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Humanitarian Aid Projects: 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.

China, a country of rich and varied history and culture is also home to over 20% of the world's population. Due to this overpopulation, the Chinese government implemented the one-child policy in the 1970's resulting in the abandonment of many baby girls. Each year thousands of these baby girls remain in orphanages, especially those with special needs and those in orphanages which we have yet to reach.

Support Humanitarian Aid Projects

Children in orphanageWide Horizons For Children was one of the first U.S. agencies to begin working in China when international adoptions were opened in 1991. We work closely with the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA), government officials, and orphanage directors throughout the country. One of our Board members personally travels to China each year to witness both the enormous difference that contributions have made, and the magnitude of all that remains to be done.

Sui Chuan Orphanage Construction Project

Construction of a new orphanage for children living in an overcrowded and decrepit facility in the middle of a large industrial center. Although the project is now underway, we are still short of our ultimate goal.

General Humanitarian Aid Support

Wide Horizons continues to work with existing partners, in addition to sending agency representatives to China in order to identify new projects in desperate need of our funding. We will focus particular attention on orphanages that care for children with special needs and orphanages in remote areas, which often fall "under the radar" of adoption activity and receive far less funding. With your help, WHFC can continue to respond to the urgent needs of children in China.

Projects underway or completed with your help:

  • Grants provided to Xia Jiang and Huazhou orphanages for basic support
  • About 5,640 surgical treatments provided to handicap orphans though the Tomorrow Plan
  • Ongoing support to the Sui Chuan Orphanage Construction Project

While the needs of children in China seem endless, with your help we can continue to make a world of difference. Please join us today by visiting our online donation page or contacting Lindsay Carver, Development Coordinator, at 781.419.0327 or lcarver@whfc.org.

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