Visiting Rosie's orphanage. This is the Haikou SWI. Notice all the boys. They said that there are about 45% boys in their orphanage. Most of them are severe Special Needs. All the kids thronged us when we walked in. It was an extremely emotional morning and I am wiped out now. These are the children who will never be adopted. They were so sad; such sad little lives.
There were some girls too but they were young. I guess this is what's left. They came up to us to be picked up and to get hugs. They seemed to be mostly unattended. The younger children had nannies, but these guys had a playground attendent.
This is Rosie's nanny. We weren't too impressed with her. Some of the nannys seemed quite affectionate but not this one. Maybe it is just cultural, but she seemed so.....rough. In the end the nanny started crying and so did Rosie and I just wanted to get out of there. I hated going but did really want to see how Rosie lived, how she was taken care of etc. This is a Half The Sky orphanage - an amazing charity organization, so it is really clean and well equipped.
Babies sleeping room. The one with the turqoise quilt over the edge is Rosie's. When she saw this room she started crying.
This is the hospital nearby the orphange. Rosie was found here on July 1, 2005. She was left out in front and then taken to the orphanage. I guess they just estimated her date of birth as May 05.
Visiting Rosie's orphanage. This is the Haikou SWI. Notice all the boys. They said that there are about 45% boys in their orphanage. Most of them are severe Special Needs. All the kids thronged us when we walked in. It was an extremely emotional morning and I am wiped out now. These are the children who will never be adopted. They were so sad; such sad little lives.
There were some girls too but they were young. I guess this is what's left. They came up to us to be picked up and to get hugs. They seemed to be mostly unattended. The younger children had nannies, but these guys had a playground attendent.
This is Rosie's nanny. We weren't too impressed with her. Some of the nannys seemed quite affectionate but not this one. Maybe it is just cultural, but she seemed so.....rough. In the end the nanny started crying and so did Rosie and I just wanted to get out of there. I hated going but did really want to see how Rosie lived, how she was taken care of etc. This is a Half The Sky orphanage - an amazing charity organization, so it is really clean and well equipped.
Babies sleeping room. The one with the turqoise quilt over the edge is Rosie's. When she saw this room she started crying.
This is the hospital nearby the orphange. Rosie was found here on July 1, 2005. She was left out in front and then taken to the orphanage. I guess they just estimated her date of birth as May 05.
1 comment:
Holly, Rosie is absolutely beautiful. I can only imagine how she could convince Daddy to buy her the bear :)
I know it must have been hard visiting her orphanage. But, you are lucky you did get to see a little bit of your daughter's history.
Hope you guys continue to have a good time.
Patti
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