Starfish Foster Home increased it’s family earlier this month – adding six new little ones.
Angela, Isaac, Ryan, Kathryn and Elise were the original five chosen to join Starfish and benefit from the medical teams coming in July 2010 to repair their cleft palates. Amanda, the sixth baby, was a surprise gift from the orphanage. She doesn’t have a cleft palate. Starfish was only expecting five babies, but when the orphanage offered Amanda they of course scooped her up!
These babies will be given lots of love at Starfish in hopes of their upcoming adoptions after surgery.
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After a long and amazing process – Tenderfeet’s new school is officially open!
The official opening & celebration was just this past Wednesday June 9th ! It was a colorful & exciting celebration for the children, teachers, and parents. All of the students were there dressed in their uniforms and Margaret spoke about what a great blessing the school in for Tenderfeet. A great partner of ours, Laconia Savings Bank, happened to be on tour and was able to visit during the opening celebration.
We are thrilled to begin discussions with Tenderfeet about our next steps – possibly buidling a playground and continuing to grow the school.
And just like the sky (and the roof) the doors and windows are blue!
As we move into the 8th week of construction of the new library for JWOC – things are really starting to take shape! (Check out the earlier photos here) The local community has come together to work so hard on getting this space ready for the students. We should have a fully functional library in about month….then it’s time to start stocking it with books!
Thanks to all who supported the buy a brick campaign and assisted in funding this great construction project! We are looking forward to seeing the students enjoying their new space!
Jatson Chumig Welfare Special School enjoyed a large celebration of International Children’s Day yesterday – some background:
The World Conference for the Well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland proclaimed June 1 to be International Children’s Day in 1925. It is not clear as to why June 1 was chosen as the International Children’s Day: one theory has it that the Chinese consul-general in San Francisco (USA) gathered a number of Chinese orphans to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in 1925, which happened to be on June 1 that year, and also coincided with the conference in Geneva.
The holiday is celebrated on 1 June each year. It is usually marked with speeches on children’s rights and wellbeing, children TV programs, parties, various actions involving or dedicated to children, families going out etc. It was adopted mostly by former and current Communist and Socialist countries.
Almost all of the children of Jatson Chumig do not know the date of their birth.
June 1 has always been celebrated as Children’s Day at Jatson. Under the big tent,�
which is setup in the center yard, the children spend the day performing; dancing and singing. From the youngest to the oldest as well as playing games with the younger ones.
The day concludes with a big lunch for all with meat being served and special foods.
The biggest part of the day is when a large birthday cake is served to everyone.�
Traditionally, when you receive your slice of cake, you take a bit of icing and swipe it
across the nose of the person serving it. This of course GROWS until everyone is wearing
just enough cake to know they’ve been ’served’ 
Children’s Day is special at Jatson Chumig. The children see each other as brothers & sisters … long choruses of Happy Birthday are sung throughout the day.
Everyone is a year older … Happy Birthday Jatson Children, 2010.