Group care for children with chronic Hepatitis B

A medical advisory team has been formed to establish health monitoring procedures and to improve the living and nutrition conditions of children infected with chronic Hepatitis B. New housing and nutritional supplements were provided to the orphans.

In 2001, we will focus on providing medical or alternative medical treatment to each infected child, and on strengthening the work of the Alliance's U.S. Doctors' Consultation Team specially organized for this project.

Playground for special needs children

Nanchang Welfare Institute has over 100 special needs children who do not have an outdoor playground. This project will fund a playground, including the costs of ground preparation, construction, running track, and outdoor rehabilitation equipment.

The area of the playground will be about 25,000 square feet.

Rehabilitation center

A set of Coordination Training Facilities were purchased for use by disabled children in a new rehabilitation center at the Welfare Institute. We hope this project will serve as a model for other orphanages to follow.

Rehabilitation center

A set of Coordination Training Facilities were purchased for use by disabled children in a new rehabilitation center at the Welfare Institute. We hope this project will serve as a model for other orphanages to follow.

Additional goals: the Hefei Rehabilitation Center will also convert a common room into a Sense Integration Training Room (cost $12,000). This too will serve as a model for other orphanages to follow.

Vitamin Supplement Project

The Deputy Minister of Health Administration of the Moscow Region has requested help in subsidizing vitamins for 700 children in 8 orphanages. The cost is 34 dollars per year per child.

The Russian orphanages (baby homes) included in this project are Krasnopolyanskiy, Rasotguevskiy, Ramenskiy, Podolskiy, Orekhovo-Zuyevskiy, Fryazinskiy, Kolomenskiy, and Lyuberetskiy Dom Rebionka.

AIDS Orphan Project

Below are pictures of children from AIDS-affected families in Fuyang taken by AFC project workers in July 2004. These children are being supported in various ways by the Fuyang AIDS Orphan Salvation Association with the help of AFC's AIDS Orphan Project.

This fund will help Chinese orphans who are left homeless or destitute because one or both parents have died from AIDS, and provide medical and educational support and foster care for the orphans, some of whom have been infected with HIV themselves.

Maternal Health Project

The Foundation helps provide prenatal medical care, nutritional supplements and vitamins, and parenting skills to birthmothers seeking the support of the Casa Cuna orphanage in Quito.

These women are poverty-stricken, malnourished, unskilled, and may be the victims of rape or domestic abuse. Some are teenagers or unable to support their pregnancies because they have other children.

Maternal Health Project

The Foundation helps provide prenatal medical care, nutritional supplements and vitamins, and parenting skills to birthmothers seeking the support of the Children's Rehabilitative and Adoption Center in Bogota.

These women are poverty-stricken, malnourished, unskilled, and may be the victims of rape or domestic abuse. Some are teenagers or unable to support their pregnancies because they have other children.

Medical and Wellness Care Project

The Foundation seeks to provide at-risk, sick, and disabled children at Casa Cuna orphanage with funds for preventive, medical, and surgical care.

We also seek to provide special needs treatment for children at the orphanage.

Medical and Wellness Care Project

The Foundation seeks to provide at-risk, sick, and disabled children at the Children's Rehabilitative and Adoption Center in Bogota with funds for preventive, medical, and surgical care.

We also seek to provide special needs treatment to children at CRAN.

Wheelchairs for school age children

Wheelchairs were provided for special needs children so that they could attend school.

Surgery for cleft lip and palate

Funds were provided so that two young children at Ma'anshan Welfare Institute could undergo surgery for cleft lip and palate. The surgery was very successful!

Surgery for cleft lip and palate

Funds were provided so that two children at Wuhu Welfare Institute could undergo surgery for cleft lip and palate. The surgery was very successful!

Electronic disinfectant cupboards

Two electronic disinfectant cupboards were purchased for Wuhu Welfare Institute, to improve sanitation and health conditions for the children.

Heart Surgery

Donated funds were used so that this little 4-year old girl, Yang Yuan Shuang, could undergo heart surgery in the summer of 2002.

Heart Surgery

Little Ma Chen Mei was able to receive heart surgery thanks to AFC Foundation donations.

Drinking water well

Lanzhou has a serious water shortage. The Welfare Institute does not have access to city water; everyday it must buy and transport water. A deep water well was drilled in order to improve the childrens' hygiene and health.

We drilled a deep drinking well about 500 feet deep to reach water underground. The cost of drilling was $18,800. The equipment cost $12,500.

Rehabilitation center

A rehabilitation center was established so that disabled children at this orphanage could receive physical therapy.

Eye Surgery

A donation made by the Hadsell family was used to provide glasses and a corrective operation for extropia of the eye for 15-year old Huang Linlin at the Yangxin Children's Welfare Institute.

Hepatitis B Vaccination

Hepatitis B vaccine was purchased for inoculations against the disease for 85 children and 15 caregivers at Krasnopolyanskiy Dom Rebionka (Baby Home).

Medical Treatment

The Foundation provided funds for complex medical treatment, including surgeries, and follow-up care for orphans in Colombia.

Heart Surgery

The AFC Foundation sponsored heart surgery for an orphan named Zhao Bai Xue on Sept 25, 2001.

Brain Surgery

The AFC Foundation sponsored brain surgery for an orphan named Yuling on Sept 22, 2001.

Foot Surgery

The AFC Foundation funded a surgery on Tao Yang's feet and legs.

Tumor Surgery

The AFC Foundation funded a surgery to remove a blood vessel tumor from behind this child's right ear.

Urgent Measles Relief Fund

In April 2004, the Zhuzhou Children's Welfare Institute suffered a serious measles outbreak. In an orphanage setting measles is especially dangerous and the mortality rate is high.

This fund was created to provide immediate support to the orphanage and then support through the Hunan Provincial Office. Thank you to all who donated!

Rehabilitation room

Donated funds were used to purchase equipment for the training and rehabilitation of disabled children. This project is modeled after similar projects successfully completed in Hefei and Shanghai.

Glaucoma Operation

This beautiful child, Peng Jun Xing, received an operation for his glaucoma.

Surgery for cleft lip and palate

Funds were provided so that two young children at this welfare institute could undergo surgery for cleft lip and palate. The surgeries were very successful!

Prosthetic Leg

Funds were provided so that this little girl, Guo Lige, could receive a prosthetic leg.

Surgery for congenital condition

Funds were donated so that little Yang Xing Jia could receive surgery at the Wuhan Children's Hospital to correct a congenital condition of being born with a closed anus.

Surgery for lymph node and kidney problems

Funds were donated so that Yuan Xi Hua could receive surgery for lymph node and kidney problems.

Surgery for Special Needs Orphans

The AFC Foundation was able to provide surgery and medical support for several special needs orphans at Wuhu Orphanage through the generous donations of the Wolf family.

Surgery for cleft lip and palate

The AFC Foundation provided funds so that little Du Guo Qing could undergo surgery for his cleft lip and palate.

Rehabilitation center

Donated funds will be used to purchase Coordination Training Facilities for the training and rehabilitation of disabled children. This project is modeled after similar projects successfully completed in Hefei and Shanghai.

Hepatitis B Vaccination

This project impacts 462 children and 448 staff members at 5 orphanages. With the Hepatitis B vaccination, these individuals can live free from the worry of contracting this deadly disease.

The Russian orphanages (baby homes) included in this project are Fryazinskiy, Kolomenskiy, Lyuberetskiy, Orekhovo-Zuyevskiy, and Podolskiy Dom Rebionka.

Rehabilitation Center

The AFC Foundation is starting a new project at the Zhuzhou Children's Welfare Institute, in Hunan Province, China, following our recent Urgent Measles Relief Fund there in April of 2004.

Two of our representatives, Yunfen Shih and Yi Wang, visited the Zhuzhou orphanage in early June 2004, where they discussed the creation of a new rehab center to help special needs children. Details will be posted as this project gets underway.

Treatment for Special Needs Children

We are collecting donations to give to the Ministry of Civil Affairs' Tomorrow Plan, which will provide surgical and rehabilitation treatment to special needs children at the Huainan Social Welfare Institute in Anhui province.

The use of the donations will be monitored by the Administrative Office of TP, located in the same building as the CCAA, and headed by the former deputy director of the CCAA Matching Room, Ms. Tie Ling. We'll post follow-up information here.

Tomorrow Plan Donation

The Tomorrow Plan was created in 2004 by the China Ministry of Civil Affairs to provide surgeries and rehabilitation to all handicapped children in social welfare institutions throughout China within 3 years. Approx. 30,000 orphans will be helped.

Alliance For Children donated $10,500 in June, 2005. See the Ministry of Civil Affairs web site for more information on this program: http://www.china-ccaa.org/mtjh/mtjh-english.html We’ll post feedback from orphanages here as it becomes available.