Amanda DeLange, 51, runs a foster home for Chinese babies here in Xi'an. She has just adopted out babies #71 and 72. Although successes, it's emotional for her because she loves them and doesn't like the goodbyes.
Two weeks ago she took on seven additional babies with severe needs. Her cute volunteers who are here from Utah, Aubrey and Angie, and Marjalena from the Netherlands, were busy 24/7, literally keeping the new ones alive.
FYI, there are lots of rooms at Starfish: bedrooms with cribs, a kitchen, big play area, etc. The photo is the "crisis room" where the girls ended up with the little newcomers.
Amanda, a native of South Africa, began saving Chinese babies about seven years ago. She currently has over 55 in her care.
When we arrived to Home Teach, I helped little starving Noah. He was so malnourished that he couldn't yet drink milk. Roger fed Amy, a new arrival with a cleft palette.
Once the babies are stabilized, they go into the care of the Chinese nannies, some two dozen women hired to help care for them.
Amanda's foster home has received a lot of help but she constantly needs more volunteers. Volunteers simply need to be willing to pay their own way and they are welcome. She could especially use a good retired couple to give her back-up, provide handyman service, etc. She's organized as a non-profit based in Utah, and she has to do her own fundraising in order to keep the babies.
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