Over the years COCOA has been working with a few selected agencies dealing with some handpicked orphanages, where there has been increased co-operation between the orphanage staff and the people we fund.

Funds have gone directly to pay for the following:

• To sponsor babies and children in long term care or children awaiting adoption.
  
• To sponsor the cost of medical treatment for cleft palates, hare lips and clubfeet. This increases the likelihood of a child being adopted.
  
• To provide play and learning equipment
  
• To pay for necessities such as cots and bedding
  
• To provide a new orphanage with baby units and a special room for children with disabilities
  
• To pay for special needs such as replacing the roof of an orphanage destroyed in an earthquake
  
• To pay for staff training
• To buy essential winter clothing
• To supply equipment including special strollers, physiotherapy tables and wheelchairs for babies and children with special needs

Foster care schemes:

Cocoa is dedicated to supporting new foster scheme projects in China. Foster care is an ideal opportunity for abandoned babies and children to be brought out of institutionalised care into foster family life.

We are now contributing towards the following three projects:

• An established foster care scheme in North West China. The aim is to expand the already successful scheme to new orphanages in the area. Abandoned babies are placed with local childless couples who then go on to adopt their baby. The scheme also places disabled children with mature families where the mother does not work outside the home.
  
• We have provided enough money to fund 50 new children to enter an established foster scheme in the Yunnan Province.
• COCOA has spent £4,000 funding foster care projects in Kunming

Please go to 'latest news' to hear about new projects that we are fundraising towards.