Story of the Month: Libby in Changzhi Foster Care

Last October our foster care program director and associate director visited an orphanage in Changzhi, having recently set up a foster care program in partnership with this orphanage. While visiting the children at the orphanage, they came across a tiny baby, just a few days old, who was jaundiced and had terribly infected feet. LWB's volunteers felt that she should be sent to the hospital, but the orphanage reported that she had already been seen. As our volunteers left, they continued to worry about this sweet new baby, made phone calls, and happily were able to find a placement for her in a special healing home in Beijing with a partner organization.

Baby Libby, as she is now called, was nursed back to health in the healing home. We were delighted to learn a couple of months later that, although she has a little scarring on her feet, she has not lost any toes and she was fit enough to be discharged back to foster care.

Just last month Libby returned to her home town and has been placed with a foster family. We are looking forward to watching her grow in the coming months and are thankful we were in the right place at the right time for baby Libby.