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FUNDRAISERSThe E Family
Adopted in December 2003
I always knew I wanted to adopt a child. When my husband and I were ready to start a family in 2002 we decided to adopt a little girl from China. In
the Fall of 2003 we got “the call" we had a referral. A beautiful baby
girl named Jiang Ru, just 8 months old and living in Dianjiang SWI. In
December 2003 we boarded a plane for Chongqing, on foggy afternoon in
Chongqing at the Civil Affairs office we meet our baby girl. What an
amazing journey to parenthood.
In 2005 we decided to add to our family, we adopted a little boy from
Xinxiang China, “Sai Zhe” born 2004. We traveled to Xinxiang shortly after
Thanks Giving. Jiang Ru joined us on the trip to meet her brother. They
are the best of friends and both are the light of our life. There are
people who say our children are so lucky, we say that we've been given a
gift and we are the lucky ones.
I am so excited that Dianjiang has decided to start a Gracie’s Room project
in Xinxiang. I know it will have a tremendous impact on the lives of
children currently in Xinxiang. Just as it has in Dianjiang. This is a
great Red Thread story.
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The H Family
Adopted in October 2003
We adopted Astrid (Jiang Yuan) back in October 2003 when she was 10 months old. We were 10 families from Denmark and we had a visit to the orphanage on a Sunday before we had got the girls.
We were led around the corridors and we could look through the windows and see a lot of small babies in different rooms.
We were not told which of the babies were ours so everyone were filming like crazy.
When we came to a room where one of the ayis were crying and lifting every baby up and kissing them we knew it was the babies we were looking for.
There must have been 15-20 babies in the room and there were all standing in their beds dancing to some Chinese music. We saw Astrid almost instantly as she had a lot of hair.
They never told us that it was the babies for us so everybody went back to the hotel and watch the recorded films Sunday night.
Monday morning we all went back to the orphanage were we were handed over the babies in one of the rooms at the orphanage. It all went very quickly and then it was a 3 hour bus ride back to Chongqing.
Astrid cried the whole time back to the hotel but since then there have been nothing and the 3 hours was her grieving time.
Astrid is very smart and has a lot of energy and it helped when we adopted Maria from Jiangxi in November 2005 because Astrid danced and sang for Maria and she never cried once.
We currently live in Denmark but in July we will be moving to Beijing for at least 3 years because work brings us there. We do plan to visit Dianjiang so that Astrid can see it again.
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The M Family
Adopted in January 2004
We are a family of six: My husband and I, two sons born to us in the US, and two daughters born in China. On her referral paperwork, our Dianjiang daughter was called 'Xiao Bao Bei' or little treasure. And she is indeed that. When we first saw her in Dianjiang in January, 2004, she looked up at us from her crib and looked and looked. After a solid minute she reached for a toy, put her thumb in her mouth and looked away. Ten minutes later in the meeting room downstairs, our daughter came to us without fear, examining us, smiling, curious. Five years later she remains a smiling, mischievous, intelligent, loving, music-loving little girl. She will proudly tell you she is from China. Her greatest delights from our trip to Dianjiang last year were: holding the baby panda, climbing the Great Wall and playing with the babies at Dianjiang. When we left, Director Gao gave her a little gift of VCDs and a cute little purse. She treasures those. Oh and as soon as we walked away from the pandas, she looked at me and unprompted said, 'That panda smelled like cherries!'
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