Blue skies for China orphans

Singaporean Tania Hoahing-Goh, 40, was living in Beijing when she spotted a need for a foster home there that could take in orphans with health problems.
         Most people would have felt helpless or, at the most, asked the government authorities ti set up such a home.
         Not Mrs Hoahing-Goh.
         She simply decided to start one.
         Her basic philosophy was: Care for the children first, worry about the details later.
         Blue Sky Healing Home was started in 2004 and takes in orphans with complex medical conditions on a short-term basis, cares for them and then sends them back to their original orphanages when they are better.
         Mrs Hoahing-Goh's then-husband - they have since divorced - was working in China, which gave her the oppurtunity to volunteer in the orphanages there.
         Over the past seven years, the home she founded, which can accommodate 20 at a time, has helped moe than 120 childern, many with life-threatening medical conditions that required major surgery, such as cranial reconstruction so allow for brain growth.
         Recently, three children were flown to Singapore for surgery before heading back to Beijing.
         Mrs Hoahing-Goh work with docktor and hospitals in Singapore and Beijing to seek the best care for the orphans.
         The procedures they undergo here are sponsored by private donors and hospitals.
         On the home's beginnings, she recalls that she first rented  a house for $700 a mounth and paid staff of six about $100 to $500 each a mounth.
         It has now expanded to three houses with a staff of about 14.
         She used her own money to start up but says that onve she took the plunge, funds came in from the expatriate community in Beijing.
         Before starting her own home, she had been volunteering in Beijing orphanages, shuttling children around and accompanying them to their doctor's appointments.
        She says: "If we had spent a lot of time weighting the ricks and dangers of operating a foster home as foreigners, we probably would have ended our efforts at the first discovery of red tape and other bureaucratic difficulties.
        Mrs Hoahing-Goh's advice to those hoping to start an overseas NGO would be to "work with and hire local people who share the same passion and who are ideally not working just for the salary".
        "Put your heart and soul into cause," she says.

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