Alliance For Children Foundation

CHINA PROGRAM

Once the needs for food, shelter, and medical care are met, orphanage children face learning and language deficits that result from custodial life. The large number of adopting parents who have traveled to China, many of whom have returned for a second child, have witnessed the inevitable sensory delays associated with mass child care -— no matter how caringly the care is administered.

Donor families see solutions in funding programs that bring foster-care mothers to touch, soothe, and talk to babies and young children while they are eating to comfort them and seed the development of language and empathy. They feel committed to making medical care, including vaccinations to prevent Hepatitis B, available to all children with this and other illnesses. They find solutions in developing libraries and music rooms so that children are exposed to one-on-one storytelling and personal quiet time to supplement their experiences of group singing, dancing, and television. Some donors seek to fund bold new pilot programs designed to change institutionalized living conditions into family-like living situations where there is confidence that the administration is excellent and the likelihood of success great.

Please browse through our China orphanage projects on this web site to learn about our achievements to date and our projects under development.

The China Program is the most utilized within the Agency's client base of adoptive parents and enjoys the largest community of donors. There is a shared understanding among adoptive parents within this community that the number of abandoned children in China will mean that many will remain in custodial care until they are adults. There is also a growing knowledge that orphanages in China present various kinds of needs that will remain unmet without outside help.

In certain places -- such as the provinces of Gansu, Shaanxi, and some parts of Jiangxi, Hunan, and Hubei -- orphanages are still lacking some of the necessities of life, such as clean water, baby formula, bedding, and basic medical care. Many other orphanages lack adequate rehabilitation facilities for their resident special needs orphans. And many orphanages have teenagers who badly need educational support.

	AIDS Orphan Salvation Association of Fuyang Fuyang County is a poor area in the northwestern corner of Anhui province bordering on Henan. The central Chinese government has recently designated Fuyang as one of several hard-hit though previously neglected AIDS areas. In Fuyang we are supporting the work of the AIDS Orphan Salvation Association of Fuyang (AOS), a small, fully registered Chinese non-profit non-governmental organization that provides a variety of important support services for children whose parents have been struck by AIDS. AOS is currently supporting over 200 children from AIDS-affected families.

	Anqing Children's Welfare Institute

	Bobai Social Welfare Institute

	Hefei Children's Welfare Institute Hefei is the capital city of Anhui province. Hefei Children's Welfare Institute is located in the western part of the city. It has dormitories and classrooms for the younger children, an apartment building for teenagers, and the biggest rehabilitation center for special needs children in Anhui province. A great deal of the children in the Institute are disabled.

	Hengshan Social Welfare Institute

	Huainan Social Welfare Institute

	Huanggang Children's Welfare Institute

	Huangshi Social Welfare Institute

	Jingmen Children's Welfare Institute

	Laibin Xingbin District Social Welfare Institute

	Lanzhou Children's Welfare Institute Lanzhou is the capital city of Gansu province, one of the most arid provinces in China. Lanzhou Children's Welfare Institute is in the suburbs of the city, located on a small hill. The orphanage doesn't have fax machines, air-conditions or computers. Their rehab center was funded with aid from the United Nations Children's Fund. There are currently about 200 children in the orphanage. All of them are under the Institute's care. Ninety % of the children are disabled mentally or physically.

	Leping Children's Welfare Institute

	Linchuan Children's Welfare Institute

	Ma'anshan Children's Welfare Institute Ma'anshan is a small city in Anhui province. Ma'anshan Children's Welfare Institute is in the northeastern part of the city. It has built a sisterly relationship with the Alliance for Children. At this time there are less than 20 children who are infected with Hepatitis B in the orphanage. They include little children and teenagers. All of these children are in a group care project aided by the Alliance.

	Multiple Orphanages

	Nanchang Children's Welfare Institute Nanchang is the capital city of Jiangxi province. Nanchang Children's Welfare Institute is a part of the Nanchang Social Welfare Institute. It includes a rehabilitation center for special needs children and an elementary school. There are currently 400 children in the Institute. 300 of them are of school age. Nanchang Children's Welfare Institute has become the largest and the most complete orphanage in Jiangxi Province.

	Shangao Children's Welfare Institute

	Shanghai Children's Welfare Institute

	Suzhou Children's Welfare Institute

	Wuhan Children's Welfare Institute Wuhan is the capital city of Hubei province. Wuhan Children's Welfare Institute is on the south bank of the Changjiang River. The predecessor of the Institute is a foundling set up in 1928. After 1951, the Wuhan Government took over and gave the welfare institute its current name. The Institute has been awarded the title of "Model Welfare Institute" by the government of the province.

	Wuhu Children's Welfare Institute

	Wuzhou Social Welfare Institute Wuzhou Social Welfare Institute was founded in 1946. It is located in the east of Guangxi Province, and it borders Guangdong Province. Wuzhou Social Welfare Institute has two sectors, one for the homeless elderly and the other for orphaned children. Currently the children's sector has over 50 orphans; most of them are children with special needs.

	XiangTan Social Welfare Institute

	Yangxin Children's Welfare Institute Yangxin is one of the poor counties in the southeast part of Hubei province. Yangxin Children's Welfare Institute is a new institute set up in 1997. There are currently 56 children in the orphanage. Most of them are fostered by families in the county. Eighteen children are of school age and living in the institute.

	Yingtan Children's Welfare Institute

	Yiyang Children's Welfare Institute

	Yizhou Social Welfare Institute

	Yuanling Children's Welfare Institute

	Yulin Social Welfare Institute Established in 1951, the Yulin Social Welfare Institute is located in Yulin City, southeast of Guangxi Province in south China. Five Alliance for Children families adopted from Yulin in Feb. 2005, and the AFC Foundation has provided medical support to a number of Yulin orphans since that time. In Aug. 2006 the AFC Foundation signed a contract with the Yulin Social Welfare Institute for a joint venture to create a new foster care program for infants, and in April 2008, the Foundation completed a project to open Ciccolo Sunbeam Village foster care center on the orphanage campus for children with disabilities.

	Yuling Children's Welfare Institute Yuling is a city located in the north of Shanxi province. It lies near a desert, and there is a severe shortage of water. The weather is very dry and windy, with sand blowing everywhere. Yuling orphanage is in a two-storied building with a little courtyard. There is only one tap water pipe in the building. There are about 20 rooms in the building and less than 200 children in the orphanage. All the school-age children live in the orphanage because their schools are nearby. All the babies are fostered in families around the city. This Institute needs many facilities that it cannot afford, such as cribs, walking chairs, refrigerators, and other furniture, and funds for medical expenses and care of the disabled children.

	Zhanjiang City Social and Children's Welfare Institute

	Zhuzhou Children's Welfare Institute