Medical Fund for Needy Chinese Children

Dear Donors,

We hope everyone is doing well and remaining healthy during these times. With tightening regulations in China, we temporarily stopped accepting aid applications in the beginning of the year and shifted our focus to our Boston Trauma Fund, providing financial support to children who have the opportunity to come to America to receive free medical treatment at Shriners Hospital for Children, located in Boston.

Unfortunately, with the spreading of COVID-19 and travel restrictions, travel for the children who have been coming to the U.S. for treatments every year has been postponed indefinitely.

With our work currently on hold, we continue to follow up on the children we have supported In the past, and we’d like to share recent updates from Boran, a pre-mature born girl who turned 3 early this year.

Boran was born in January 2017 at 28 weeks old and weighing 2.9 pounds. Because she was pre-term, she had severe complications and was in an ICU relying on a respirator. Boran’s parents had unsteady income and could not afford all the treatment expenses. A Life A Time supported Boran’s medical expenses, sending three payments for a total of $3,449 during this time. Two months after her birth, Boran was released from the hospital. It has been three years since then, and under the great care of her family Boran is enjoying life as a pretty little girl. We are grateful that Boran’s parents did not give up on her when she was born with severe complications and when the family had financial difficulty and could not afford her treatments other than borrowing money.

Sincerely, 

A Life A Time Foundation