Learning more about Fenghuangyuan Orpanage

Alyssa's orphanage
Fenghuangyuan Facility in Yongzhou City, Hunan

The Director at Alyssa's orphanage said I could share the following information about the orphanage. Please understand that we ask questions so we can know what areas need our support. We know the nannies are taking great care of the children and are doing the best they can with what they have.

1. Are there children who need medical surgeries?

We have children who are disabled at the orphanage. Some of them need surgery. There are 3 orphans with cleft lip/palate and heart disease who have had surgeries. The rest of the children are C.P. and congenital Mongolian. Some of the C.P. children recieved treatment when they were younger but the situation didn't improve much. Director doesn't think it's necessary to give current C.P. and Mongolian orphans surgery. Director said they may need such help in the future when they have more disabled children.

2. Are there children at this orphanage available for adoption?

Yes, disabled children can be adopted.

3. Does the gov't provide money for your orphanage or does the orphanage rely solely on the money it receives when a child is adopted?

Money is provided by the gov't for the orphanage.

4. Does the orphanage have heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer?

Yes

5. Does the orphanage need items such as blankets, crib mattresses and toys?

We need blankets, crib mattresses and toys

6. Is there a need for baby formula at the orphanage?

We need 10 pieces of formula each month. Each piece has 20 packages. (our contact called the Director and wrote us this: each package of formula is about 18 RMB so the total cost for formula is 3600 RMB each month) Our contact wrote: "The orphanage will be happy if they can get help for formula."

7. Are the children at the orphanage able to go to school?

Yes

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I'm going to try and ask a few more questions to get specifics about education, nutrition, etc... We would love to be able to provide a playground for the children as well. We have seen many photos of the outside and inside of the orphanage but haven't seen any playground or any sort of play room. This would be something fun forus to raise money for and something the children (and nannies, I'm sure!) would LOVE to have at the orphanage.

Tammy