We welcome you the Waiting Child page of Children's House International's China Program. Here you will find the information about specific, precious little children who wait in Chinese Social Welfare Institutions for their families. These children have medical conditions which will require some extra sacrifice on the part of their forever parents. As the parent of 12 special needs children, the last two of whom were adopted on March 27, 2012, I can promise that the sweet spirit these children bring into their families truly allows them to be called "special" children. The overwhelming majority of these children have medical conditions which can be corrected with surgery and/or rehabilitation therapy. However, these are needs that are viewed as significant in their home country. We at CHI take the responsibility to advocate for each of these children and find their families very seriously. Please, open your hearts and your minds to the potential of these children and as you look in their sweet faces, perhaps you will see the eyes of your own child peering back at you.

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TO VIEW THE PHOTOS, MEDICAL REPORTS, AND GROWTH REPORT INFORMATION of the children that we are currently facilitating adoption for, please click on the "photos" link on the left side of this page and then click on the most current group of children we have been entrusted. For the medical and growth report information please email Heidi Hawkins at heidigoestochina@msn.com and she will send that to you directly.

"In my life, I was the one with the special need and my child was the one that filled it. How was I so incredibly lucky to be given this child?"

Stefani Ellison,
China Program Coordinator,
Children's House International