Relief Bags Brighten the Summer Months for 1,000 Earthquake Children

Children's Hope cooperated with Dandelion, the charity organization of US Ambassdor's wife Sarah Randt, to donate 1000 summer relief bags to earthquake victims in Sichuan. These photos below are from August 29th when the bags arrived at the Xiaoba County Settlement Centers. The staff at Hope Center - Xiaoba helped distribute the summer bags to over 800 families. Inside the bags were two single bed sheets, toiletries, Tiger bond, medicine, and more. The families receiving the bags told us they were in desperate need and will use all of these items.

The trucks arriving.
The children run for their own bag.
All hands help with unloading.
Four of the 800 recipients in Xiaoba who received summer relief.
See full information on the Summer Relief Bag project by clicking here.

Yongan's Hope Center Receives Medical Care

On July 25th, I visited a very special clinic, a place where 90 new babies were born since May 12th. This maternity hospital delivery room is located in a temple; the patients' rooms are in tents.

The first baby born here was on the night of the earthquake, May 12th. The doctor used a flashlight and a monk's bed for delivery of the baby. Children's Hope has already received a donation from Dandelion group, to purchase the much needed delivery table and proper lighting.

The baby in this picture was born on the morning of July 26th, three hours prior to this picture being taken.
On July 26th, two ER doctors from Beijing United Hospital, Joe and Marty, visited Yongan Hope Center to check on the Center's ill children. The little girl in the picture is 4 years old and is one of the 4 children to survive in her daycare class of 20 students. She suffered a minor head injury and now has continued headaches.


Dr. Joe and I with the children of Yongan.

Good Housekeeping Partnership to Bring Formula and More with Celebrity Help

Good Housekeeping - China received donations from over 20 celebrities to aid the children of Sichuan in the weeks post-5.12 Quake. The celebrity donations in large part bought formula for the infants and the magazine had been looking for an organization to help them with distribution. During an interview last month, Goodd Housekeeping found that help in me and Children's Hope was able to be a part of this work.


This month I visited the US and our St. Louis office. I shortened the trip to return to be part of the Good Housekeeping event. We participated in a press conference on July 22nd, flew to Chengdu on July 23rd, and on July 24th, Children's Hope organized a visit for Wenghong, a well known HK movie star, and four other celebrities (ChenMing, SunLi, LiuZi and Almen Wang(HK)) to visit Mianyang and Deyang orphanges and a local school.


Besides formula, the celebrities donated diapers, food, and additional supplies. Three of the four stars told me they would like to sponsor children through Children's Hope earthquake sponsorship program.

Being together for three days, I became friends with Wenjie, the publisher of Good Housekeeping - China, and Wenghong, who said she is so excited to have met me and Children's Hope. There is one thing we all shared in this group: every one of us has children of their own and our hearts have gone out to these children affected by the earthquake.

We have found 288 children in our Mianyang Hope Center area who lost one parent. We plan to begin a special one-time sponsorship program for all of these children.

Loving moms from different cities joined us to help the children.