Because of my strong belief that we should all do something to help those less fortunae than us, I have started a new category on my blog titled "Opportunties to Do Good". I have moved over a few of my old posts to this category and am adding this new one today. If anyone has a suggestion for me to write about in this category, feel free to leave me a comment or email me at transracialadoptblog@adoptionmail.com

Here is a great opportunity to do some good. Love Without Boundaries is an awesome organization that provides humanitarian aid to orphans in China.

Love Without Boundaries helps find sponsors, raises funds and sends medical teams to China to help provide heart surgery, cleft palate and cleft lip reparative surgery and other medical interventions that children are in need of. Along with the medical end of their work, they have a nutrition program, where they supply high-quality rice and formula to nine orphanages, they provide special baby bottles for children with cleft palates, they have a foster care program that gets children out of institutions and into family settings until they can be adopted, they have an education program that supports Chinese children from preschool all the way through college and they provide adoption grants for waiting Chinese orphans.

The motto for Love Without Boundaries is “Every Child Counts”, and all of the people that work for Love Without Boundaries are volunteers, many of which are parents that have adopted from China. They maintain a very low overhead, so that every penny that possibly can, can go directly towards helping the children of China.

For some gorgeous and extremely heart-touching photos of the work that Love Without Boundaries does, you can check out their “Top Ten Photos of 2005” page.

You can also read some wonderful stories on the “Stories” page and on the LWB Blog. Get a tissue first!

From May 17 until May 22, LWB will be holding their third annual “Born in my Heart Art Auction”, to raise money for heart surgeries for Chinese orphans. Over 600 unique items are available for auction, including orphan art, paintings, photographs, sculptures, Chinese collectibles, celebrity merchandise, collectable dolls, arts and crafts, books, toys, dolls, jewelry, music, specialty baskets, quilts and scrapbooks. There are lots of great items for families with Chinese children and for many transracial families.

For more information and the link to the Ebay store for LBW, you can visit their Gift of Healing page.