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Field Notebook


A China Care Club's First Year
March 1, 2010

Megan Gao started the China Care club at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Read more about what the club has done in its first year.

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China Care Home's Associate Director: Understanding Babies' Needs
November 16, 2009

Learn about the China Care Home's Associate Director, who was interviewed by summer volunteer Fiona Poon.

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Life Lessons From Little Fighters
September 21, 2009

A graduate student at McGill University learned a lot about life from the "strong little fighters" she met as a volunteer at our China Care Home in Beijing during the summer.

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Sharing Smiles
August 26, 2009

William Chen is one of our summer volunteers who recently returned from spending two weeks at the China Care Home in Beijing. While he was there he got to know our tiny little charges, cuddling them, reading to them and playing with them - all the time watching in amazement as these fragile babies battled their various medical challenges.

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A Place of Love, Happiness and Hope
August 14, 2009

Megan Gao has been volunteering at our China Care Home in Beijing for the last two weeks. In her first few days there, the soon-to-be senior at Canada's McMaster University learned a lot from both the children and their caregivers.

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Meeting the Children
August 12, 2009

Fiona Poon will be the Fundraising Co-Director of the China Care Bruins at UCLA when she enters her junior year this fall. She is currently volunteering at the China Care Home in Beijing where she is getting to know and care for our children in person.

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Getting to Know Jiang
July 29, 2009

Tufts junior John Speed Meyers volunteered for China Care in Beijing to get to know the people and the culture better. Through an orphaned little boy he got to know, he also learned a lot about the importance of family.

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Preschool and Play Dough with Duo
July 14, 2009

When college senior Callie Ellison traveled to Beijing to volunteer for China Care, she helped teach some of our children in preschool. While she was there, she got to know a little boy named Duo, who despite numerous disabilities, showed her a little bit about having fun.

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Transporting Children on the Train
September 10, 2008

A junior nursing major at the University of Wisconson learns what it takes to care for infants with special medical needs when she acts as a caregiver for one fragile child being transported to receive medical treatment.

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The Happiest Baby
September 1, 2008

Born with spina bifida and abandoned shortly after, one little girl braves her medical challenges with a smile and in doing so, makes a big impression on a China Care volunteer.

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