Sunday, March 24, 2013
It's
that time of year again! Krista- our Gracie's Room director-, Cathy -
our treasurer and Gracie's mom- and me- Moya, executive director of
Dianjiang Kids- are back in Henan province. We would love for you to
follow along on our journey as we visit the children and staff of our
Gracie's Room/First Hugs project at XinXiang in Henan province in China.
When
we visited last year, we were convinced things had to change. This
Gracie's Room /First Hugs project was not what we wanted it to be. It
was too tough for our kids to be in Gracie's Room/First Hugs with our
nannies special care and love for eight hours a day and then have to go
back to the general orphanage population. We spoke with the orphanage
director and we all agreed things had to change.
By
the fall, the orphanage had moved to a beautiful new building and
property. The orphanage helped us to hire a new manager for our Gracie's
Room/First Hugs project who spoke English as well as Chinese so we
could have better communication. We will introduce you to her later this
week. We also hired new nannies/ayis. They receievd special training to
understand child development and will continue to get new training.
So
now our wonderful kiddoes are in a 24 hour a day program. They always
get special love and attention. This week we will be visiting with the
kids on loving on them. We will be learning how the new Gracie's Room is
working and we will be offering our ideas and training for activities
during the day. We would love for you to follow along.
We
arrived in Zhengzhou, Henan's capital, Friday night after a 30 plus
hour day of travel. Today we made our way to Wal Mart and bought some
board books for the kids. Tomorrow we head out to XinXiang for the week.
We look forward to sharing with you!!
Moya
:) love seeing you in action moya!!!!
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