Care package to introduce us to XX
We are very fortunate that a family is traveling to adopt one of XX’s friends from the same orphanage. They leave on Saturday to meet her Monday and generously offered to deliver a care package for XX. We’ve included a labeled photo album, a letter to her, a letter to the nannies, a disposable camera (in hopes she will take some photos of her friends and surroundings) and some candy to share with the other children.
As I mentioned before, this is a small orphanage with less than 25 children, toddler to teens, they are apparently a close knit group. A couple have already been adopted and several have families in various phases of the process. Here they are from last November, when our coordinator made a visit to the orphanage. XX is in the middle row, fourth from the left. The girl being adopted next week is also in the middle row, third from the right.
Panzhihua SWI
There is a gal in the UK who does translations for adoptive families https://www.facebook.com/GivingWords. She donates her proceeds to Little Flower a nonprofit that provides special care to abandoned orphans in China. She translated the letter to XX and to her caregivers and also translated labels for the photos in the album we sent.
We are looking forward to approval from China in the next few weeks and can’t wait to share more information about XX. We use the initials XX because those are the actual initials of her Chinese name, which we will keep as a middle name, just like we did with Finnley.
Rocking the Red Thread 