My Chinese Dream: Send Children Back Home
At Great Wall we value our close working relationship with our Orphanage Partnerships. Recently, we have been honored to have Director Tang Rongsheng of the Shenzhen City Social Welfare Institute share with us his respected perspective on his position working with the children of China. Through all the obstacles and unforeseen circumstances that can occur in an adoption we are lucky to know that we have Director Tang’s support, along with his deep love and affection for these children. In our partnership with Director Tang and the Shenzhen City Social Welfare Institute, we have helped around 100 children come home to their forever family.
Director Tang has been awarded and recognized for his heartwarming speech below. We are happy to share this speech with your family and hope that it touches you as much as it has our team here at Great Wall China Adoption.
My Chinese Dream: Send Children Back Home
By Tang Rongsheng
Director of Shenzhen Social Welfare Center
You can never feel the eagerness without looking at their eyes.
You can never know the urgency without hearing their pledge.
You can never imagine the power of love without walking into their life.
Four years ago, I was chosen to be part of the special children at the Shenzhen Social Welfare Center. The innocent eyes of those children are filled with eagerness and persistence, as well as bitterness and fearfulness, which urges me to re-explore the meaning of life.
Every time when the children call me “daddy Tang”, I feel a gust of happiness inside. Since then, I began to realize that I’ve been closely tied to them.
As an old Chinese saying goes, “Paternal love is as deep as sea.” In countless sleepless nights, I kept asking myself what I can do for those children. However, I am fully aware that “father” is meaningful only in the setting of a family where children come from and will eventually return to.
Hard work pays off in the end. A total of 240 children have returned “home” in the past four years, of whom 140 were adopted by foreign families. Behind every adopted child lies a touching story. Every successful adoption is a result of our persistence, devotion and hard work, which reflects the cross-border love and demonstrates the wisdom of Shenzhen people in promoting adoption.
As the only representative from a Chinese welfare institution, I gave a speech titled “Give Children a Home” at the annual adoption conference in Austin two years ago. Hundreds of American families were impressed and adopted, afterwards, more than a hundred children with disabilities from my center. For these children, a new, beautiful life has embraced them since then. And I was also happy to pass on the title of “father.”
Whenever a child is about to start a new life in a new family and says goodbye to me and whenever a child travel a long distance to visit the welfare center with his new family, I always feel joyful and meanwhile, have a strong attachment to them. At that moment, I feel that I’ve understood them by looking at their eyes, heard their inner voices, and experienced their feelings.
The adoption work is ordinary but complicated. To send children back home and to prioritize the interests of children are my working principles. For any individuals engaged in children’s welfare work, the benefits of children are always their core values.
I’ve been interviewed by the China’s Central Television for five times in the past two years. The Chinese authoritative media have the same hope that we, the frontline welfare workers, have–to help children rescued from human traffickers return home. I always believe that it will never be wrong to give every child a home.
I admire and appreciate those who have devoted time and energy, even a little, to orphans and children with disabilities.
I despise those who turn blind eyes to and make troubles to those children.
I am in deep love with the cause of children’s welfare because it’s filled with the aroma of love, it beats the passion of love and it enjoys the joy of love.
If you ask me what I have done in the past four years, my answer is : send children back home. If you ask me what is the happiest experience I’ve had, my answer is : send children back home. If you ask me what I will do in the future, the answer is the same: to send children back home.
To let every child in China have a cozy home is my Chinese Dream. It is also the Chinese Dream of all the staff at my center and the Chinese Dream of all kind-hearted people.
Thank you.
China
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My daughter was adopted from the Shenzhen Social Welfare Institute in 1998. She is now 16 years old. I am happy to report to Mr. Tang Rongsheng that she is a dream come true. Beautiful inside and out, she is an excellent student (She was recently inducted into the National Honor Society) and is taking all honors or advanced placement classes. She plays on the soccer team and the tennis team and she has earned a black belt in karate. She loves animals, loves to cook and bake and is now learning to drive a car. She is a junior in high school and we are looking at colleges. From the moment I held her in my arms I felt like the luckiest person on earth. Every day with her has been a joy. I cannot thank Mr. Tang Rongsheng enough for the gift of this perfect daughter. She is a beautiful representation of China.
Sincerest regards,
Jackie
PS After we adopted our daughter we returned on 3 occasions to adopt. We have a total of 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls.