Archer’s Archives turns your adoption photos into beautiful DVD movies with music. 20% of profits from the DVD projects will be donated to the FTIA China Foster Care Programs. Please visit the Archer’s Archive website for more information.
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*A portion of the proceeds from this book will benefit the FTIA Hunan Foster Program!
What are our China Foster Care Programs?
FTIA supports two foster care programs in Hunan Province. These programs sponsor carefully selected foster families to care for children who would otherwise be raised in an orphanage. While the orphanages give the children the best care possible, in-home foster care allows for children to receive much more personal care and attention than an institution can provide.
Changsha, Hunan: FTIA sponsored it’s first foster care program in China in conjunction with the Changsha 1st Social Welfare Institute (SWI) in Hunan Province. This program had humble beginnings with just 25 children being fostered in 2001. Over the years the program has had much success and has grown to fostering 100 children at a time! Changsha SWI #1 covers a land area of 160 mu (1 mu = .667 hectares). There are about 30 staff members of which 20 are caregivers working directly with the children. There are about 300 children for whom the orphanage is responsible. Of this 300, 100 are in foster care families sponsored by the FTIA program, 99 children live in the community under a program funded by another foreign agency. This foreign agency provides funding to hire caretakers to take care of these 99 children (mostly special needs children) in family or group homes. Fifteen older children are attending a school where they overnight during the week and return to the orphanage on the weekends.
Hengshan, Hunan: Hengshan is FTIA’s newest foster care program. The program was started in early 2007 because of a decrease in the number of children at the Changsha 1st SWI. FTIA wanted to maximize the benefit to children in Hunan so we started a new program so we can continue to help as many children as possible. Hengshan Social Welfare Institute, founded in 1980, is made up of Hengshan Senior Citizen’s Home, Hengshan Social Welfare Institute and Hengshan Children’s Welfare Institute. It is located in Jiaotong Village, Hengshan County. It covers an area of 240 acres with 0.8 acres floorage. It accommodates 18 heirless old persons without support, 21 veterans, 5 self-funded old persons and 32 orphans and special needs children (26 of them are fostered in the families and 6 are in the orphanage). Hengshan has 35 staff members including 2 medical staff members, 16 caregivers, 4 nurses and 1 rehabilitation trainer. Hengshan is praised as “Provincial Second Class SWI” for its great job in caring for those in it’s care.
Donations to these programs are used to provide foster care and better quality nutrition for the children. Participating foster parents receive training and education by our FTIA staff in China to better equip them to care for the children.
100% of all monies received for these programs are used for the children – nothing is deducted for any kind of administrative expenses. All administrative costs are provided for by FTIA.
Please consider giving to the FTIA China Foster Care Programs. As a participant you would have the option to make monthly contributions or a one-time gift. We would in turn provide you with updated information about our programs through our website and in our quarterly China Foster Care newsletters. We would love for you to join us!
If you would like to donate to one of our programs, please see our current newsletter for information on how you can donate online or to print a donation form you can use when mailing a check. If you would like more information about any of the China Foster Care Programs, please contact Melissa Haywood, China Coordinator, at mhaywood@ftia.org.
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