XiangYang County Social Welfare Institute

 Address: 20 Ren Min Road, Shuang Gou Zhen, Xiangyang County, Hubei    
    Postal Code: 441111      Telephone No: N/A

Day 1:

Upon arrival in Wuhan, you will be met in the arrivals area by your local guide holding a flag of "Lead to China". After a warm welcome and brief introduction, take a private transfer to your hotel for assistance with check-in. If needed, the guide will take you to purchase gifts to the orphanage, he or she will recommend you some good restaurants and places to relax.

Day 2:

Your guide will meet you at the hotel lobby. Drive about 3hrs to the Xiangyang, visit your child's home orphanage and meet with people related to your child's adoption. If you desire, host a lunch or dinner for the orphanage director and staff. Explore the local area with your guide. If needed, locate and visit the place where your child was found or visit your child's former foster family (if applicable and pending special permission). Our guide will escort you back to Wuhan.

Day 3:

Breakfast. Today you will have a full day Wuhan sightseeing including Yellow Crane Tower, East Lake scenic area and Hubei Provincial Museum etc.

Day 4:

After the breakfast, our guide will transfer you to airport/railway station.

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.


XiangYang County Social Welfare Institute:
Address:20 Ren Min Road, Shuang Gou Zhen, Xiangyang County, Hubei Province.
General Information:The orphanage is located in Xiangyang Xiangyang County, about 2 hours by train from Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province.
Xiangyang has an area of 19,700 square km and a population of 5,820,000 inhabitants.
It was the location of major battles during the period of the Three Kingdoms.
If you want to visit this SWI, you can arrive in Wuhan by flight or train firstly, and then take a train to Xiangyangh. We can arrange our guide and driver to pick you up and drive to this SWI.  
Top-rated hotels: Crowne Plaza Hotel Xiangyang, City Celebrity Hotel, Vienna Hotel Xiangfan Zhongyuan Road.
Top-rated attractions:Xiangyang Ancient City Wall, Gulongzhong Scenic Resort, The drum and bell Tower.

Hi my name is Ming Hol. I was raised by the Social Welfare Institute of the city Xianyang. This year September i am visiting China with my parents. First, we are going to Beijing and after we are planning to visit Xi'an and Xianyang. I'm not sure if you can help me with this, but if possible i would like to visit the Social Welfare Institute of the city Xianyang.
Asked by Ming Hol (Jul.07, 2024)

China tour Consultant-James (Jul.07, 2024) replied:
Hi Ming, it\'s no problem for us to arrange visiting the Social Welfare Institute of the city Xiangyang

Hello, my name is Hannah Roest. I think it was the Xiangyang orphanage, but they had given me the name Guo Si Yao. I was wondering if you guys still had my had my file. I was given up by my parents after my birth and I wish to have my information so I can have some idea to find them. I have papers that the orphanage had given my adopted parents, but I want to see from the paperwork from you guys if you had more information on me or anyhing about my parents who had given me up.
Asked by Hannah Roest (Oct.23, 2017)

Tour consultant (Oct.23, 2017) replied:
Hi Hannah, thanks for your inquiry from us. But other than the files you have, I'm afraid there's no extra file about your biological parents.

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Revisiting the orphanage is the important aspect of your homeland heritage trip, what do we need to prepare for this part? Here are some tips for your reference:

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.

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