WenZhou Children's Welfare Institute
Address: No,7 Fei Peng Xiang, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province Postal Code: 325000 Telephone No: 577 8829-0045
Day 1:
Our guide and driver will pick up you when you arrive in HangZhou. Then we will drive you to the hotel. You will stay in the hotel to have a rest.
Day 2:
Our guide will pick up you in the morning. Then we will take bullet train to WenZhou SWI (about 2 hours), we will start our visiting: meet the children and director of the orphanage, have a brief understanding about the condition of the orphanage, check the file of your child. We will have a lunch with the staff in the orphange. After that, we will visit the finding site of your child, meet the foster family if possible. Then we will take bulet train to HangZhou.
Day 3:
Today you will visit the HangZhou sightseeing: West Lake, Linyi Temple.
Day 4:
Our guide and driver will take you to the airport or train station. You will depart HangZhou today.
Prior to your orphanage visit application submission, please make sure you have the following documents ready:
A copy of each visitor's passports
A copy of the adoption certificate or the notarized adoption documents
An orphanage visit application letter
We all know that it is important to return to China. Apart from visiting the orphanage, children may focus more on traveling itself. Therefore, if adoptive families want to explore more tourist cities in China, please feel free to tell us. And we will customize a heritage tour of lifetime for you.
WenZhou City Children’s Welfare Institute:
Address:No,7 Fei Peng Xiang, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province
Localización:The orphanage is located in Wenzhou city of Wenzhou , about 3 ½ hours by train from Hangzhou , capital of Zhejiang Province .
Information about Wenzhou :Wenzhou has a total area of 11,784 square kilometers and has a population of 1,423,000 inhabitants ( more than 20% of the population is Christian religion ) .
It has a temperate climate with an average temperature of 18 º C.
Located on the coast of the South China Sea , the city has over 350 miles of shoreline.
The city is experiencing a real boom. Exports food , tea, wood and paper. Its main industries are food , paper , construction materials and agricultural machinery. Foodstuffs produced in Wenzhou are mainly tea and wine.
The people of Wenzhou Wu speak the language , a dialect of Chinese citizens like Hangzhou and Shanghai.
General Information:There is a very high percentage of children with special needs.
The orphanage gives home to children (about 300) and also the elderly.
Love Without Boundaries has assisted in this orphanage .
If you want to visit this SWI, you can arrive in Wenzhou by flight firstly, and then we can arrange our guide and driver to pick you up and take you to there.
Director of the orphanage :(no data)
Surnames of children :Hu
Top-rated hotels: Shangri-La Hotel Wenzhou, Overseas Chinese Hotel Wenzhou, Dynasty Hotel Jin Jiang
Top-rated attractions: Nanxi River, Yandang Mountain, Feiyun lake, Nanji Island, Jiangxin Island
We will be based in Wenzhou and would like to visit the orphanage , staff and see the records as described in your promotion however we want to do a tour of Wenzhou and surrounds, not Hangzhou. Can you tell me if you can do this. Thank you
Asked by Karin (Jul.20, 2017)
Tour consultant (Jul.20, 2017) replied:
Hi Karin, thanks for your inquiry. We can arrange it like this. We also just sent you an email about this.
Depending on the size of the SWI and how often visitors return, a visit could can be a highly anticipated event by the staff, or a routine, minor inconvenience to the day to day running of the institution.
You will want to discuss this aspect of reality with your child and prepare her or him for what it might be like, based on what you know. It is good to talk to your child about what to expect and then what to do if things turn out differently than you expect. It is important to develop an attitude of flexibility and focus on enjoying the experience rather than to get set on things going a certain way, since things don’t always go exactly as planned on any trip or daily life experience. A small gift is always appropriate for the effort expended by the director and or staff to accommodate the visiting family.
Since it may be several years after an adoption, it’s not unusual that the orphanage moved to a new place. Remember it’s normal, natural, time will not stand still, just as your children changed dramatically from she/he was a baby when just there.
If you are interested in visit both of the orphanages, we are happy to facilitate it, you can follow the previous footprint to recall your excitement when you look at your children at first time.
We usually arrange visiting the finding site for families if have the Notarial Certificate of the finding place. The finding site usually is at the front of hospital/orphanage/government agencies, etc. Please note that there places may be changed also.
Since visiting the finding site is the most emotional part of the trip, it’s a personal decision for each family and only you can make the decision if you want to accomplish it.
We always arrange the meeting with the previous caregiver/ foster family. If you have the information of the previous caregiver, we will try our best to find her. Please do remember that it’ll be some years after your adoption, the caregiver may be moved away or be retired. If the caregiver is still working in the orphanage, the director will happy to facilitate the connection.
Also please note that the caregiver may take care of more than one hundred babies in the orphanage, so that she may not remember your child well.
If your family is interested or inclined to invite the orphanage director to lunch, it is proper to invite others in the meeting as well. This would usually be one or two of the directors' assistants. If you want to invite the caregiver or nanny, then you should extend that invitation through the director to show the proper respect that the position merits. Your guide will handle this for you, but inviting the staff through the director follows proper etiquette for the situation. Some of the orphanages offer the free lunch while the others request about USD90-USD150 for the extra charge. You may ask our trip consultant before you travel.
When visiting an orphanage, it is appropriate to prepare some gifts for the director/staff and the children. You can invite the director, the staff or the caregiver to have lunch together or prepare fruit basket for them, for their effort expended to accommodate the visiting family.
As for the gifts to kids, you can prepare some snacks, candy, books, school backpacks, toys and so on. Usually, you can buy them when arrival at the orphanage place, the guide can escort you.
If you want to donate something more valuable and not sure what is needed for the orphanage, you can first learn it from the director and then purchase them from the local market. Some SWI will issue a donation certificate to you but not every SWI will do this.
With years of experience working with children in orphanages all over China, Lead to China is uniquely qualified to offer a special homeland experience for you. You will:
- Visit the orphanage, foster family and finding site
- Learn about birth country culture
- Get the first hand price from local agency
Travel Stories of This Orphanage
On the morning of July 4th, Aaselia came to Wenzhou Children's Welfare Institute for a return visit with her family. This is the first time Aaselia has set foot on her hometown since she left Wenzhou in 2009.In the morning, the Aaselia family arr...
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