OUR PROGRAMS:

The On-Site Medical Care Program

In 2004, UFCO “adopted” an orphanage in Henan province. UFCO-sponsored physicians, nurses, and volunteers visit the orphanage regularly to examine, treat, and chart the growth the children. Children needing further treatment receive it at either a local hospital or at one of the United Family Hospital facilities in China. Since physicians cannot always be at the orphanage when a child gets sick, UFCO has started a program to pay for care at a local hospital near the orphanage. Before this program was started, premature and sickly infants abandoned to the orphanage were not taken to a hospital and would usually die as a result. Because orphanage caregivers now know that UFCO will cover the hospital care costs, they quickly take any children needing emergent care directly to the local hospital.

The Blossoming Babies Nutrition Program

UFCO provides the approximately 40-50 infants at the sponsored Jiaozuo, Henan orphanage with infant formula generously donated by Abbott Laboratories. Before formula was donated, the children were being fed watered-down goat’s milk which provided very little nutrition and as a result, the babies were not in good shape. The contribution made by Abbott Laboratories gives these children a second chance.

UFCO volunteers train the orphanage caregivers on formula preparation, sanitation, and selection of nutritious complementary foods. UFCO also donates bottles, cleft lip and palate bottles and sterilizers to the orphanage. To date, Blossoming Babies has provided high quality infant formula to over 250 children. As a result, babies are indeed blossoming.

*We are currently searching to support another orphanage that is closer to Beijing so we can be more involved than just helping to distribute formula.

Cui De Jie Program

In 2006, UFCO became the administrator of a special fund to provide medical care and social support for a child with leukemia. The story of Cui De Jie, an 8-year-old son of a poor farming family from Inner Mongolia, became known to the world when it was written in a Wall Street Journal article. After learning of their child’s diagnosis, the family garnered all of their resources, including borrowing from friends, but was able to pay for only a few months of treatment. In all, the child would need treatments over a period of at least 5 years if they were to hope for a cure. Sufficient funds were received from donors after reading this story to help the family return the funds they borrowed, complete the treatment and provide De Jie with an education.

As De Jie’s treatment nears its final year, his fund will continue to be used to help in cases of destitute parents who cannot afford to pay for their children’s medical bills.