Humanitarian Aid in China
Wide Horizons Creates Emergency Fund for Earthquake Relief
Wide Horizons For Children has created a fund to provide emergency and long-term relief to children in orphanages and children who have been separated from their families, orphaned, physically hurt, and emotionally traumatized. Read details of our appeal.
Due to a one-child policy set forth in the 1970s to help control its population, China is home to millions of abandoned children, mostly girls, living in institutions across the country. While approximately 10,000 of these children find permanent homes through adoption each year, there is seemingly no end to the number of children without families still living in China. More than 83% of orphans live in institutions located in countryside villages that lack basic necessities like heat, laundry facilities, indoor plumbing or electricity. Many are overcrowded and/or plagued with inadequate staffing. Proper facilities for children with special needs are also sorely lacking in many of these under resourced institutions.
WHFC has been working in China since it opened for international adoption in 1991. Since then we have contributed significant funds for the improvement of orphanages and other projects to benefit children who are waiting for a family or may never be adopted. In the last five years alone, we have contributed more than $330,000 to projects in China.
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National programs aimed at improving caretaker knowledge and providing health and development assistance to orphaned and abandoned children. |
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Children living in orphanages in rural areas of China are in particular need of aid. |
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Orphans with special needs face mobility limitations in China's orphanages. Many are confined to the walls of an institution with no access to the outdoors. |
For more information on any of our humanitarian aid work in China, contact Ali Crandall at 781.419.0340 or acrandall@whfc.org.