MMI Rescues Abandoned Handicapped Babies in China

In an effort to save more abandoned babies, Medical Mission International supports a Chinese program that rescues abandoned, handicapped newborns and provides emergency surgery and life-giving primary care. The MMI Program Partner for this venture is Hope Foster Homes in Beijing, China.

Hope Foster Homes is headed by Dr. Joyce Hill, MBBS, FRACGP, and her husband, who provide first response trauma care and arrange surgery and hospital care for the children. They share the vision of MMI to bring health, healing, and hope to the world’s hurting, making them an excellent partner.

Most of these abandoned Chinese babies have rather simple birth defects. The most typical problems are deformities such as clubbed feet, exposed organs, and cleft lips and palates. Often, these children are already malnourished or premature, and their parents do not know how to handle childhood diseases or birth defects. 
 
The Hope Foster Homes provides intensive care services to these children found by police. It is not uncommon to find abandoned children also suffering from frostbite and starvation. They even have success helping babies with more serious medical challenges such as heart problems and tumors.

Sponsors are needed to help provide life and hope for abandoned children. Cleft and other surgeries in China cost as little as HK$2,235 each, and Hope Foster Homes can support and protect one of these children for HK$358 a month. Additional donations are needed to support the trained nannies that are paid HK$670 a month to care for the children and for maintenance and construction costs.