YingTan City Social Welfare Institute
Postal Code: 335000 Telephone No: N/A
Day 1:
Upon arrival in Nanchang (the capital city of Jiangxi Province), you will be met in the arrival areas 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.
Day 2:
You will be picked up at the hotel lobby and transferred to Yingtan City SWI (about 2.5 hours driving). Your orphanage visitation typically includes a meeting with the orphanage director and staff, see Children's playroom and the files, the institute will send you some souvenirs. You will have a lunch with them. Then take you to finding site of your child. Finally, transfer you to your hotel.
Day 3:
Today you will have half day tour of Nanchang. The recommended scenic spots are Prince Teng Pavilion, Bada shanren and Aixi Lake. Or you can arrange your private activities this day.
Day 4:
You will be transferred to airport or railway station to leave. Tour ends here.
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.
YingTan City Social Welfare Institute:
Address: Gang Shang Jiang Jia, Xia Bu Town, Yingtan City, Jiangxi Province
Location:The orphanage is located in Yingtan Yingtan City, about 3 hours drive from Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi Province.
Yingtan Information:
Yingtan is a city located in the Xin River. There is a ferry with which you can cross the river.Until now it was a small town, but it has recently increased due to a crossing of ferocarril.It has a population of 1,076,000 inhabitants and an area of 3,554 square km. Stresses the Han ethnicity.It is a land of red sandstone.There is a small zoo.The old town is very interesting and there you can still see some of the wooden buildings. They can also visit some trenches.It is an area where there was a little action during the civil war and the Japanese occupation.
General Information:The orphanage was established in 1981.In June 2001 the children moved into a new orphanage.It was a 4-sided building with a central courtyard.Daba home children and the elderly, who had their rooms on the ground floor near the children , so there was interaction between them.There was also a special room for disabled children.In late 2010 the children and staff moved to new and existing orphanage, which is composed of 2 buildings. One younger children live and the other older.Each building has a game room on the first floor.
There are 39 staff people and 80 children (some 26 have a disability). There are also 18 children in foster care by Altrusa Foundation.Alliance For Children has worked with the orphanage.
Director of the orphanage:Before Yu Xiao Zhen was. She is currently Xiaozhen (余小贞)
Surnames of children:Fu (府)
Several hotels in Yingtan City.
Scenic Spots in Yingtan:
Longhu Mountain: Longhu (Dragon and Tiger) Mountain is a famous Taoism site, and a well-known attraction collecting the essence of the sceneries of Yingtan. Famous for the Taoist culture, enigma of cliff-hanging coffins, the Luxi River and Danxia scenery, this mountain resorts mountains several scenic spots, and the Luxi River, like a jade belt, strings them together.
Some fascinating scenic spots:
Fairy Water Rock: Consisting of 24 rock peaks, the Fairy Water Rock has numerous hang coffin groups scattered in caves on the precipitous crags. These cave tombs can be traced back to 2,600 year ago, leaving behind many enigmas to be exposed.
Shangqing Ancient Village: With a thousand years of history, the ancient village is built along river surrounded by mountains. The two kilometers (1.2 miles) long old street is dotted by many sightseeings, including the Shangqing Palace and the Mansion of Celestial Master. Apart from these Taoism buildings, visitors can also admire the suspending buildings and wharfs of the locals.
Bamboo raft is the principal way of touring Longhu Mountain. So the best time to visiting the mountain by water is during April to October. If traveling along the overland route, visitors can get there at any season during a year.
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
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