Deyang's Precious Orphans Receive Aid, Mianyang Medicines Delivered for Soldiers

Baby Xiao Qin is on her way to Beijing and Children's Hope International's foster home #2, run by Angel Moms. (Lily, who has been traveling with me, is the head of Angel Moms.) Amidst the chaos, I was able to give Xiao Qin a peaceful moment this morning.


We delivered the supplies the Guangzhou Moms brought Sunday to the Deyang Orphanage. Director Wu is delighted to see us back. I told her I received a request from one of my blog readers to come and see one baby here. The little boy has an American family coming for his adoption and they are so worried. I took the picture of this boy and another boy the director knows is assigned to a family already. For privacy reasons, I will not say which is which. I am sure the families will recognize their little ones. My best wishes to you!




The children at Deyang orphanage are great. On the back wall there are pictures of all the children adopted by foreign families. Director Wu remembers every one of them. She has been working here since 1998 before the current building was built. Post-quake this building is now dangerous to live; they will need to build a new steadier building in the future.



Two shipments arrived today from Beijing, after seeing off Lily and baby Xiaoqin, I stayed at the airport to meet both groups arriving at 8 and 9pm. The volunteer driver delivered the Babytree donor supplies to their van and are scheduled to take more to Deyang orphanage. The rest of the supplies were purchased by Angel moms in Beijing and scheduled to ship to Mianyang tonight. Five boxes of baby items and medicines from these shipments will be for the Wenchuan orphanage.

Below are the supplies we sent to Mianyang tonight, including 1,000 bags of Chinese medicines, Angel Mom Xiaowei brought for the soldiers to prevent the spread of disease while in the front lines of the disaster area.


Here I am in our makeshift office; last night we slept on the grass and some of us in cars.