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Farewell to a Legacy of Love: LWB’s China Healing Home

Posted on April 2, 2024

Problems and solutions. So much of what we at LWB have done over the years has come about as a result of identifying a problem and finding a solution. This is exactly how our China Healing Homes program came to be 18 years ago, when our foundation was just a few years old. The Story […]

20 Years of Hope: Hercules

Posted on December 28, 2023

All this year, as we have celebrated 20 Years of Hope — LWB’s 20th anniversary — we have been sharing updates on some of the wonderful children this community has impacted over the last two decades. Today, we look back on a little boy from China who has become very close to our hearts over […]

20 Years of Hope: Emily

Posted on December 14, 2023

While visiting an orphanage in southern China in 2021, LWB’s CEO and founder Amy Eldridge encountered an unforgettable 16-month old girl we called Emily. In her book, “The Heart of Community,” Amy writes, She was lying flat on her back in an old metal crib, with a blanket covering her body. She was incredibly tiny. […]

20 Years of Hope: Ting

Posted on November 9, 2023

In 2018, we first met Ting as a participant in our Life Skills Camp in Beijing, China. Our Life Skills Program focuses on older children who will soon be “aging out” of orphanage care in China. At the age of 18, Ting joined other young people to receive lessons on personal finance, self-esteem, career counseling, […]

20 Years of Hope: Our 1st Cleft Exchange, Dr. Padilla, and Sydney & Reagan

Posted on October 5, 2023

In late 2003, when Love Without Boundaries was just a few months old as a foundation, we were approached by a medical team that wanted to set up a cleft surgery mission to China. We never in a million years would have attempted something as complex as sending a team of physicians to a foreign […]

20 Years of Hope: Twins Max and Matthew

Posted on July 20, 2023

In early September of 2010, a rural orphanage in Henan province called us about a tiny, five-pound baby who had recently been abandoned. Max, as he came to be called, had been found with a life-threatening intestinal condition that often requires surgery within the first 48 hours of life. We knew there was no way […]

Why Cleft Lip and Palate Need to be Repaired

Posted on June 27, 2023

Just one year after Love Without Boundaries was organized as a charity in 2003, we organized our very first cleft trip to China. During this first trip, over 50 babies and children born with cleft lip and palate were healed by a team of American medical professionals who generously donated their time and expertise. This LWB model […]

20 Years of Hope: Cui

Posted on June 22, 2023

In 1986, a tiny baby named Cui was born with a very wide bilateral cleft lip. As a result, her birth parents abandoned her in a rural field shortly after she came into the world. Thankfully, a man passing by that day found Cui bundled up near the dusty road. When he saw the tiny […]

20 Years of Hope: Liane

Posted on March 15, 2023

Born in 2013, Liane came to the attention of our China staff when she was one year old. She was living in a rural area of China with her grandparents while her parents sought work far away in a city. Liane had been born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate which greatly hampered her […]

20 Years of Hope: Elyse

Posted on March 2, 2023

Back in 2006, when our work in China was only a few years old, an orphanage in central China reached out to us for help. They had recently received a baby born with a myelomeningocele, a severe form of spina bifida in which the spinal cord and nerves develop outside of the body. In ideal […]

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