Why We Stopped Doing Orphan Care

XiaoHang at home

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…

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Dance Lessons for JunJie

“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…

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Mother’s Day 2020

“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…

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COVID19 Update {There is HOPE!}

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…

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How We Are Surviving the CoronaVirus

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…

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