Wei Hao is currently being fostered by an expat family in Tianjin who have committed to fostering him until he is adopted. His adoption paperwork began 2 months ago and we hope that by the winter of 2009, he will have a permanent, loving family to call his own. Just as he was beginning to […]

UFCO has was approached to help support a project whose goal was to bring mental health care to the victims of the Sichuan Earthquake. The project brings psychologists from the United States to Sichuan to train local residents in how to help treat psychological trauma of the children survivors. Sources are estimating that there are […]

Several years ago there was an article written in the Wall Street Journal a boy who had leukemia. His parents were too poor to pay for his therapy and treatments and had run out of ideas. This article was written just in time and in two weeks, the WSJ had received over USD200,000 in donations […]

Gui Hao is a 5 month old baby boy who has biliary atresia. Like Wei Hao, he was admitted to Wu Jing Zong Hospital in desperate need of a liver transplant. UFCO heard about the family’s story and went to meet them on a visit to see Wei Hao. The mother had heard about what […]

In December 2007, 2000 copies of our Best of Beijing cookbooks were printed. We have sold about 600 copies so far and have broken even months ago but we have many copies left to sell! We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are interested in marketing and promotion who can help get our books […]

Wei Hao has made amazing progress in the last three weeks. His surgical incisions are closed, all the tubes have been removed, he is no longer on antibiotics, and his jaundice is clearing. If you have been following his story, you will remember that he was abandoned and had been living in a hospital until […]

We are pleased to announce UFCO applied for and was awarded a $10,000 USD grant by Abbott Laboratories to pay for corrective surgeries for orphans. Three little girls have already received life-changing surgeries using this money. One for spina bifida, one for a congenital defect in her large intestine, and one for a diaphranatic hernia. […]

Thanks to all of you in Beijing who visited the UFCO booth at the Expat Show April 4th-6th. We raised 6,450 RMB through the sales of our cookbook “The Best of Beijing,” and most importantly, we were able to share our mission with you. We are grateful for your support and the work of our […]

Yu Jia was left outside a local foster home in the hopes that someone would or could save her life. She was already close to 3 months old but because of her unexplained (at the time) illness, she was unable to digest milk and as a result was malnourished and extremely underweight.
She was found […]

This is a story about a little boy who wouldn’t give up.
On October 22nd, 2007, UFCO received a phone call from a woman who told us about a little boy who had been abandoned by his parents and was living on a cart in a hospital. He had jaundice though no one knew what it […]