Delivering Medical, Education and Humanitarian Aid Resources to Orphaned and Disadvantaged Children

Before we share an update on our work and plans in China, all of us at The Grace Children's Foundation wish to extend our care to the children and our deepest sympathy to the people of Japan.

Since our arrival in July 2010 we have been working on the logistics of opening and operating The Grace Children’s Foundation’s (TGCF) and TGCF’s Resource Exchange Center’s first international office in Beijing. As we make steady progress toward that goal we continue to work with our partners, the China Children and Teenager’s Fund and the All China Women’s Federation, to ensure that we abide by all government regulations to continue, sustain and expand operations in China.

The entity we are establishing here is the underpinning for replicating globally TGCF’s Resource Exchange Center and is enthusiastically received by all the professionals in the various business, academic and government forums we have either addressed or met with. They are optimistic because at its core this model of healing and learning supports a systematic method for the coordination and delivery of gratis resources to orphaned and disadvantaged children. They acknowledge the urgent need for a model such as TGCF’s Resource Exchange Center before any sustainable outcome takes place for children in need.

Another development is the launch of TGCF’s Youth Initiative (YI) and the “This Is Our Message” campaign. We are engaging Youth — grammar, middle and high schoolers, university students and young professionals — to help us toward our proposed launch date of April 16, 2011. We acknowledge that their voices are powerful and together we can change the outcomes for children in need. The YI will kick off with a UTUBE video, booklet and Youth Initiative short film. We are asking that the YI participants use their talents, imaginations and skills, combined with compassion for those less fortunate, in producing these media tools.

We are honored that Steve K. Lee, M.D. has joined TGCF’s Board of Directors and that Decun Qian has taken his post as TGCF’s Country Director, China.

TGCF’s Education/Vocation Program is developing a system to support young Chinese professionals in learning English, interpretation and business skills.

TGCF’s Medical Program is also at work. We wish to acknowledge the people and organizations that have come together on behalf of the children. These experiences have been examples of what can be accomplished through partnership, innovation, tenacity, compassion and the coordination and delivery of vital resources...connecting the need to the remedy.

The following profiles detail the journeys of some of the children we have worked with recently through
TGCF’s Resource Exchange Center.

Forums, Speaking Engagements and Panels:

• America China Bridge Event – Mary Buffet Investment Strategy for the New Century Seminar in October where TGCF was asked to serve as Advisor for the foundation arm of America China Bridge
• C200 meeting at Tsinghua University’s MBA Program where Nancy Robertson was invited to speak about TGCF’s brand
• Honored guest at the 2010 International Forum of Outstanding Women Entrepreneurs – China Association of Woman Entrepreneurs
• Panelist at the Western Academy of Beijing – Career Day NGO/Entrepreneurs

TGCF’s Resource Exchange Center, partners, non profit organizations, hosts and government agencies we have coordinated with for two of the children we have worked with while in China:

KEJI
• Wuzhou Children’s Welfare Institute, Guangxi Province, People’s Republic of China
• Alliance for Children Foundation, Needham, MA
• Annie Liu – TGCF China Advisor
• United States Embassy, Beijing, Peoples’ Republic of China
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection Immigration
• Chicago Hosts – Mayginnes family
• Children’s Hospital, Milwaukee, WI (surgery performed)
• Michael E. Mitchell, M.D. (pioneer bladder exstrophy procedure)
• Sky Hope – Business Aviation Support in Emergencies
• Tennessee Hosts – Burghart family
• Monroe Carell, Jr. Children’s Hospital, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
• John W. Brock, III, M.D.

GOLL
• Ann Rice, Army Nurse, Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan
• Chris Hills, D.O., Orthopedic Surgery, 31st CSH/Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan
• United States Marine Corps
• United States Army
• Joseph D. Zuckerman, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, President, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, TGCF, Medical Advisory Board, New York, NY
• Andrew Mack, Major/USMC, Orthopedic Surgeon, Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan
• Lisa Anderson – Lisa Anderson Ltd. | Relief Aid & Project Management
• Stephen P. Schroering, M.D., PLLC, Diplomat of Fellow American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery, Lehigh Acres, FL
• Rebecca Martin – Pediatric Oncology Nurse Practitioner, Orlando, FL
• Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando, FL
• Marchelle Sellers, Executive Director, Mending Kids International, Burbank, CA
• Michael J. Yaszemski, M.D., Ph.D., Orthopaedic Surgeon and Researcher, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
• CURE International Hospital Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan
• Erin Card, Vice President, Operations, CURE International Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan
• Rick Manning, M.D., Medical Director ,CURE International Hospital Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan
• Omer Malikzai, M.D., CURE International Hospital Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan
• M Kamal Tani, M.D., Surgical Attending, CURE International Hospital Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan

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