But while Finlay is awaiting surgery in Shanghai, life goes on back in the Butterfly Home. This week, all the babies are enjoying the return of Nurse Catherine. Catherine has volunteered at the Home before - twice ! Can you tell she has a soft spot for these babies?
Catherine is from England. She has a taste for adventure, a love of travelling and a servant's heart. Mix that up with a wealth of experience in paediatric nursing, and you have a whole lot of blessings for our babies.
Here Catherine is attending to dear Ben. He doesn't look too thrilled at this moment, but he is surely happy on the inside to have such skilled hands to treat his problems!
Volunteers are such an important part of our work here at The Butterfly Home. Some come for a few weeks, while others for much longer. Some go to extra-ordinary lengths to get here - we just have to make mention of Lana's arrival. She's volunteering with us for a year, and travelled by bicycle all the way from Hangzhou, raising funds along the way. That's dedication!
Whatever way they get here, volunteers bless us all with their time and talents. Precious people choosing to share their gifts with our fragile little babies - it doesn't get much more encouraging than that!. Of course, our need for medical expertise is always high - if you are a doctor, nurse or therapist, we suggest you hop right onto the next plane to China. (But contact us first, of course - so we can make the necessary arrangements!).
You'd also be surprised how helpful other skills can be to us. Can you do repair work, or paint a room? Can you take beautiful photographs? Can you organize a storeroom, or cuddle a baby? Can you file paperwork, or make scrapbooks? All you need is a flexible attitude and the ability to cope with just a little bit of the unknown. And the best bit is, that these babies will bless you just as much as you can bless them!
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