This month, we are featuring Jia, a 12-year-old girl
from Little Flower’s Group Home #5. She arrived at Little Flower in April 2014
and has been diagnosed with a lower extremity impairment.
Our Group Homes are a place for school age disabled
orphans to grow up in a loving family environment and Jia figured this out
quickly. Within days of her arrival, Jia started calling her foster-father ‘Baba.’
In the photo below you can see Jia and her foster dad are enjoying some quality
father-daughter time together:
Jia is the oldest of five children in her group
foster home. As the oldest child, Jia helps her foster mom around the
house and with the younger kids as well. On weekends when she is not at
school, Jia even helps her mom change the younger sibling’s diapers, all
without being asked!
Before Jia came to Little Flower (just before she
turned 11) she had never attended school. Now Jia attends the Chunmiao
Learning Center. Her foster mom remembers the day she came home and wrote
her name on a piece of paper. Jia was so proud of her accomplishment and so was
her mother! Every day after school, Jia loves to tell her foster mom
about everything that happened at school. She follows her mom around the house
recounting what every teacher said and what she learned. Here are some of
her accomplishments from school:
Jia is almost 13 now, and it has been wonderful to
watch her blossom in her foster family. Like most girls her age, she
loves wearing new clothes and dressing up. When she was in the orphanage
she had to keep her hair cut short, but now it’s grown much longer and she
loves to have her mother fix it in braids and other fancy styles. We are
so glad that Jia is part of our group home project, growing strong, healthy and
more beautiful every day, able to attend school, and most important, knowing
the love of a family.
