Hu Jian Lun is just over 1 year old. I met this cute little guy at New Hope Foundation this summer. Due to his cleft lip and pallet, he had a feeding tube and arm braces to prevent him from pulling the tube out. PFO donors funded his $650 cleft pallet surgery. It costs a little more than before because we are working with a different organization and they must send the children as well as a nanny via train to the Operation Smile clinic. Our funds cover the cost of transportation for baby and nanny, as well as a hotel and food for the remainder of the child's stay in the hospital. In Hu Jian Lu's case, he went to the hospital 3 times for this surgery. Unfortunately, Operation Smile kept returning him due to various issues preventing him from having surgery. After a lengthy time in hospital, he has just returned 'home' a healthy baby with a beautiful new smile! Thank you all for helping take care of these babies. :)
Here is Hu Jian Lun before and after his recent cleft lip surgery! What a way to show God's love.
Sally,
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this video and little blurb about our son. We are the adoptive parents of Hu Jian Lun and are soooo grateful for all the people who have contributed money to your organization that was then used to give our son the wonderful lip repair surgery. The pictures on this post do not do the work justice.
This beautiful angel of a boy is now going by the name Kai (we kept the Jian Lun as his middle name)
If anyone wants to read up about our journey to go to China to bring him home (we are still in China), you can read all about it on
http://waitingforxiaohai.blogspot.com