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Program #1: China Assist
- Supply basic orphanage needs (baby formula, rice, first aid supplies, blankets, space heaters, etc.)
- Bi-monthly visits to Shanghai Huge Grace Disabled Childre's Welfare Centre
- Build relations with orphanages in China to help foster and facilitate future international adoptions
Program #2: China Connect
- Build relationships with orphanages in China to help foster and facilitate future international adoptions
- Leverage established contacts in the international adoption agency community in the United States to help "connect" China's "special needs" children to these "waiting families"
Program #3: China Young Professionals Centre
IAR has partnered with the Shanghai Children's Home to build a "Young Professionals Centre". This centre will include:
- Computers for homework use
- Computers for keyboarding training
- Work stations
- 30 chairs for tutorial sessions
- Professional tutors teaching keyboarding, record-keeping and phone skills
- The goal of this program to is connect the older orphans with professionals and professional training (so they can create a bright adult future)
Program #4: China Interns
- Partnered with the American Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club Shanghai on behalf of the older orphans at the Shanghai Children's Home
- Leverage the skills the children have learned in the IAR's "Young Professionals Centre" program into the work environment
- Coordinate mentor programs and internships placing older orphans (after graduation) into business environments for job training and professional development
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