By Debbie Cohen | Associate Director, Communications
The Covid-19 pandemic has left those living in adversity, particularly children, increasingly vulnerable. But, thanks to your continued support, we have been able to keep implementing the OneSky Approach to working with China’s orphaned children, despite these challenging times. Read on, to find out more about our work with abandoned children in China …
OneSky’s work in China’s state-run orphanages is designed to help abandoned children — who lose about one month of growth for every three months in institutional care — not only survive but thrive, by training child welfare workers how to provide consistent family-like nurturing care and early education. The model offers a comprehensive template for best practice caregiving from the national policy level down to personalized guidance for addressing the challenges faced by each small child.
Thanks to the incredible generosity of our global supporters, we have been able to keep our programs running and our staff employed since the outbreak of the virus.
In February, we appealed for support as Covid-19 took hold in China. Because of your swift response we delivered 313,500 masks, 35,000 pairs of gloves and 521 barrels of disinfectant to orphanages across China.
None of this would have been possible without the support of our global donors. To date, your kindness and belief in our vision have enabled 210,067 children to receive transformative love and care and 58,501 caregivers to be trained.
Besides supporting the operations of national Model Centers, through our senior training team, we offer ongoing training and guidance for orphanage staff and administrators across the country. We also run an active, national online learning community, 1jiaren.org, that connects caregivers all over China and provides online education for professional growth.
We are working just as hard as we always have to ensure that institutionalized children all over China have a loving adult in their daily lives. These efforts include supporting Model Centers and Seed Centers where, through our Chinese sister organization, Chunhui Children, we help smaller orphanages create programs of their own.
Thank you again for your continued support! To read more stories about the children we serve, click here.
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