OUR CHILDREN'S DAY CHALLENGE...
BECOME A SOMEBODY LOVES ME SPONSOR
Every year when June 1 rolls around, I think about all the children who know, because of the work we do, that somebody loves them. Not just on Children’s Day, China’s official day to celebrate her children. Every day.
Just a few days ago, we welcomed 29 medically fragile babies into our Half the Sky family at our new China Care Home in Beijing. Ting and KangPing andLiuFang have complex heart conditions.
ZiMing was born premature with multiple complications. Tao has cancer in both her eyes.JianBing was given up for hospice but continues to fight. TongTong and Lan have had their surgeries and need a few months to recuperate.
They all have lost their families. They are all little fighters…struggling to stay alive. They all need somebody to love them >>>
THE CHINA CARE PROGRAM - WATCH IT BEGIN!
Experience the first days of Half the Sky's newest
program in this photo story: This spring, Half the Sky was offered an extraordinary opportunity to do something for China’s most fragile children - babies who might otherwise not survive >>>.
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT HALF THE SKY —
August, 2009 - Blue Sky Model Center, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia
August, 2009 - Blue Sky Model Center, Urumuqi, Xinjiang
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By the end of 2009, we hope to upgrade our HTS Children's Centers in Haikou, Hainan; Chengdu, Sichuan and Chongqing. If we succeed, we will then have 12 HTS Blue Sky Model Centers, 33 HTS Children's Centers, and be helping orphaned children in 43 cities across China know what it feels like to be loved.
HTS NOW REGISTERED IN UK AND NETHERLANDS
Great news for our friends in the UK and in the Netherlands! Now you can receive tax benefits for contributing to Half the Sky.
Half the Sky Foundation (UK) Limited - #1127541 - tax exempt status pending
Half the Sky Foundation [ANBI]
- Donate through HTS in the US
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CAREER AND VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AT HTS
Children’s Day, Father’s Day and Exciting Days in Beijing (May 28, 2009)
Mother’s Day is coming! (April 10, 2009)
Happy Spring! (April 06, 2009)
ZiMing was almost ten months old and weighed less than nine pounds when he moved with his 
25 China Care “brothers and sisters” into our new China Care Home.
This seemingly frail little boy is awaiting heart and hernia surgery, the latest in a long line of medical treatments for an infant born with serious birth defects. His caregivers believe that when ZiMing receives those surgeries he will finally be on his way to better health:
“He is the cutest and strongest baby!” boasts one of his doting nannies: “He never stops fighting even after all he has been through.” But his path has not been an easy one.
ZiMing arrived in this world when Beijing was in a frenzy preparing to host the 2008 Summer Olympics. He was born in Shanxi province, far to the southwest of all the commotion, with anal atresia, a condition in which the opening of the anus is absent or obstructed. This is a dangerous condition, but one that can be corrected quite easily with surgery if it is treated right away. Unfortunately, ZiMing did not arrive at the local orphanage until eight days after his birth. By then his belly had become extremely swollen and his breathing, a symptom of his heart condition, too fast.
The local hospital gave ZiMing a colostomy to temporarily deal with his condition, but the surgery was not successful. China Care took ZiMing in when he weighed less than 4 ½ pounds, and transferred him to Beijing to receive care from the most experienced doctors >>>
