Your kindness and help is deeply appreciated by our children both in China and in the States. 

China Adoption With Love, Inc. is an IRS 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization and your donations to the agency qualify for the tax credit in your annual return!

History

Our agency’s charity activities in China started in1998. There was a serious flood that summer and about 20 orphanages were damaged. Our agency sent a letter to all families who had already adopted through us to ask for their assistance. The response was overwhelming. In two months, we received $6,685. Since Mr. Robert Eisenberg became the agency's Chairman of the Board of Directors, the agency has set up a donation account called the Rainbow Fund and we have been doing even more for the children left in the Chinese orphanages. In recent years, we have donated about $50,000 to $65,000 every year to the Chinese orphanages.

Before 2003, the agency donated mainly to foster care systems. At one time, we sponsored 8 orphanages' foster care systems. We also supported 20 special needs children and older children's educations and two crawling rooms in one orphanage.

Policies

• Every single dollar we receive as a donation will be used directly for the children in the Chinese welfare system. No administrative expenses shall occur to the Rainbow Fund. The CAWLI Board of Directors approves each donation.
• The agency respects all donors’ intentions for donations under the guidelines of the IRS 501(c)(3) regulations.
• The agency donates to the orphanages through the provincial government so the Chinese government can supervise the way the orphanages use the donation. To make sure that the orphanages do receive the donation, we request a receipt and report on the donations from the orphanages. To better maintain the agency’s 501 (c)(3) nonprofit status and to make the annual auditing easier, we will not open an account or hire anybody in China.
• A donation report shall be provided through the agency’s web site every year for public accountability.

Major Projects

• Tomorrow Plan – sponsored by the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA’s web site: www.china-ccaa.org). This plan projects to collect enough funds for about 30,000 children in the Chinese welfare system who have minor correctable medical conditions to have the surgeries they need. In August of 2004, the agency donated $50,000 to this plan through CCAA from the agency’s operational revenue.
• Older Children into Society Plan  – Nanchang City Social Welfare Institute, Jiangxi Province. There are 25 older children ages 16 to 25 years old in this institute who will receive no further schooling. Working with the institute, the agency rents an apartment in a local community that houses 6 children and one instructor living together to integrate them into the community for employment training, schooling, dating, and meaningful social events. The pilot project started in the summer of 2003 with our $2,500 donation. We plan to continue and expand this project if it works well. Any other ideas for children’s career training? We would love to hear from you!
• Older Children Employment Training  – Zhuzhou City Social Welfare Institute, Hunan Province. There are about 100 older children in this institute. Before 1980, there was a Welfare School and Factory system in China that was supported by the government. This system could not survive with the profit-driven economic reform that has been occurring in China for the past 20 years, so they have disappeared. We hope the children living here can produce a simple product for the commercial market in China and in the States. The agency made $4,500 donation in 2005 for this project.
• Older and Special Needs Children Education  – A project with Haikou City Welfare Institute, Hainan Province. We have sponsored this project for three years. It is $2,500 a year that goes towards education within the orphanage.
• College Tuition Plan  – Fuzhou City Social Welfare Institute, Jiangxi Province. This is a donation for the only college student from this institute.
• Foster Care Systems in Hunan, Jiangxi and Hubei  – While the government began mandating that foster care systems be a part of the provincial budget in November of 2003, we do not yet fully understand its effectiveness. For the systems we have sponsored before, we intend to evaluate the needs and continue our donations.

Donation Report for 2007

From January 1 to December 31 of 2007 our agency has received about $43,169.00 from about 100 families and individuals in forms of stocks and checks. There are many beautiful stories about these donations! Shoshanna Gordon donated all her Bar Mitzvah gifts to Nanjing City Children’s Welfare Institute. Eleven years old Lily Visgillo in Rhode Island directed her friends to send birthday gifts to our agency to support charity works in China. Lena Giguere sent her birthday party gifts to the orphanage she was from and her mother Christine matched the number! The orphanage director was so happy when she learned about the donation! Thank you, our children and families, for being so generous and so thoughtful!

On behalf of the children and families, our agency during the same period has donated $54,000.00 to the Chinese orphanages and some charity institutions in the states.

In 2007, our donations are mainly for orphan adoption programs in the following provinces: Shanxi, Hubei, Anhui, Chongqing. Sichuan, Jiangsu, Xinjiang. With less and less abandonment in China and more and more domestic adoptions, there are less children available for international adoptions. At same time, we see more orphans in the society and in the Chinese welfare systems. Everywhere I traveled in China, I saw and heard of this group of children. Helping these children becomes an important concern.

Our agency has sponsored 25 SN children's special education in Haikou City Social Welfare Institute for seven years now and this year we donated $2,000 again for the effort. These kids became so big. The orphanage’s two directors visited Boston in Spring of 2007 and we had a party for them. They were so happy to see the kids and they remembered their names and recognized them right away!

For Hunan province, we donated $4,000 for Zhouzhou older and SN children career training program in Zhuzhou SWI. It is our seventh year to sponsor this program!

In 2007, we have made donations to the following social welfare institutes in China:

New Charity Project 2008:  Donations to Provinces for Storm Relief

Provinces that CAWLI is sending donations to at this time, include:  Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei,  Guangdong, Guizhou,& Anhui

To send a donation to this relief fund make checks payable to China Adoption With Love Inc., in the memo section please print clearly the province/orphanage you would like to donate to.

Thank you for all of your concern and generosity in this time of need.

Our hearts are touched on a regular basis by the stories we hear and the donations we receive. We truly wish to thank you for your kindness, generosity, and consideration for the children left behind. Through your help, we slowly make this world a smaller, more peaceful place and have evidence that the human spirit lives. Our CAWLI family continues to grow both in the States and in China.

On behalf of all of the children in China and all CAWLI families,
Thank you, CAWLI Staff

Snow Storm Relief Donation List – 2008

Thank you, all grandparents and parents, for your generous contribution!

Report on the Chinese New Year Party

The CAWLI 2008 Chinese New Year Party was held on February 9th at Christina’s in Foxboro.  About 1,200 people attended the party!  Many families flew in or drove from as far away as PA!  Thank you to our Chinese New Year Party Committee:  Paula Webster, Elizabeth King, Barbara Childs, Debbie Greenstein and the many parents who helped!  Thank you student volunteers from Wellesley, Tufts and Harvard University!  Thank you for putting together a lovely and splendid party for us!  The activities were children-centered. There were children’s craft tables with fan-making, face-painting, etc. There were performances on stage. The performances were excellent!  The buffet was very good, too!

Mr. Yong Shi, the Deputy General Counsel of the General Consulate of People’s Republic of China in NYC, and Consulate Zhang Ying and Chan attended the party!  Our board chairman Paul Sahovey and Mr. Shi delivered wonderful speeches to the party and exchanged gifts.  It was the Chinese New Year weekend and their schedule was full for two weeks.  But they made all the effort to come to Boston to meet our children and families!  They were very impressed by the good parenting our families have done and also impressed by how well the party was organized!  They brought many gifts for the children.  To meet the representatives of the Chinese government every year is an important tradition for our children.  Many parents talked to the consulates and expressed their gratitude and pride.

The Party’s central theme was the Snow Storm Relief Appeal.   A special Thank You to Barbara Childs for organizing the silent auction and raffle!  Thank you to our families, for donating the treasured items for the event!  Thank you families for donating so much money to participate in the raffle and for the Snow Storm Relief Appeal!

We received approximately $3,820 from the raffle, $5,180 from the silent auction, $387 from Jewelry sales, $1,300 from Photos and $3,085 from direct Storm Relief donations. The total contribution was about $13,186.00!

All the donations will be sent to the Relief Account of the Civil Affairs Ministry in two weeks with the donor list below.  On behalf of the children and the orphanages in the affected provinces, I want to thank you all for your good heart and the endless effort to help after the adoptions!