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In China today, tens of thousands of abandoned infants and young children, primarily girls and the disabled, live in orphanages. Despite the extraordinary efforts of their caregivers, many are at great risk for malnutrition, illness, and failure to thrive. This appeal is your invitation to help.
FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN FROM CHINA, INC. in New York ("FCC") is pleased to announce that it will be working with the China-based Amity Foundation, an experienced and respected humanitarian organization that's been working in orphanages for ten years, providing a range of services for orphaned children. Our financial support will help to ensure that many infants and children in Chinese orphanages will receive basic care, health services, and educational benefits.
Through Amity's coordination, there is a lot we can do for these children: We can provide baby clothes and formula; sponsor personnel to train orphanage staff and give attention and hugs to toddlers; cover the cost of having physicians evaluate handicapped orphaned children; and pay for corrective surgeries. And as children grow, our financial support can pay for school fees, learning materials, and job training.
Amity is "perhaps the most active indigenous development NGO (non-governmental organization) in China." --from a report by The Ford Foundation
Based in Nanjing, the Amity Foundation is an independent, non-governmental organization that works with the official recognition of the Chinese government. Amity got its start in 1985 when leaders of China's Christian churches and other reformers organized to improve the lives of China's neediest. Amity's first programs for orphaned children included the sponsorship of a rehabilitation unit for disabled children at Nanjing Children's Welfare Institute in 1988. Also in Nanjing, Amity launched its Grandmother Program in which retired physicians and nurses are sponsored to work in orphanages. Amity Grandmas now work in close to a dozen orphanages. Last year, Amity sponsored a young woman named Yang Hong Xia, who grew up in Gaochun Social Welfare Center, to attend a vocational college. With our support, perhaps many more young women and men can attend college and receive special technical training.
While Amity benefits from the support of China's Christian community, its social service programs are expressly and exclusively humanitarian. Besides working with orphans, Amity assists families by providing health services, training medical personnel (close to 1,000 a year), and responding to natural disasters and emergencies. Victims of polio (many of them children), blindness, and other disabilities are assisted through rehabilitation and surgeries. Amity education projects keep many young children in school, and its empowerment programs for women have brought job skills and health care to thousands of women.
Monies raised through Families with Children from China would be used specifically for Amity's orphanage programs. To cover its operating costs, Amity retains five percent of all donations. None of the contributions raised by FCC for Amity will be used for religious purposes.
One-hundred percent of your donation will be forwarded to Amity to further their work in orphanages. Some examples of how your gifts will be used include:
For additional information and to make a donation see the website at: http://www.FCCNY.org/oaa.asp
Your support can make a difference. To receive more information or to receive a fund-raising brochure, please email Connie Clemmons at jinmiao@aol.com or Aileen Koger at fk5harmony@aol.com.
Families with Children from China is a not-for-profit, volunteer-driven organization of families who have adopted children from China. FCC provides information to prospective adoptive parents and supports those in the adoption process. Through a variety of social activities and educational programs, we aim to enrich our experiences as multi-cultural, multi-racial, adoptive families. FCC seeks to promote the health and well-being of children remaining in orphanages in China by publicizing information about orphanage-assistance programs and by raising funds for them.
The Greater New York chapter of Families with Children from China has over 1,200 members, with an active group of volunteers working on our Charitable Initiatives Committee. Other committees include Chinese Culture, Parent Programs, and Adoption Information. Volunteers also produce FCC's quarterly newsletter.
FCC-NY gratefully acknowldges the Equitable Foundation for donated services that designed, produced, and printed our fundraising brochure.