Day 8 - Huazhou

Sunday morning we were picked up at the hotel by Elsa, who works at the Zhanjiang orphanage and can speak english and the Deputy Director of the Huazhou orphanage. When Briley was adopted she was actually brought to the White Swan Hotel in Ghuanzhou so we have never been to Briley's orphanage. The reason we have access to the orphanage now is because our trip is being sponsored by the government agency BLAS (Bridge of Love Adoption Service) . BLAS previously only did the document translations from English to Chinese but now they are also organizing these trips. Without the government sponsorship it would be very difficult to have the access we got on this trip.

The road from Zhanjiang to Huazhou was very lush with fields of banana plants, sugar cane and orange trees.


The city of Huazhou which we where told had about 200,000 people.



Here is the entrance to Briley's orphanage. This orphanage is smaller than the one in Zhanjiang and has about 66 kids (61 babies and toddlers and only 5 school age kids). Also the orphanage has not had as much support as the other one and could use many items such as toys for the kids, crib mattresses, and school supplies.

We got to view Briley's adoption paperwork. This contained all of our applications in English and Chinese plus the info they had on Briley. She was found on the steps of the Justice building in town when she was only one day old.

We showed the director Briley's gymnastics video and they were extremely impressed and wanted a copy so I put a copy of the video on the directors computer.

We visited the baby rooms and as you can see they need toys and items for the babies.

We took a drive to the location where Briley was found at the justice building.

We purchased a water purifier for the orphanage.

Here are some other random pictures that I took today.




Sugar Cane Transport.

Fresh Fruit. The red fruit is called Dragon Fruit.

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