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An Adoption Grant for Lilah
Hooray for adoption grants! Starting this month, LWB will be offering a $3,000 Adoption Assistance Grant for a family that chooses to move forward with Lilah’s adoption. Just a few weeks ago, Lilah...
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Healing Home Hero of the Week: Erin
Right before Christmas in 2015, baby Erin came into this world. Born with Down Syndrome and a heart defect, she found herself in an orphanage in central China. An orphanage isn’t the best place for any...
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World Down Syndrome Day 2018
Did you ever wonder why March 21 is World Down Syndrome Day? March 21, or 3/21, signifies the triplication (trisomy) of the 21st chromosome which causes Down Syndrome. Around the world, people are...
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Adoption Grants for Four Children From Huainan
Four children who have been waiting for adoption may now be one step closer to finding permanent families of their own. Adoption grants in the amount of $3,000 are now available for each of these...
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Foster Care in Sanmenxia, Henan
LWB recently signed a new foster care agreement with the Sanmenxia orphanage in Henan province to provide quality foster care to orphaned children. We believe fully that every child deserves to grow up...
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An Adoption Assistance Grant for Sawyer
Sawyer is an adorable seven-year-old in our Huainan Foster Care program who is waiting for his opportunity for a permanent family of his own. For the past five years, Sawyer has lived with the same...
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Meet Liv from LWB Foster Care
Baby Liv is from the beautiful province of Guizhou, a mountainous part of China which is home to many Miao and Dong ethnic minority groups. Born with the special need of albinism, an inherited...
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Waiting for Adoption in 2019
As orphaned children grow older, their opportunity to be chosen for adoption shrinks. Today we are highlighting 15 children from our programs in China who are currently waiting for a permanent home of...
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Maria: 13 Years Old and Waiting for A Family
This week, Maria turns 13 years old. In China, this means that Maria has just one year left to find a family before she is no longer eligible for adoption. To help raise awareness of her situation and...
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Sickle Cell Anemia: Lawrence Paul
Sickle cell anemia is a hereditary disease that is passed to a child when he or she receives a sickle cell gene from each parent. It causes the child’s red blood cells to not be shaped normally as a...
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A $20,000 Adoption Assistance Grant for Ifan
Thanks to the amazing generosity of someone who really wants Ifan to finally be chosen and have a family of his own, we can announce that this wonderful 12-year-old now has a $20,000 Adoption...
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Waiting Child Wednesday: Jeri
Jeri is a five-year-old boy in our Huainan On-site Family Care Program and Education Program who is waiting for adoption. When he was a baby, Jeri came into our care as a resident of our China Healing...
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Adopting a Child With Vision Impairment
Before adopting a blind child, I really believed life would be a lot different once she came home, and it has been, but it hasn’t been her blindness that has held her back. This is how it began: Her...
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Down Syndrome Love: Without Boundaries!
October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month. All month, we’ve been celebrating the many incredible children in our programs who were born with Down Syndrome. On the final day of October, we are putting...
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Waiting Child Wednesday: Brian Christopher
In 2012, a shy and serious little boy named Brian Christopher entered our Believe In Me Huainan education program. He did not have the confidence to speak to the teachers and was quite tentative about...
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Meeting Ifan
While traveling in China recently, I took the opportunity to take a side trip to meet a very special boy. Ifan had been part of the Love Without Boundaries foster care program since he was a baby. He...
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Waiting Children of 2019
Yesterday was the last day of National Adoption Month, a time to recognize adoptees and highlight children waiting for adoption. Today, we are featuring children we’ve had in our programs either now or...
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Four Children Waiting For Adoption
Just recently, our China staff visited an orphanage in Anhui and was able to visit with some children who were previously in our programs. We discovered that four of them have completed adoption files...
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Auden
Over Christmas, my kids had a laugh-filled night remembering some of the rare times I’d gone “full Mama Bear” when they were being bullied. I kept shaking my head and telling them they were highly...
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2019 Adoptions
And now for some happy news! Although international adoptions from China have slowed, be assured that they are still happening. In 2019, at least 25 children from LWB programs were adopted both...
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