Welcome to China's Young Burn Survivors Blog

Well It seems Blogspot is being difficult. I am not able to type in "compose", but in HTML. so we will see how this goes.
China has MANY young children who have been burn injured. Through accidents, working in factories, through tragedies such as house fires. These special children are SURVIVORS, first... Yes many people will say "victim", but that is seeing the tragedy of the scars.   I see the children as SURVIVORS first.   The scars are simply where their skin did not heal as well as other areas. 

Some things to be aware of. ALL the CHILDREN featured on this page have scars. EVERY SINGLE ONE will have scars. I have learned in my own story/journey, people tend to "fear" what they do not understand. Scars can be on the surface (on the skin) or inside (emotional). I have some of both. People see the outside first. I want everyone to see the INSIDE where you all can see how the children here have SURVIVED.

Their first families often cannot afford the treatments for burn injuries. Their first families do the best they can and know how to do. Many times it's not enough. Burns are allowed to heal naturally so the scarring may be worse. Fingers contract, and are bent as they heal. Faces are changed, hair lost. Joints that should move, don't. Contractures can be painful. Grafting surgeries and therapies can help.

All the children need is a family to see past the scars and see the little boy or girl inside. Each child wants to be loved, cared for and have a family. Most go through burn injuries alone. No mom to hold them when they hurt. No dad to pick them up and gently place them on the potty. No aunts to teach them silly tongue tricks to get the kids to laugh or make silly faces trying to divert the child's attention from a glowing red toe BP monitor. No uncles to bring them an "Elmo". No gramma's to make their favorite food. The kids are ALONE.

It is my hope and prayer, friends and families will SEE the children I feature here and follow up on becoming that child's FAMILY! I am still working out the "bugs" on how to blog and post. Hoping this gets solved soon.