As a Half the Sky medical sponsor for over 6 years, Imperial Tours has had the amazing opportunity to provide life-changing treatment and nurturing care for China’s most vulnerable children. We would like to share with you the inspirational stories of four adorable orphaned children in Half the Sky’s China Care Home Spring 2014 Newsletter. After undergoing critical medical treatment and months of post-operative recovery and care, XingSai and HaiXia have been given a clean bill of health and now have a better chance of finding permanent and loving homes. Meanwhile, XiaoLan and JiaYan await further surgeries. We truly hope their treatment and recovery goes smoothly, and that very soon they too will be able to return to their institutions happy and healthy.

To learn more about the incredible work of Half the Sky, please visit www.halfthesky.org.

Nadia Lim originally joined Imperial Tours in 2004 as our “China Host to the stars” but left in 2007 to complete her graduate degree at NYU and raise a family. She is Thai Swiss Chinese and speaks Thai, English, Chinese and Romansch. Imperial was thrilled when she rejoined the company in 2011 as an Itinerary Designer in our Beijing office. Nadia spearheads our social corporate responsibility program.

Publication: Half the Sky
Issue: Ppring 2014

This report is reproduced here as part of Imperial Tours’ media and publication archive.

Our China Care Children
Progress Reports: Spring 2014

We are pleased to provide you with these stories and photos about the incredible progress of the medically fragile children at our China Care Home. Thanks to your help, the children are receiving stellar, often lifesaving, medical care and patient, loving, nurturing as well.

We think you’ll be especially pleased to read the “Exit Progress Reports” for children who have completed treatment — it is so gratifying when infants and toddlers we welcomed at The Home — so weak and so sick — are given a clean bill of health so they can move on with their lives and soon find a permanent family.

Again, our deepest thanks for enabling us to help these children who have so much potential once they are given the medical care and love they desperately need.

Exit Progress Report – XingSai

XingSai was two years old when he came to the China Care Home in September 2013. It was his second time at the China Care Home. XingSai was born with a cleft lip and palate and underwent lip repair surgery in February 2012. This time, he was being admitted for his cleft palate surgery.

XingSai’s physical condition was good enough for him to undergo the surgery so he was admitted to the hospital two days after his arrival. The surgery was successfully done on September 11, 2013. After he came back from the hospital, he stayed at the China Care Home for another three months.