Chengdu Children’s Welfare Institute is a subordinate branch of Chengdu Civil Affairs Bureau. It is an institution caring for orphaned children, abandoned babies, homeless and handicapped children, it also have medical care, rehab and recovery, special education and nursing care. It is an all inclusive social welfare institution. The historical establishment of Chengdu Children’s Welfare Institute can be traced back to Foreign Church Union’s “Baby hospital”, “Baby care Unit”, and “Orphanage”.

Since 1951, government has funded large sums of investments for numerous reconstruction and renovation; continuous expansion over the past has raised the standards of a variety of facilities. In April, 2003, our new institute, located in west suburbia of Chengdu, in Xi Pu County, and about 5 kilometers away from Downtown Chengdu, was unveiled. With an investment of 20 million RMB, our institute has a total area of 35 hectares, with floor space of 11 000 square meters. The institute is designed with ponds and gazebos, patios, lawns, surrounding with trees and other garden landscapes, creating a novel style and providing children with an ideal place for living, learning, and recuperating. Currently, there are nearly 500 children ranging from new-born to 14 years old taken care of by our institute. There are over 500 beds, and with more than 100 staff members from clinical, nursing, physio-training, special education, and management departments, we are one of the largest children’s welfare institutions in the Southwest region in China.

Chengdu’s Children Welfare Institute is leading towards the direction of “raise, teach, and cure”. Healthy school age children are all sent to nearby elementary and high school to attend classes, while pre-school children receives nursery and kindergarten education training within the institute. Children with mild to moderate disabilities will go through physio-therapy training and special education. Severely disabled children will receive special care and medical treatments. Suiting to different levels of needs and care, our institute has implemented 5 types of care including: institute care, individual adoption, community sponsored care, and branch institution substitute care. In order to help the children with disabilities and deformities to relive the joy and warmth from family, our institute has promoted family mentor program, in which we hire qualified parents and place 8 children in each family, allowing these children to have a healthy and normal growth, helping them to develop their individuality as opposed to institutionalization of a child. As a result, the children will have a good base for their future development and we will fulfill our underlying principle of “the well-being of individual comes first”.

Our institute’s Disability Children Rehab and Training Center, is one of UNICEIF’s “phase 3 project cooperative units”. Our center has a team of expertise and technical staff who underwent domestic and overseas professional training, supplemented with our country’s best physio-therapy training equipments. We take community action to help children with cerebral palsy, mental disability, deaf and mute, and to provide these children with physical, mental, and language training.

In order to promote the development of children’s welfare, Chengdu Children’s Welfare Institute will continue to work hard on our commitment to “All for Children, and For Children’s All” by contributing all our efforts to create a better tomorrow for the orphans and children with disabilities and deformities.