XianYang Social Welfare Institute
Postal Code: 712000 Telephone No: 910-334-12315
Day 1:
Upon arrival in Xi'an, 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 1hr to Xianyang city, 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 Xi'an.
Day 3:
Breakfast. Today you will have a full day Xi'an sightseeing including Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, Ancient City Wall and Muslim Street.
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.
XianYang Social Welfare Institute:
Address: Xianhong Road, Weicheng District, Xianyang City
General Information:Xianyang has an area of 10,213 square km and a population of 4,800,000 inhabitants.
Has important historical sites such as the pagoda Qianfo, Xianyang ruins during the Qin Dynasty, the Changling, the Hanling, the tomb of Princess Chang Le ... These historical relics are valuable data for Chinese history.
This SWI was built in October 1974, under the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, in full public institutions; mainly responsible Xianyang City, 13 counties (districts) orphans, veterans of mental illness, the District adult "three no" object conservation, education, treatment rehabilitation tasks; hospital covers an area 24,000 square meters, construction area of 15,000 square meters; existing formal workers 96. Business Scope: 1, bear Xianyang "three noes" Object adoption services; 2, assume jurisdiction thirteen counties Futuijunren curing mental illness, treatment and rehabilitation services.
To visit this, you can take flight to Xian city first. Then we will drive you to Xianyang. The driving time will be 30 mins.
There are sme famous scenic spots: Qian Tomb, Dafo Temple and so on.
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
In the winter of 2007, already having a daughter after marriage, Lauren Kinas and husband adopted a over one-year-old Qin Tiantian from the Xianyang SWI, and took her back to America for bringing up. Fast forward 11 years, the little girl had blossom...
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