Where they are...

Just wanted to share a little bit about where our boys are.

Our boys are in Zhengzhou China. Zhengzhou is the capital city in the province of Henan. Provinces are how China is broken up....comparable to states here.

Their province, Henan, is the most populous in all of China and is the home to more than a 100 million people. Their city Zhengzhou is home to more than 7 million.

Their weather seems pretty comparable to GA for as long as I have been looking. They also have been having the cold weather, warm weather, cold weather days just like we have.
Right now as I type this it is 10:53 am here. It is 10:53pm there. On Thursday March 19th
they are expected to have temp's with a low of 47 and a high of 65. On Thursday March 19th we are expected to have a low of 41 and a high of 72 .

There are 18 orphanages in their province.

There are more than 2000 children in the orphanages in this province.

Prior to 2007 fewer than 100 children per year were adopted from this province.

The agency we work with, CCAI, actually spearheaded an effort to educate the orphanage director's and workers on how to get the children ready for adoption. They were given permission to do this training and "Project Henan" began in June 2008.

If you are interested in more information about this project:

http://www.chinesechildren.org/Charity/Docs/ccai_charity_report_2008.pdf

(Then scroll down about 5 sections and you'll see the details.)

[I was able to find this by googling so I know it is ok to post. Normally our agency asks not to share private information that is available to families only. But since I came across it again while googling Henan China I figured it is available to all anyway!]

We can't wait to go!