A visit to the orphanage

Yangjiang, city in southeastern China, located in southwestern Guangdong Province, west of Jiangmen. The city is well situated at the mouth of the Moyang River on the South China Sea about 200 km (about 125 mi) southwest of Hong Kong. The city produces steel, leather products, and a number of traditional crafts products such as small knives and lacquerware. These traditional crafts products are exported to Japan and Europe. Agricultural products of the area include soybeans, peanuts, and tobacco. The city's port facilities connect it with other coastal communities.

This was the crib that Ava slept in for 8 months.

We made the long 3 1/2 hours trip to YangJiang orphange SWI. The orphanage was very clean and the kids seems to be well taken care of. It was an extremely sad day sad that so many babies were given up by their birthparents. The question will always linger in our daughters mnid as to why?!?!

The orphanage had about 40 cribs on the floor that Ava was on, the second floor had about 30 cribs (infants) there were about 3-7 toddlers with the babies in the same room. The orphanage is fairly new opened in 2005. The first 2 floors housed the elderly the building is government own.

This morning I came across this beautiful well said poem that brought tears to my eyes, this is for all mothers....

This morning in China a mother cries
She’ll never forget her daughter’s eyes
Her heart is broken and filled with pain
The tears run down like the falling rain.
She has no choice but to leave her there
The cost of keeping is too much to bear
She hopes her daughter will one day know
True love can be found in letting her go.
This morning in China a baby cries
Hungry and scared as tears fill her eyes
Her mother has left her in this public place
Another lost daughter of the Chinese race.
Someone passing by has heard her soft moan
She’s soon quickly taken to a orphanage
It’s here she’ll reside in the care of another
Until she’s adopted by a brand new mother.
That very same moment, in the U.S.A.
A woman cries as she starts to pray
Her heart is heavy but filled with much love
She prays for a daughter she thinks the world of.
"Dear Jesus I ask that your arms would be
wrapped tightly around the one picked for me
Guard her in China ‘till I make my way
And then in my arms forever she’ll stay."

~author unknown