Yugan Orphanage

A family adopted from this orphanage in February 1998.  This was the first group that I'd been aware of that had adopted from this orphanage.   We're not sure why there haven't been more families.  It may be a small orphanage.  The adopting mom says "We did not ask whether they had done any previous international adoptions but the director appeared very knowledgeable so I would assume that they had.  We learned that YuGan is a small fishing village (by Chinese standards small is about 80,000 population) .  It is on the lake east of Nanchang.  We were told it was about 4-5 hours away from Nanchang so we did not get to visit.   Three of the girls in our travel group came from Yugan.  All the girls were with foster families.  They were healthy (only runny noses and slight coughs) and happy.  Our daughter is great.  She is healthy, happy and very sweet.  She is learning new words and new "tricks" every day.  We are amazed at how quickly she is catching up.  We got her on her 15 month birthday and she could not roll over or crawl.  She could sit but was a bit wobbly.  Within one week she could roll over and push up to sitting.  A week after coming home, she started to crawl.  She now cruises and pulls up to standing with no effort.  She can stand alone for about 15 seconds and can walk holding on to us with only one hand.  So we expect she'll be walking alone any day now.  She was the most advanced developmentally of the three girls.  One girl is one day older than she and one is one month younger.  They could not sit unassisted.  Lucy also showed the most personality and interacted with us and the other adults more that than the other two girls.  We're not sure if that is reflective of her personality or of the stimulation provided by the foster families." 

The above girl had the surname Yue as do the girls who have been referred to their new families since.  But later I heard of four girls adopted from Yugan in October of 1997 and they had the surname of Guo.

For additional comments from parents of children from Yugan see Yugan Families.

Yue Dian Dian	Yue Wei Wei	Yue Meng Xia	Your Child
Born 12/29/1998	Born 12/28/1998	Born 6/20/07	CLICK
Adopted 1/18/00	Adopted 1/18/00	Adopted 4/14/08	HERE

For an e-mail list of families that have adopted from Yugan and have some orphanages photos on file please visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yugan-kids

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