Archive for 'Special Activities'
Summer Camp - 2008
Our 2008 Summer Camp went from July 14th to July 18th. This year we again combined all the children from XuZhou Home of Hope and GongYi Home of Hope along with several children from the outside who wanted to join us.
On July 13th, Bob Sayer and the children from the XuZhou Home of Hope [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2008 under Special Activities.
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Pre Summer Camp - Retreat
This is our second year to have our Home of Hope Summer Camp which is when we bring all the Home of Hope children (from both XuZhou and GongYi) and many of the employees together for one week of fun activities, corporate teaching on character and social graces.
After last years Summer Camp we realized that [...]
Posted: July 17th, 2008 under China Tidbits, Education, Special Activities, Uncategorized.
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Summer Fun - 2008
Summer is a great time at the Home of Hope. We have our annual Youth Camp the later part of July which is when the children from our XuZhou facility come to GongYi for a week of fun, games and special teaching. Each year Ben and Michelle Godard take charge of the Youth [...]
Posted: June 22nd, 2008 under Our Children, Special Activities.
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Summer Work - 2008
Each summer we give our older children an option to work at the Home of Hope for a fair wage. We do this for several reasons including their learning new skills, learning about personal finance…. learning to manage their own money, developing a strong work ethic (Ye Ye is a hard task master) and [...]
Posted: June 21st, 2008 under Special Activities.
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Dawn’s Surgery - In Beijing
We left on Monday morning, April 14th to take Dawn and one House Mother to Beijing for Dawn’s surgery. We arrived at the hospital a little after four in the afternoon and got them all settled in. The doctor told us the surgery would be the next day at 5:00 PM and [...]
Posted: April 22nd, 2008 under Abandoned Babies, Special Activities, Surgeries.
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