Day 1 - Butterfly Children's Home Nanjing
I think it's only fitting that Day 1 of Forty Days 2014 starts with Butterfly Children's Hospices since I am currently completing a month's stay as Interim Operations Manager in support of their new unit in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. This is a wonderful, wonderful place full of light and love and yes, even hope, for children that most have decided are hopeless. I have been touched by the staff, the volunteers and most of all the children (several of whom I have hinted may end up in one of my suitcases for the trip back to Beijing!).
Butterfly Children’s Hospices (BCH), is a UK registered charity which has established the first children’s hospice and community palliative care service in China. We provide loving care and treatment for children with life-threatening illnesses or life-limiting conditions in China and support for their families, where they have them, to prevent abandonment.
The first home opened in Changsha in April 2010, with the aim of caring for any child who had a life expectancy of less than six months. Now it is fully open, the home provides 18 beds for abandoned babies and children and a three-bed high-dependency unit for very sick newborns.
In October, we were delighted to establish a second home under the Butterfly Children's Hospices umbrella in Nanjing. Please look on our website for more details of how you can help - whether by cot sponsorship or with specific items on our wishlist for the Nanjing Home. See our blog to read our stories and see photos of our beautiful children.
Butterfly Children’s Hospices (BCH), is a UK registered charity which has established the first children’s hospice and community palliative care service in China. We provide loving care and treatment for children with life-threatening illnesses or life-limiting conditions in China and support for their families, where they have them, to prevent abandonment.
The first home opened in Changsha in April 2010, with the aim of caring for any child who had a life expectancy of less than six months. Now it is fully open, the home provides 18 beds for abandoned babies and children and a three-bed high-dependency unit for very sick newborns.
In October, we were delighted to establish a second home under the Butterfly Children's Hospices umbrella in Nanjing. Please look on our website for more details of how you can help - whether by cot sponsorship or with specific items on our wishlist for the Nanjing Home. See our blog to read our stories and see photos of our beautiful children.