QingDao Children's Welfare Institute
Day 1:
Our guide and driver will pick up you when you arrive in Qingdao. 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 drive you to QingDao SWI, 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 drive you back to the hotel.
Day 3:
Today you will visit Laoshan, ZhanQiao, Zhongshan Road and Badaguan.
Day 4:
Our guide and driver will take you to the airport or train station. You will depart QingDao 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.
QingDao Children's Welfare Institute:
Address: No.19 Qing Da Yi Road,Qingdao City
General Information: Qingdao Children's Welfare Institute is also known as Blue Sky Home. In October 1998 to build the hospital , formerly known as the Children's Department of Qingdao City Social Welfare Institute . Qingdao Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau directly under the full allocation of financial institutions, now support more than 370 children , of whom 98% are children with disabilities . Charged with the city's abandoned baby adoption , foster care management, medical , nursing , rehabilitation , special education and other services.
There are two infrastructure agencies , the eastern city of Qingdao is located in Qingdao City Children's Welfare Institute headquarters, mountain sea, surrounded by greenery , quality fonts and unique architectural style connected to the third floor , apartment with meaning. It covers an area of 16 acres, constructed in May 1996 , May 30, 1997 completed and put into use , a total investment of over 500 million yuan, construction area of 3,400 square meters ; located in Jiaozhou Qingdao, Zhang town foster home blue Child labor therapy rehabilitation centers , covering 26.3 acres, building area of 18,000 square meters, a total investment of 30 million yuan, can meet 500 orphans and disabled children in rehabilitation, education, simple labor skills training and other activities , in December 2008 put to use. Two infrastructure , complementary functions , features vary, carefully built up disabled children live and grow in their homes.
To visit this SWI, you can take flight to Qiangdao. Then we can pick up you and drive you to visit it.
There are many hotels in Qingdao. You can choose any as your preference.
The most famous scenci spots are: Laoshan Mt. Badaguan and Zhan Bridge.
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