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Joyous Center Ushers in the Year of the Tiger
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Nearly 1,100 children and parents gathered at Colorado Community Church to ursher in the Chinese Year of the Tiger on February 6, 2010. This was the 15th annual Chinese New Year Celebration by CCAI's Joyous Chinese Cultural Center. JCCC students once again put on a beautiful Chinese cultural performance and won thunderous applauses and bravos. A huge thank-you to all the student performers, parents, JCCC teachers, as well as our wonderful JCCC Director Yu Li.
JCCC is the only agency run and supported Chinese cultural and educational center in the USA to serve the cultural and emotional needs of adopted Chinese children. For more information about JCCC, please visit www.joyouscenter.org.
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CCAI CEO Lily Talks to PBS Newshour on Haiti Adoption
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PBS Newhour correspondent Tom Bearden did a wonderful story on Haiti adoption on February 2. As one of Tom's guests, CCAI's CEO Lily Nie shared her view on adoption as well as child protection in time of crisis.
In Haiti's Aftermath, Interest in Adoption Spikes
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An Elementary Kid Raises Money for Haitian Orphans
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After seeing Haiti's earthquake devastation and the suffering the Haitian orphans were going through, Zoe Ovando, a second grader at Cottonwood Elementary School in Centennial, Colorado, wrote a letter to her school challenging everyone to make a donation to support Haitian orphans. Two weeks later, Zoe raised $398 and presented the money to CCAI's CEO Lily and Director of Adoption Judy.
Thank you Zoe and all your friends for reaching out to Haitian children.
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High School Students Taste Chinese New Year
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Seventy students from Hinkley High School had a very unique cultural experience on January 29, 2010 at CCAI's Joyous Chinese Cultural Center. They not only had the opportunity to hear from a Chinese expert on the tradition and meaning of Chinese New Year, learn some Chinese traditional dance moves, figure out the secret of Chinese paper-cutting, they also learned and made their own Chinese dumplings!
"This is the best field trip we have ever had!"
February 14 will the the beginning of a month-long Chinese New Year Celebration. The zodiac sign for 2010 is Tiger (then Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig, Rat, and Ox).
Please visit www.joyouscenter.org for more infromation on Joyous Chinese Cultural Center, the only and the largest adoption agency operated Chinese cultural center in the USA for adopted Chinese children and their families.
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Thirty-Two Haitian Orphans Arrive at Denver
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At 11:55 am (MST) on January 24, 2010, a United Airline Boeing 747 landed at Denver International Airport with 32 Haitian orphans who had been matched to their adoptive parents before the devastating earthquake on January 12. With the help from Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Colorado Department of Human Services, US Department of Homeland Security, the US Embassy in Haiti, the Haitian govenment, For His Glory, United Airlines, Wal-Mart, Denver Children’s Hopistal, and many others, these children have finally united with their forever families.
Our job is not over. There are many more orphanage children who are waiting desperately for their humanitarian parole visa to come to the United States and many adoptive families who are eagerly waiting for the date to finally unite with their children.
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CCAI Sends in Private Plane with Aid to Haiti
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At 1:59 pm Haiti time on January 18th, a private jet loaded with medicine, water, rice, beans, charcoal, and baby formula from CCAI landed at Port-au-Prince International Airport. Volunteers and staff from Maison des Enfants de Dieu (the orphanage CCAI is cooperating with to place adoptable children) were overjoyed to see us and all the urgently needed aid.
"We have received some media attention in the past 24 hours, but it did not result what we needed - water, food and medicine," the orphange's volunteers told Joshua, CCAI's president. We are on the verge of running out of everything today. So what you have delivered will save children's lives!" To view photos, please click here.
Thanks for our generous supporter who donated his private jet for this humanitarian trip and our wonderful donors who contributed to our Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund. Please visit www.haitiadoption.org for more information.
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Loops with Love
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Ava (8) and Luci (5) Lange received the CCAI-Henan Partnership flyer in the mail and was so moved by the photos of the babies waiting for adoption Together with their mom they launched a project - Loops with Love, to hand make looped pot holders to raise money for these children. They set a goal of 100+ pot holders and planned to sell them in the month of November to celebrate National Adoption Month.
The project fast became a rewarding and learning experience for Ava, Luci, as well as their friends and people in their church and community. A local toy store gave them a discount on the loops; their church did a special Sunday on Adoption, and their friends helped to make and sell the pot holders in their neighborhoods. They made and sold a total 145 pot holders and raised $1087.00. After talking with Xia, CCAI’s Charity Director, Eva and Luci decided to use the money to build a Milk Preparation Kitchen for Xuchang Orphanage in Henan Province.
A child can help change the life of another child. In return, it gives both a priceless gift. A huge thank-you to Ava, Lucy, their parents Diana and Bob, and everyone who supported the project of Loops with Love.
They made and sold a total 145 pot holders
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Holiday Greetings from CCAI Foster Families
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Every year, hundreds of orphanage children have the blessing to be sponsored for foster care through CCAI and our generous donors. These foster children are able to escape the institutionalized orphanage care and to live in a "normal" family environment where they are valued and loved by their foster parents and adored by their "siblings". Here at CCAI we strongly believe that foster care is better than orphanage care, and a permanent home is where a child truly belongs. For more information on how you can become a foster care sponsor, please contact us at charity@chinesechildren.org, or call 303-850-9998 ext 17.
To view the slide show please click here.
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