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L O V E W I T H O U T B O U N D A R I E S 2 0 1 1 A N N U A L R E P O R T physical therapy One of the biggest challenges of China’s orphanage system today is providing ongoing physical and occupational therapy to children born with conditions such as cerebral palsy. Almost every orphanage we work with has asked for additional training on how to best care for these beautiful children. Our commitment to their care continued in 2011 with another provincial training provided by therapists from the U.S. This year’s training was held in Guizhou Province, and the therapists traveled and evaluated children in Beijing, Anhui, and Fujian Provinces as well. Nearly 100 children were seen and evaluated on this trip. In addition children in many orphanages received essential adaptive equipment, such as wheelchairs, walkers, and orthotics. adoption advocacy LWB believes so strongly that every orphaned child possible deserves the chance of a permanent family. Once again in 2011 several thousand children were placed on China’s special needs adoption list. To help overcome the stigma surrounding the term “special needs,” LWB continued its education work by maintaining and updating our www.adoptspecialneeds.org website. We also expanded our Waiting Child video series by creating a new video on the adoption of boys, who often wait far longer for families than girls. LWB offered ten adoption grants in 2011 for children who had been waiting a particularly long time for a home. Our blog at www.lwbcommunity.org continued to highlight children in our programs who were available for adoption, resulting in many children finding permanent homes! We also celebrated a marked increase in domestic adoption within China and give thanks that many of the children in our programs were adopted locally. 8
L O V E W I T H O U T B O U N D A R I E S 2 0 1 1 A N N U A L R E P O R T worldwide help LWB Spain had a wonderful year as they expanded their programs to establish the Believe in Me Changzhi School in Shanxi Province. They also continued their full support of the Tongren foster care program in Guizhou. We all celebrated when LWB Spain won a televised lip dub contest, with the proceeds going to help orphaned children born with cleft lip. Spain maintains their own website, blog, Twitter, and Facebook pages as well. LWB branches in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Ireland continued their efforts to help orphaned children, and donations to bring aid to children in need arrived from 25 countries around the world. LWB Spain established the Believe in Me Changzhi School in Shanxi Province, which opened in September 2011. LWB remains a passionate and committed volunteer ministry, and in 2011 we had over 185 volunteers from 13 countries working in our programs and watching over the children closely. We were excited to see more volunteers from within China and are grateful to our staff there for continually looking for ways for local citizens to get involved in orphan care. team lwb TeamLWB (www.TeamLWB.com) is a program that allows individuals to make a difference in the life of a child by creating or joining a fundraising event, such as a marathon, a 5K race or a walk. In 2011 Team LWB raised over $60,000 for our orphanage assistance, medical, education and healing homes programs. The events included the Los Angeles Marathon, a half marathon in Long Branch, NJ, a 5K Walk in Cary, NC; the 5K Zoo Run in Brookfield, Ill., the Flora Mini-marathon in Ireland, the 5K Rebel Race in Frederick, MD, the Philadelphia Half Marathon and the Marine Corps Marathon, 10K and Kids Fun Run in Washington, DC. 9
Page 1 and 2: 2011 Annual report Hope and healing
Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS A Child’s Story
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