Tuan Yuan Adoption Assistance Grant

We received a wonderful update about Tuan Yuan Adoption Assistance Grant recipient, Qi, who was adopted on September 1, 2008:

Qi has now been home three months and has started school. He seems to be doing very well and is enrolled in the ELL Class (English Language Learners). It is amazing to watch him as he does the school work that is given to him and to see how bright he is. I can see improvements daily in his language. He tells me "Bigga Bigga Hug" and "Gooda Gooda Moochie Mommy!" Qi is now saying several words together in a sentence is communicates very easily with the other family members who are not familiar with Mandarin. What a blessing this little boy is to us! We love him so much and have been blessed by finding our son. It is amazing how mysterious God can work sometimes. I would strongly encourage anyone to consider a waiting child.

Please click here to read the whole account of Qi's adoption success story. We are so proud of how well each of our Tuan Yuan Adoption Assistance Grant recipients are doing and we are grateful for every update we receive!

2008 has been a banner year for the Tuan Yuan Adoption Assistance Grant Program. We are excited to have had six Tuan Yuan grant recipients so far in 2008! Please help us bring special needs children into loving Forever Families by donating to this program

One of our basic beliefs at LWB is that every child deserves a family to call his or her very own. Since we began offering Tuan Yuan Adoption Assistance grants to children in 2004, we have helped 15 children find their Forever Families. Twelve of these children are treasured members of loving families, and three families are currently waiting to travel to bring their children home.

Tuan Yuan grants are offered to CHILDREN on China’s waiting children program to help make their dreams of a loving family a reality. When we see that a particular child needs extra help to find just the right family, whenever possible we offer that child a grant. It is our hope that a Tuan Yuan Adoption Assistance grant will give a child that little boost needed to be chosen by a loving family. Our Tuan Yuan program generally has the funding to provide 2-4 grants per year. We’re not the best known program at LWB, but even helping only a few children a year is forever meaningful to those precious children who become cherished members of loving families!

Please help us bring other special children into loving families! You can help by donating to this program. While supplies last, donations of $35 or more will be acknowledged with a silk purse and a gift card from Love Without Boundaries. The purses were purchased on Shamian Island by an adoptive family and donated to LWB exclusively to raise money for Tuan Yuan Adoption Assistance grants. Tuan Yuan means “bringing families together” and you can help us do that through a donation to this program!

What does it mean when you say that you give grants to CHILDREN but not to prospective parents?  By this we mean we offer grants to children who are in need of a little extra help being chosen by a family. The grant is attached to a specific child rather than to a particular agency or certain parents. The grant will cover a portion of the expenses associated with that child’s adoption. Generally we donate the funds toward the child’s orphanage fee after the family has traveled to China for the adoption.

Can I apply for a Tuan Yuan grant for a child I have chosen from China’s Waiting Child Program? While many grant programs are available for adoptive parents needing funds for their adoption process, the Tuan Yuan Adoption Assistance grants cannot be used for preidentified children. A child is eligible for a Tuan Yuan Adoption Assistance grant only if he or she is at risk of not being chosen by a family and is identified by LWB.

If I know of a child in China’s Waiting Child Program who is at risk of not being chosen by a family, can I bring him or her to the attention of the Tuan Yuan Adoption Assistance Coordinator? Absolutely! We don’t always have available funding for a Tuan Yuan Adoption Assistance grant, but our team is always glad to receive information on children who are at risk of having their files returned without being chosen by a family. Just as important as bringing children to our attention is promoting donations to our Tuan Yuan Adoption Assistance fund to ensure that funding is available when a child needs it.

If you have questions about this program, please contact our Tuan Yuan Adoption Assistance Grant Coordinator here.