"Our mission is to build 100 Wellness Care Centers all over China in the next 3 years. The first 4 will be built in four provinces: Shandong, Henan, Chongqing and Hainan, starting in 2010. Each center will only cost $50,000.00 to build."
· low-cost, affordable basic physical and mental healthcare services to those traditionally denied
· famine relief
· disease prevention
· Orphan Prevention and Education
· basic health care (offered in small counties vs.large cities)
· Community counseling services
· free educational and health resources
2. ORPHAN/ORPHAN PREVENTION - The Next Generation
The Orphan Crisis Worldwide
"Each life/family changing surgery will cost between $1200-$15,000 US" This will be depenant of the type of surgery the child needs. The surgeries range from simple cleft lip to intensive heart surgery. Every dollar helps transform and life and family."
* 150 million orphans worldwide.
*Each year only 250,000 children find adoptive families.
Every day more than 38,000 orphans around the world grow into adulthood in orphanages. This is no longer just a problem, this is a crisis.
We can no longer turn our backs or wait for our government to help.
We all can do something now to save a life and prevent another child from becoming an orphan.
The Core Issue: Parents Without Hope
Studies have found that indigent parents living near orphanages are likely to abandon their sick children. As the health of their child declines, the only solution, in the minds of these poor parents, is to leave the child in the hands of the orphanage, hoping the facility will have the funds to give their child much-needed medical care.
It is of paramount importance for all of us to understand why this happens, why parents abandon their children. It is an act of desperation and love, rather than a callous decision by uncaring parents. The surgeries these children require vary; some need just one operation to fix a fairly basic problem, and some require long-term medical care. Sadly, even children needing one operation are abandoned to orphanages, and if lucky, receive the surgery, but most likely will not be reclaimed by their birth parents. Neither are they adopted in most cases.
Saving Lives and Saving Families: Where You Come In
Our plan is to assist mothers and fathers in their quest to obtain, often times, life-saving surgical procedures for their children. We give renewed parents hope in saving their child’s life.
How does it work? One simple way is assessing how much funding a family still needs to afford adequate medical treatment for their child. The families typically fill out a form listing their assets. Usually these assets include a mud-brick house containing a heated platform bed called a "kang," a television set, basic furniture and a motorcycle they often share with one or two other families.Saving Levi Charities partners with the local governments to locate the most needy children and families. Based on this assessment, the at-risk families are asked to pay what they can reasonably afford as a percentage of their child¹s medical costs. We help by funding the remaining costs.
The result? Together we save a child's life and a family!
Chinese parents are just like you and me: they love their kids very much and want to be able to raise them in a loving home environment with the hope they grow up to be productive members of society. And because China has no social security network for peasant farmers, children are even more important as they often are the only available caregivers for elderly parents.
Our mission is to reduce the number of orphans in China by:
· providing needed surgeries
· health education
· pre-natal and medical support
"The cost for surgery, support and artifical limbs for each Burn Survivor will be between $200-$10,000 US (note that this is a range that will vary from child to child)"
We will be partnering with global and local organizations to come along beside burn survivors to help rehabilitate and encourage these amazing children. We aim to provide resources, current medical procedures,artificial limbs.
05.11.11
On May 11, 2011, the Spring City Evenings reported that there were two children severely injured in a fire. On their way to the hospital, a passer-by took a photo of the scene and then posted it on the internet. As a mother, we felt so anxious that we contacted the newspaper reporter to get the detailed information. The two children, Wang Ran,the elder sister aged three-and-a-half, Wang shi hang, the younger brother, aged two, were diagnosed severe degree burns on the head and hand. Their father was working away from home to support his family with his small income, while their mother was doing some farm working at home to take care of the two children. The fire made their situation even worse. On the evening of May 12, 2011, the children were sent into the Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University with the help of the caring net friends.
05.1.11
CBS Sacramento aired "Change for Change: Levi's Story". It can be viewed here
02.22.11
Lisa's personal story has been featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times. She has also been featured on numerous TV and radio programs.
01.19.11
Special thanks to those who contributed. Your hard work was well appreciated.
