GongYi Home of Hope

As everyone was excitedly getting ready for the Chinese New Years celebration, no one expected the surprise that came our way on the 20th of January… just four days before the official start of the New Year’s celebration (sometimes referred to as Spring Festival) in China. At about 8:30 AM our gate guard called and […]

BOYS WILL BE BOYS A few days ago, Michael Yang Wen Bo (11 years old), Calvin Ge Hua Wei (14 years old), Peter Ma Hong Qi (10 years old) and Joseph Li Shi Yan (13 years old) decided to play “hooky” from school in the afternoon. As he does everyday, our bus driver took them […]

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 […]

It was a normal day… actually, quite nice outside… and Nathan was at his computer answering letters. He had just sat back down after taking his afternoon medications which he is still taking in follow up to his foot surgery awhile back. Suddenly this strange feeling came over him and he had this sensation as […]

Nathan knew something was in the air but wasn’t sure what and then the children came over and told him it was time for his birthday party. The above picture was the gift the children had arranged for their Ye Ye and even though they had made the picture that day at around lunch time […]