Visiting Sichuan with Major Donor, Dandelion Project

On September 20th to the 23rd, I was in Sichuan to visit with a Children's Hope donor, Dandelion Project. Shifang Maternity Hospital received their donated delivery bed, operating room lights and other equipment in God's time as they had just moved into their new temporary housing.

Lucy Qian from Dandelion shared some pictures from our visit, below:


Myself - Melody Zhang from CHI, Lucy Qian from Dandelion and the executives of Maternal and Child Health Hospital (MCHH) of Shifang City with CHI volunteers and hospital staff



An operation was going on when we visited the Maternal and Child Health Hospital. Dandelion's donated advanced anesthetizer was being put to great use.



The doctor here said, “The Dandelion donated anesthetizer is wonderful; our old machine can not even compare!”

The Dandelion Project is a grassroots group of professional women in China who network and raise funds in order to sponsor Chinese charities. The group gave a portion of the proceeddsraised from the their MCM Fashion Show, May 17, to the earthquake victims in Sichuan through Children's Hope.

Through Children’s Hope, Dandelion has donated medical equipment and 1000 Summer Relief Loving Packages (with healthcare, clothing & household stuff) to the earthquake victims in need, all of which has a total value of approximately 400,000 yuan.

MCHH, in temporary house now, has began construction on its new hospital ward, to be completed in 2010.

During this visit, members of the Dandelion project joined me in visiting the families who lost their beloved in a Shifang temporary housing area, too.