The Social Venture Group interviewed United Foundation Executive Director Ellen Luo on philanthropy and healthcare for children in China. In the interview, Luo emphasized the lack of medical and healthcare for the orphan population, the role of the foundation in providing aid to children in low-income families, and plans for the future. To read the […]
Click here for pictures from the Yan Pei-Ming exhibit
UFCO has partnered with the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) for the exhibit Yan Pei-Ming: Landscape of Childhood that will open on June 19, 2009. Faces of 20 Chinese newborns will be directly painted onto flags that will line UCCA’s Big Hall.
With the images of Chinese […]
Please read the following except from Dr. Laurie Leitch’s Phase 4 field report below:
Summary of Phase 4
January 10-18, 2009
In phase IV, 10 days in total were spent in Sichuan Province by trainers and translators. Some new trainings and some reviewing trainings took place as initially planed.
In Jiangyou we met for the day with 26 […]
January 2009
For those of you who have been following Wei Hao’s story, I wanted to give you a very quick update. He is still with a foster family and is doing very well. Wei Hao is now walking and talking all of the time. He won’t sit still! He has a family working on adopting […]
The year 2008 was an exciting one and with the help of Beijing United Family Hospital and donations from all of you, we were able to help over 80 children in the past year. In 2008, BJU donated services totaling 3.98 million which allowed for 190 outpatient and 35 inpatient visits. A USD10,000 grant from […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
