Current Jiangxi orphanage

Director Zhou You Ping

Sample Jiangxi finding ad

Fuzhou DVD

Fuzhou City Social Welfare Institute

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About this orphanage:
The main orphanage facility houses the administrative offices and conference room. The actual baby area is in a white building directly to the north. On the ground floor is located the rooms for the older kids, as well as a Half-the-Sky preschool. It appears well equiped and well used. The infants are cared for on the second level in five baby rooms, each room housing nine or ten children, each with their own crib. The cribs are metal pipe construction, painted blue. Each has a small blanket. All the cribs are clustered in the middle of the room, with a walking space around the group so that the caregivers can easily reach each child.

But only a small portion of the children actually stay in the orphanage — mostly the older kids and special needs. Infants are here when they first arrive, and for a short time before adoption. The orphanage actually has over 450 children, with over 400 in foster care at any one time. There are more than 250 foster families in the program. The foster program costs the orphanage about 200,000 yuan each month, or about 500 rmb ($62) per child.

The current facility was constructed in June 2000. Prior to that the orphanage was located in Linchuan, about 5 miles away. That facility is no longer standing, and is now just a vacant lot. The orphanage program started in Fuzhou in 1968, and the first international adoptions began in 1993. So far over 700 children have been adopted outside China, 70% to the U.S.

Fuzhou City orphanage is the largest adoption orphanage in Jiangxi Province. The orphanage receives "feeder" children from the Linchuan orphanage (a.k.a. "Fuzhou Second"). Children transferred between the orphanages are given the middle name of "Chuan."

Director:
The current director of the Fuzhou orphanage is Zhou You Ping.

Adoption Stats:
2003 – 333
2004 – 353
2005 – 332
2006 – 241

Available from Research-China:
• Finding Ads - Finding ads are published by the orphanage as the first step for international adoption. The photos used in the ads pre-date a child's referral photo by several months. Additionally, information contained in the ads is very valuable to adoptive families, especially those who have not traveled yet.

• Photographs of City - Over the years, Research-China has visited many orphanages throughout China. We have built a large catalog of photos from these journeys that are available to families for purchase. They include, for example, pictures of the orphanages and staff, foster parents, finding locations, sites around the villages, towns and cities.

• Maps - Our maps are the perfect way to locate orphanages, finding locations, and other important features of your child's city. We offer maps in originals and scanned versions.

• DVD of City - Research-China.Org's orphanage DVDs provide a great look into the city of your child's birth. Orphanage tours (often including babyrooms), finding locations, and cultural and historical sites provide a wonderful introduction to your child's birth city.

• Birth Parent Search Analysis - A deeper analysis of the orphanage submissions, finding location distribution, gender and health ratios, and other interesting and important characteristics of the adoption program, is available through our Birth Parent Search Analysis. This report is specifically designed for adoptive families who wish to have reliable data to use in relating a child's history, or in deciding to do additional research in a particular orphanage area.

Address:
If you would like to send a letter or package to the orphanage, click here for a downloadable address label from BlessedKids.com.