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Our response to the tainted milk powder scandal.
Water, rice powder, and cow' s milk are not adequate foods for newborns. But for many children, having proper nutrition is a luxury they' ll never know and these foods are all they' ll ever have.
As our work with orphanages throughout China expanded, New Day Foster Home grew acutely aware of the critical need many orphanages have for the supplies of formula necessary to keep their children alive—especially in cities far from the economic prosperity and rapid development of Beijing and other cities on the eastern seaboard. Orphanages often cannot provide formula due to a lack of resources; or if they do purchase formula, it means other basic needs go unmet. Furthermore, many of the children living in Chinese orphanages have medical special needs which weaken them. When malnutrition is also present, daily survival becomes a difficult fight.
In response to the need, New Day Foster Home began the Formula Project in 2006. We provide formula to infants under one year of age in our four partner orphanages. All of the children in our program live with foster families. For two of the projects (Hohhot and Taiyuan), we visit each month to measure and weigh the children and monitor their progress. The other two projects are located further away (Jingdezhen and Leping), and we visit every other month.
We measure our success in seeing the lives of children like Jacob and Shu Shu turn around; children who would have died from malnutrition or malnutrition-related causes without intervention, but who now have a future and a hope.
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