smiling faces of the children. We hope you will take time to read about the centers and the children who make them their home. 
Hannah with TianTian who suffers from hydrocephalus.
