Families raising children with disabilities in China face very real hopelessness. They are desperate for help, for encouragement, and for community. That’s why this year’s Hope In Every Home Campaign is so important…
After 3 years away, I wasn’t sure what to expect during my trip back to China. I founded Hope Station in 2012, and lived in China from 2015-20. We served children with disabilities in orphanages, then transitioned to serve children with disabilities and their families in 2019. When I left…
We stopped focusing on orphan care. It might sound harsh, but it’s important. A child with special needs in China is at risk of becoming an orphan at any moment. Even the best-intentioned parents could find themselves abandoning their child due to extreme financial, social, or family pressures. One mother…
“Every time the dance teacher came to give JunJie a dance lesson, he would be surrounded by his neighbors,” Family Strengthening Program Manager Erica Xu shares. “At the beginning, everyone was curious about whether the child could actually dance. Or whether the teacher was willing to teach someone with Down…
“Look! I got flowers! I got flowers!” One mother from our Family Strengthening Program went around her neighborhood waving her flowers and shouting to all her neighbors with pride. We visited each local family in our Family Strengthening Program this past week to bring flowers to each mother for Mother’s…
Hi everyone, It’s Rebekah here. I can’t express how heavily you all have been on my heart these days. No matter where you are in the world, the pandemic has affected you in some way. It can feel so scary to watch the numbers rise as the virus…
The world is abuzz with news the corona virus, officially known as COVID-19. It all started in January in Wuhan, China, which is about 800 miles from the Hope Station headquarters in Chengdu. While the virus is subsiding, life in China is far from normal. Our Sichuan province, home to…
