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Half the Sky Foundation
Mission: "To enrich the lives and enhance the prospects for the babies and children in China who still wait to be adopted, and for those who will spend their childhoods in orphanages. Half the Sky establishes early childhood education, personalized learning and infant nurture programs in Chinese welfare institutions in order to provide the children stimulation, individual attention, and an active learning environment."
In China since: 1999
Annual China budget: $1,500,000
Number of staff: 567 national and 6 expatriate
Mainland China contact:
Jenny Bowen, Executive Director
Zhang Zhirong, Managing Director, China
Apartment 7-2-103
Jianguomenwai Diplomatic Compound
Beijing Chaoyang 100600
Tel: +86 10-8532-3043
Fax: +86 10-8532-1920
International Contact:
Ivy Yu, Office Manager
764 Gilman Street
Berkeley, CA 94710 USA
Tel: 510-525-3377
Fax: 510-525-3611
This foundation was established in 1999 by a group of parents in the United States who had adopted children from China. The foundation works to improve conditions for children remaining in China’s orphanages.
With the help of volunteers and local partners, including the China Population Welfare Fund, Half the Sky has established thirteen child development centres in Chinese orphanages. These set out to improve standards of infant nurture, early childhood development and learning, and to ensure that the children receive care, stimulation, individual attention, and an active learning environment.
A ‘Baby Sisters Infant Nurture Programme’ trains care assistants to provide ‘responsive care’ to three to five infants by feeding, touching, and talking to them. At eighteen months of age, children are moved into a ‘Little Sisters Pre-school Programme’ that combines western and Chinese pre-school practices to provide a caring and stimulating learning environment.
A ‘Big Sisters Programme’ provides special tutoring, and training to selected older children. They are educated and trained (including, in some cases, training overseas) in the development methodology used by Half The Sky; and are then expected to work for at least two years in one of the Half the Sky child development centres.
The Foundation hopes to establish two centres in each province that has a substantial number of institutionalized children, to serve as models and training centers for other institutions in that province. Half the Sky is also exploring ways to work with children whose parents have died of AIDS.
Half the Sky is funded by private donations.
Links
http://www.halfthesky.org
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