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November
2009 Homecoming in Fuling! Homecoming 2009 includes four days in Fuling. Families visit the original orphanage, spend quality time with babies at the new orphanage, and play in Fuling city, along the Yangtze River, and in the nearby countryside. They also tour in a fun and meaningful way highlights of Beijing. This special trip is offered, organized and hosted by the Bridge of Love Adoption Service and the Fuling Social Welfare Institute staff. |
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A caregiver welcomes back a Fulinger she cared for as a baby. |
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From
Beijing Fun to a "Welcome Home" in Fuling Children run together along the Great Wall and explore in the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace. They see the great cultural heritage in China's capital that is theirs before heading to Fuling. In Beijing they also visit the China Center for Adoption Affairs and the matching room, where families like theirs are made possible.
There is a special bond between children adopted from Fuling.
The trip is an opportunity for kids to experience their first home in
China with other children who were born in the Fuling surroundings and cared for by the same staff and at the same orphanage. Children learn and remember best by doing. In Beijing they will try paper folding or calligraphy after a visit to the CCAA. Visits to all the sites in Beijing will be informal and kid-oriented. In Fuling a teacher will give them a traditional Chinese dance lesson at the new orphanage, and the children can perform for the orphanage staff and their parents on the last day of the trip. Whenever possible, the children will be invited to taste, try and interact. The trip is meant to give children positive memories and a better understanding of what it means to be Chinese. |
 Returning Fulingers
Hold and Feed Babies at the New OrphanageChildren see where they lived as babies at the old orphanage. They meet their caregivers and, if it is possible to arrange, their foster parents. They can hold and feed babies and play freely in the colorful baby rooms and on the orphanage grounds. The orphanage staff and caregivers will be on hand to welcome and talk with the children and families, so children can learn what their first months or years in Fuling were like.
Along with spending time at the
orphanage, children and their families will have the chance to roller
skate and fly kites at the local park, eat at Fuling restaurants and
join in the favorite pastime of night dancing in the city square.
Since many of the children were likely born in the countryside, seeing
village life is an important part of the week. They spend a day
outside of the city in the mountainous, beautiful countryside and eat lunch in a village. Providing information for children is important to families.
Children will see the room in at the CCAA where parents and waiting
babies are matched and meet senior staff in charge of that important
work. Parents can arrange to see their child's complete and
original adoption file in Chongqing. If the child had a foster
parent, parents may request the opportunity to meet the foster parent.
Quality time at the orphanage is also meant to give parents and siblings a
window into their Fulinger's first months or years before they became a
family. |
Fuling Kids International is a not-for-profit association of families and friends devoted to our children from Fuling and their first home in China. Fu families live in the United States, Canada, Australia, China, Sweden, France, Spain, Ireland, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Iceland! Bridge of Love Adoption Service (BLAS) specializes in heritage tours for children adopted from China and will handle all travel plans and interpreting for families during the entire journey. Fuling Family Culture Camps are hosted and organized by BLAS and the Fuling SWI staff.
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Itinerary
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Costs* Adult: $916 each. Reserves half a hotel room, to be shared by another adult and/or child. Each hotel room has two beds or a king-sized bed. Child: $788.00 each. November: $766 each. Reserves half a hotel room or an extra rollaway bed. Child: $622.00 each. For child who shares a bed with an adult or another child. No rollaway bed requested. The price includes 4-star hotels in Beijing and Fuling with breakfast, airfares for Beijing-Chongqing-Beijing with airport tax, activities as per itinerary, lunch and dinner daily, bilingual guides, bus service, special souvenirs, etc. Price does not include transport from home country to Beijing. *If participating family is extending travel in China beyond Fuling portion and the Homecoming 2009 week, pricing will be adjusted individually for that travel. Please contact BLAS about pricing for continuing on to other destinations in China from Fuling or returning to your home country from a location other than Beijing. You can contact julianne@fulingkids.org for registration forms and the option to order online. A non-refundable down payment of $100 per person is required at registration. All remaining travel fees must be paid by October 30, 2009. If participant cancels after that date, payment will be refunded, minus cancellation fees.
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