I have volunteered with LWB since 2017 (after my son's adoption), and joined the Board of Directors in 2024. My son received services from LWB through a "Believe In Me" school before his adoption. Having worked on multiple programs, including traveling several times to see the children who benefitted from LWB medical, healing home, and foster care programs, my experience has 100% of the time been that LWB is a very committed and thoughtful group of people who put the children and families first.
WOW. It is fantastic to see an organization working tirelessly and selflessly for children worldwide, particularly those who are nutritionally vulnerable, medically fragile, need education, and, perhaps most importantly, need a loving and stable family. This organization is transparent and puts a vast percentage of funds directly into programs for children and families. The majority of the workforce is volunteers. I highly recommend their sponsorship programs, as you receive individual reports and new photos of the sponsored child each month. LWB is always looking for ways to help more children. They never stop working, doing, and accomplishing!
Our family has been supporters of Love Without Boundaries for more than 15 years. I have seen first hand how every dollar goes to support their mission of bringing hope and healing to children, families and entire communities around the world. I was personally so inspired by the work Love Without Boundaries does that I became a volunteer over a decade ago. I am so proud to be associated with such an amazing organization. My adult daughter is also a volunteer. You can feel GREAT about donating to Love Without Boundaries. At Love Without Boundaries, every child counts.
Without LWB I wouldn't be here today.
Because of LWB fighting for me I was able to have a second chance and have a family of my own and I am so lucky. When I saw how big of a heart they have for children in need I wanted to do the same. My parents have been on the board for 10 years now and my sisters and I been doing fundraising through love Without Boundaries for 5 years and it has been an amazing experience. We love that we were able to give these kids wheelchairs and see their smile! LWB, They truly stand for what they say about every child counts.
I first found out about LWB when I was working with children in China in the early 2000s and they provided cleft lip surgeries for a few children in our care. I was beyond impressed with the attention they gave each child and their overall needs. I now volunteer for them and have gotten the inside scoop. I have come to truly understand what an amazing organization this is. Everything they do is quality and with 100% commitment to doing what is in the best interest of children. The love they have for children starts from the top and trickles down to each and every endeavor, volunteer, and child.
I am both a donor and a volunteer with LWB. I am honored to be a part of this incredible organization. LWB’s mission has families and children at it’s core and the work they have done has affected so many lives.
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Every child counts at this organization that has minimal overhead while providing healthcare, education, foster care and safety to vulnerable children in multiple countries across the world. I am honored and blessed to be a small part of this amazing nonprofit!
I have been volunteering with LWB for twelve years and can speak firsthand to the amazing work they do! The organization has volunteers from across the world that work together to help children in multiple countries. It is truly a wonderful organization!
Absolutely amazing. They helped my siblings get medical care and education in before we were able to adopt them. Truly the best group of kid-focused, honest, heartfelt people.
I have volunteered with this organization for close to 15 years. The programs they have for children in need, all around the world, simply amazes me! LWB feels a great sense of compassion and love for the world's children and works very hard to improve their little lives, rather through nutrition, education, medical care, or foster care. There programs are first rate!
Working with other non-profits in China, I learned about Love Without Boundaries. After thoroughly researching them, we began donating to a few different programs. Over the years we have seen our money do real, tangible improvements for individuals and communities. LWB's dedication and commitment to transparency, accountability and the absolute focus on improving the lives of children is inspiring. It was inspiring enough to want to volunteer with them, but this post is about my relationship with them as a donor. I have seen surgeries that saved lives, education that have pulled families out of poverty, food and clean drinking water that have pushed back malnutrition and disease. I would whole-heartedly recommend donating to LWB.
I've worked with many nonprofits over the years and LWB is by far the most transparent, with finances, with decision-making. Great organization doing great work.
It’s truly amazing to have a volunteer position with Love Without Boundaries. I enjoy my role so much. Seeing how children can thrive when they and their families are helped by one of our LWB programs is incredible, amazing and inspiring. Looking forward to many, many more years of being part of the most wonderful team!
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I’ve happily volunteered with Love Without Boundaries for over two years. I began with one of the foster programs and now I also volunteer with one of our ECDC programs, both positions in Cambodia. In this organization, truly, ‘Every Child Counts’ I love being part of this wonderful group. It’s an incredible feeling to be able to watch the children thrive since becoming part of a LWB program. I look forward to many many more years here!
LWB is a wonderful child centric charity that lives compassion and care. They provide loving support to vulnerable kids in much needed and often scary situations. With over 20 years of consistent service to kids in need, they have proven that they get things done. They live out their values every day and hold each other accountable. On top of that, they manage the generous donations provided by supports in a way that maximizes the amount of money going directly to the needs of the kids.
LWB has great programs providing value and needed care to vulnerable kids; they consistently get the job done; they are transparent; and they are efficient with the funds provided by supporters. Everything you can want, from a great nonprofit.
I donate to LWB, and have also been a volunteer with this wonderful organization for the past 19 years. I would never dedicate that much of my life if I didn't know that the charity upholds the very highest standards of compassionate care for children, and being excellent stewards of every dollar donated. I highly recommend Love Without Boundaries to anyone wishing to donate to a children's charity. Or to volunteer...you won't find a kinder, more dedicated group of individuals.
This charity is so amazing. Not just their mission, which is already reason enough to donate, but the way they advocate and the dedication of their employees will guarantee a good experience for you and the child(ren) you end up supporting. There is literally no downside. My brothers were in LWB’s programs while they lived in China, and that’s how we decided to adopt them. It truly is an amazing charity and worth any donation.
I've known Love Without Boundaries for 3 years now and I must say that the work they do with children is amazing! Having learned how committed they are with their mission and motto (Every child counts), it made want to join them as a volunteer. I've been a volunteer for 2 years now and I am really touched at how respectful they are with each child and foster family and the history they are building together. It is a great place to work, if you are looking for volunteer work, and a very trustworthy organization, if you want to sponsor children.
Welcomed to volunteer by a family friend, I have spent the last two years writing sponsor updates for a sibling set in Cambodia. First, I've watched these kids begin in LWB schools and make friends, gain self-assurance, and catch up to their peers when these siblings had barely had any schooling before. I've seen the repetitive efforts of the LWB team to try to help their foster kids receive the health care they need when current records do not appear accurate. I've seen them try different strategies of education for kids so that they can confidently excel, such as through catch-up classes for kids who might be older or might need more specialized attention. Of course, sometimes teens decide to pursue work rather than education or to be reconciled with a relative rather than live with their foster families, but LWB allows children the choice. It encourages education, but it also tries to provide job suggestions if the child strongly opposes continuing education.
Second, I've seen hope for the foster care system, that even relatively poor families can host a sibling set of five. A foster mother helps her daughters learn how to cook, and a foster father offers his time to tutor his kids in the evening regularly. As with any child, behavior problems do occur, but LWB team members try to talk kids and their foster parents through these troubles so that solutions are reached. I remember writing of one child who had grown up on the streets and therefore had come into foster care with poor habits, but each update emphasized how he seemed so excited to share to his foster parents and to our team members about all the good things happening daily in his life at school. I also love reading about siblings helping siblings, seeing kids who have lived through unimaginable tragedies still laugh and create games with each other.
Third, I love LWB's focus on family-centered care. The fundamental building block of society is the family, and LWB works hard to keep families together if possible. Sometimes, it may help a family start a small business in their community to help keep it together, or it might help an elderly couple taking care of many grandchildren achieve stabler income. When birth families cannot stay together, LWB tries to locate relatives, again to keep the child with biological family and encourage a society built on a community of families. When reunification is not possible, it finds foster parents for the children. LWB continues discussing how to better find and equip foster parents who will best take care of the children. So far, the children I have wrote about have remained in their foster home without having to be abruptly removed. In the case that a child has moved homes, that was due to reunification being possible with family. LWB also celebrates domestic adoption, recognizing the value of families stepping up to adopt children in their own country desperately in the need of committed parents.
LWB exemplifies how to adapt family-centered care to each nation. In the developing nation of Cambodia, it runs a special Safe Haven foster care program for trafficked or abused children in addition to its regular foster care program. In another nation that discourages foster care outside of institutions, LWB runs on-site family care within the institutions, in which foster parents live in an institution’s private wing and care for a group of orphans.
I had the privilege of interviewing volunteers of various levels for a research project. I heard how the CEO herself has taken two orphaned children under her wing, so to speak, to try to help them achieve equal legal status to their non-orphaned peers. Each person I corresponded with passionately wanted to serve children and many had adopted children of their own, not just healthy children, but kids with medical needs. After all, LWB began on a quest to provide dire heart surgery for a child needing it.
LWB continually innovates and improves its structures to match the community. Amy Eldridge herself expresses the need for considering the peculiarities of cultures and communities when assessing and addressing needs in her book "The Heart of Community." Reading that book sparked my own research interests and led me to learn more about family-centered care for orphaned and impoverished children around the globe.
Lastly, the LWB community cares for each other. My supervisors care about my personal life and interests, they will create flexibility in my volunteer schedule when I have a particularly busy school schedule, and they voluntarily advised me through a research project. I have had positive, encouraging email interactions with the CEO, and she sends truthful emails weekly, not hiding tragedies when they do happen (such as when a heart patient's surgery ends unsuccessfully) but not without uplifting hope. The bright faces of impoverished parents who receive a new home or receive sponsorship for their baby's surgery cannot be understated. Despite my loaded university schedule, I hope to continue volunteering here and will happily recommend it to others. Altogether, LWB has inspired in me a deeper love for international kids and communities, and I look forward to watching more lives be transformed by this organization and its statement: "Every Child Counts."
I have been volunteering with LWB for two years now and have loved my experience thus far. All the individuals involved with LWB are so kind and passionate about their work and helping these children, it is truly inspirational and beautiful to see such compassion. Everyone works hard to make the foster programs as beneficial and supportive as they are. I work on the admin side of the volunteering work for LWB, where I write and send monthly updates regarding some of the foster care children to the respective donors. The happiness and liveliness that the children express each month exemplifies how great LWB’s foster care programs are and how much of a positive difference they make in so many children’s lives.
LWB is a great non profit children’s charity organization and is very trustworthy does what they say that they will do.
LWB does so much for children in need. Truly a great nonprofit! They are also so easy to work with and truly helpful and amazing!
It’s an amazing children charity and have done everything they had promised and said they would do. Amazing people and very hard workers.
I have a heart for foster care and for humanitarian work. I spent about a year looking for an organization I could trust and volunteer for. LWB (Love without boundaries) was the answer. Every child truly counts. So many volunteers labor for the benefit of each child with great love and concern. I know funds are used with great care. LWB understands the complexities that is often associated with providing humanitarian aid to developing nations. To minimize that LWB has developed wonderful relationships in the countries they serve and have trained and skilled LOCAL team members in each country to facilitate LWB's efforts. It is an honor to share my skills in their efforts. Lives are changed every day with LWB's work.
I have been a donor to Love Without Boundries for over a decade and a volunteer for 3 years. Every interaction with this organization convinces me more that it is a good fit for both my funding and my time. LWB does an amazing job of helping individuals really make a difference in the lives of children and families who desperately need their help. Thgeir motto of "Every Child Counts" is put into practice every day all across the world. Nearly all the funding goes directly to those in need while maintaining the necessary infrastructure. Assisting children and families with education, nutrition, medical and foster care programs is their core passion. I work closely with a foster care program in Uganda where local families are identified to provide quality oversight with at least monthly on site visits from local staff to assure quality care. Multiple layers of both paid staff and volunteers assure loving, safe homes are being provided.
I have been volunteering for Love Without Boundaries for nearly 12 years. LWB effectively serves orphaned and impoverished children around the world through funding medical care, education, and family/foster care. I am proud to be associated with such meaningful work.
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I have been volunteering for Love Without Boundaries for 5 years. The oversight, the dedication volunteer feels to the children and the fact that almost all of each donation goes to the children makes this a truly great charity. I am proud of being associated with them. My younger daughter was served by medical, foster care, and education and it made such a difference in her health and her adjustment.
I have volunteered with Love With Boundaries for several years. What impresses me most is the way LWB always meets with the people living in the areas they serve to find out what their actual needs are before proceeding with a plan. The aid given is always culturally sensitive and sustainable.
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I am a volunteer with Love Without Boundaries in their education program and am very impressed with the services given to the children there. Love Without Boundaries knows and serves each child involved. I also sponsor a child in the medical program and receive detailed monthly reports. With LWB, the child comes first--always.
I love that this organization gives follow up information on the children supported with lots of pictures too! There are so many needy children (families) that we truly feel good about contributing to Love Without Boundaries!!!
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We are donors and have been a volunteer with Love Without Boundaries for many years. We give to other groups and organizations and none communicate to the donors the outstanding way that Love Without Boundaries does. It has been exciting to see how Love Without Boundaries has expanded their care to children in other countries - Cambodia, Uganda, and India. In this time of the pandemic, they have raised funds to help with the crisis for many families and orphanages that do not have food. While locked down, the effort that the workers in these other countries make to extend care, food and water is unparalleled. This year has been a challenge for the world and Love Without Boundaries has gone beyond and makes a difference in so many lives. There mission is to help with nutrition, medical, and education, and the unity fund. They also do special projects to help with special needs. I can't recommend Love Without Boundaries Foundation as an outstanding group to donate to and help the neediest of children and families.
I have volunteered with LWB for years and continue to be amazed with the team. The sponsors are generous and engaged.
Love Without Boundaries is an incredible organization. They do a lot of their work with volunteers, but even more importantly, they empower locals in-country to improve the quality of life for those in need around them. LWB is truly amazing and is having a definite positive impact on the world!
Love Without Boundaries has played an important role in our daughter's life. When she was 7 years old, having been ill, she was able to attend a daily preschool (Believe in Me) started in her Chinese orphanage by LWB. I believe experiencing school and eating the snacks provided helped her and the other many, many children in more we could ever know. Consequently, I became an LWB volunteer. Over the past decade, I have seen countless children impacted by LWB. The foundation focuses on vulnerable children educating, feeding, and healing children thus impacting their future! I have complete confidence funds donated to this organization will be utilized thoughfully and with integrity!
Love Without Boundaries is a wonderful organization that truly serves and acts in the guiding principle that All Children Matter.
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Love Without Boundaries really believes in its motto that ever child counts and has a team of dedicated people who knows that every small action counts. It has been wonderful volunteering with LWB and knowing that I'm making a difference in a child's life - however small. LWB is very well organized and communicates effectively to everyone inside and outside the organization
Love Without Boundaries puts children and families first in every decision made. As an adoptive mama to a child who did not benefit from a LWB program, I can tell you how greatly this work is needed and the difference that it makes in children remaining with their first families and orphans receiving the best care possible, thereby setting them up for a brighter future.
Love Without Boundaries is a truly life changing, life saving nonprofit that supports children and youth facing tremendous obstacles. Children receive surgical and medical care, rehabilitative and healing care in orphanages, foster care, safe care following abuse or exploitation, access to education that would not otherwise be possible, food and nutrition support, and so much more. Often they are able to be given the opportunity to just be children. Each child and family served are known as individuals, and deeply cared for on a personal level, so far from ever being just a name in a system. I have seen lives forever changed, lives directly saved, and lives empowered to change their community by Love Without Boundaries. At it’s core , Love Without Boundaries is hope and it is love.
I've volunteered with LWB for over 2 years now and really love their mission. The people involved in the organization genuinely care about the children and are always striving for excellence when it comes to the kids' wellbeing. Each child is loved and cared for on an individual basis just like their moto says: every child counts!
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I started following Love Without Boundaries on social media a few years ago. I loved seeing the pictures of the kids and the work the organization was doing to help them. I started volunteering with them after following them for a little while. They are the real deal. I love being involved and getting first-hand accounts of how these kids and their families are being helped! They're so open with their donors and make sure that they have the best, most accurate info on the kids their donors are supporting
My brother was born with a cleft palate and they provided one of his first surgeries. Before he had the surgery it was hard for him to move his mouth in ways many of us take for granted. It affected what he ate, how he ate, his speech, and interacting with other people. I love him so much and I really do believe that they gave a huge helping hand to get him where he is now. That was more than 10 years ago so they've gotten bigger and are now able to help even more children and families.
Our family have been donors to LWB for many years and in March of 2019 I was excited to become a volunteer and join the Love Without Boundaries family. My work primarily focuses on children who receive lifesaving heart surgery at Wolfson Hospital in Israel, which is part of the Save a Childs Heart Organization. I have been blessed to witness firsthand the incredible and extraordinary work of this organization, whose commitment and compassion to their mission has no limits.
As a family we have followed LWB and its development to reach out to children from other countries and expand its programming in often very challenging situations. Most recently LWB has had to adapt its life saving work during the COVID 19 Pandemic, including setting up an Emergency Food Relief Campaign whilst still continuing to support the many children and families currently in their care. This is only possible to achieve with an outstanding, devoted team of dedicated caring staff along with the many committed volunteers from around the world who go above and beyond to ensure that Every Child Counts.
Belinda Ossip
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The first thing that stood out to me about LWB was how pure and simple their mission is: to help every child and their family that we are able to reach. It's also amazing to see how passionate every person who is involved with LWB is. LWB emphasize the importance of all personnels involved and is great at keeping everyone updated on the latest news of the children and their families.
I am currently a college intern at Love Without Boundaries, and I love this organization and its mission. I love being able to make a small difference in the lives of vulnerable children around the world by working remotely. It is heartwarming to hear stories and see children receive love, kindness, and care. I am amazed at the wonderful network of volunteers who dedicate their time and talent to serve vulnerable children. Despite the pandemic, LWB continues to help children around the world. I am thankful and grateful to be a part of LWB.
I have loved following LWB since I was a young girl and they have inspired me throughout my life to help children. Love Without Boundaries makes an amazing impact in childrens' lives from medical needs to foster care, they always amaze me by their resilience and dedication to support as many children as possible. They deserve all of the hearts! ❤
I have financially supported Love Without Boundaries for about a year. They provide frequent communication sharing the details of how my donations are being used to meet needs. And since I have a close friend who volunteers with them, I know enough "behind the scenes" info to be confident that most or all my funds are going directly to those who need it instead of towards marketing or administrative costs. I plan on continuing to support this great organization for a long time. If I could give 10 stars I would!
I have been a volunteer for the past 10 years and the mother of a child that benefitted from Love Without Boundaries medical and education programs in China. The work that LWB does around the world changes lives-funding medical care to keep families intact, providing education, nutrition programs, and having foster and on-site family care to allow children the chance to experience the love of a family-any program by itself makes a difference. When LWB sees a need to further serve children around the world they respond in a manner that partners with each country and best serves the needs of the children.
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I have been a volunteer with Love Without Boundaries for 8 years now. Because the organization has only a few paid staff, the focus is always on the children. The majority of each dollar goes directly to services such as foster care, education and medical care. The unity initiative is reducing child abandonment through the provision of medical care that birth families cannot afford. One of my children was served by education, foster care, and medical care and she was healthy and easily adjusted to life in our family. The children thrive with the love and attention they receive from this organization.
LWB is an incredibly inspiring charity. It would be easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of poverty that exists in the countries in which LWB operates and to think that you can’t make a difference. However, for the individual children and families that have been helped by LWB it means the entire world. So many children’s lives have been changed by the support given by LWB, whether it is through surgery that their parents couldn’t afford, foster care in a loving family, or a chance to escape poverty by getting an education. Every child really does count.
Love Without Boundaries is a rare nonprofit that really puts the mission above all else. I have found the organization to be considerate and loving and true to its roots. Awesome organization to donate to as you can clearly see in many cases where and whom your donations are going to. I've loved working with the team.
Well respected charity that truly cares about their donors money to make sure that it Is being spent on the cause and wisely. I find the organization responsible, trustworthy, and responsive.
First of all, I would like to thank you so much to LWB teams for allowing me to be part of this community, and especially Amy that was introducing me to the first 3 Cambodian student in 2018. Therefore, as we all know that there are so many nonprofit organization plays in many roles, but for LWB is significantly different. LWB is a great humanity organization to work with and the most important things that they are truly dedicated and devoted it to their mission of helping and support the people Globally. For the last 20 years I've involved in many nonprofit organization but I have never see how hard their work and commitment. LWB is very professional and excellent performance and commitment that to serve and providing a medical, education, nutrition, and etc....LWB have many task of LOVE and COMPASSION that puts in a smile to everyone hearts.
As covid-19 continue to spread, LWB teams do all their power to reach out and helping to support this humanity tasks during the challenging times for us all. Without LWB, none of the children in Cambodia at the landfill or in the rural area would not be able to attending school. Thank you once again for all your commitment. And I'm truly appreciate all the LWB teams for all your efforts, love and passion that put in the smile in their hearts.
I first learned about Love Without Boundaries 14 years ago when we were adopting my youngest daughter from China. She was lucky enough to be a beneficiary of both their nutrition and education programs. These programs provided her with very critical support in the two years before she joined our family. This inspired us to become donors. Having made two trips to adopt from China, we have always been amazed and thankful for the work LWB has done in so many orphanages in China. When I retired a few months ago I had the opportunity to begin volunteering with LWB. It has been so amazing to see the commitment and heart that the organization pours into their work. Their vast network of volunteers around the world allows them to keep operating costs very low so more money can go to help children in need.
Love Without Boundaries is an organization that I greatly admire and respect. They take great pride in ensuring that neglected communities have the support they need, and I have firsthand seen that through interactions with the LWB staff. The intentionality and hard-work that goes into Love Without Boundaries' work is incredible, and this is why I continue to be involved in the organization.
I have been a donor and volunteer for Love Without Boundaries for seven years. This charity is nothing short of incredible. The work being done for vulnerable children around the world is amazing. The organization is run almost solely on volunteers so the money goes where it is needed. LWB is not scared to change as needed to reach more children and meet more needs. Simple amazing work being done.
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This organization continues to amaze me. I became a volunteer after LWB was able to help me get a donation of coats to my daughter's orphanage. I could not walk away from them after I learned more and I continue to be blown away by the love and dedication of this group. With a very low overhead due to mostly volunteers, LWB is making a massive difference, often a life-saving difference, in orphans and impoverished children of China, one child at a time.
Love Without Boundaries does such an amazing job helping children in China, Cambodia, Uganda and India. LWB started work in China, improving the lives of orphaned children, the organisation has taken the experience gained there to work in other countries where children are in need. The concept of helping children one at a time makes making a difference feel possible and gives need a face.
As a volunteer and donor, I’m so impressed with this organization. It is amazing to watch lives being impacted everyday by LWB. I am very thankful to be a part of it.
Wonderful organization! Help many children who are orphaned or at risk bringing medical care, nutrition, and education.
Everyone involved in Love Without Boundaries has one driving focus -- love for people, especially children. Love suffuses this organization, and I have seen it in action as a sponsor and now as a volunteer. The utmost ethical standards are upheld because the organization respects it's recipients to the utmost.
I first discoverd LWB a few years ago and started off by sponsoring a Cambodian student through the Impoverished Student program. One thing I quickly discovered about LWB was how much they care. The sheer support they provide to kids, both educationally and medically, is astonishing. Everything is transparent, what they tell you is what 'is'.
Soon I began to sponsor another child, a kiddo in the Sibling School in Cambodia. This facility provides a safe, nuturing environment for the younger siblings of school kids. This enables the older kids to go to school and parents to work without worrying about the wellbeing of the younger members of the family.
A couple of years ago, I was in Cambodia and was able to arrange a visit to the village where 'my' sponsored kids lived and was lucky enough to meet not only my sponsored kids, but many of the other kids, too, as well as have a tour of the schools. One thing that was very clear was how appreciative the locals were for the work LWB has done to provide educational opportunities for the local kids. And not only that, all the work opportunities (cooks for school meals, caretakers for the schools etc) are offered to the locals, so as a community they are working together to improve the future of all.
This visit quickly inspired me to volunteer for LWB which I have now been doing for a year and a half. I can honestly say, hand on heart, I have never felt so strongly about such a good cause. LWB inspires those they help, and they in turn inspire the people around them.
My experience with this charity has been amazing. As a volunteer, I get to see behind the scenes of what goes on to make sure this organization does what is best for the children that are apart of their programs. From the sponsorship for schools to foster care, I have been impressed with all I've seen. It's the reason I continue to volunteer to be apart of LWB and will do so for as long as I can.
My daughter (adopted in 2012) was helped through LWB's medical program. After learning more about what LWB does-I became a supporter. Then, a few years ago, I decided I wanted to volunteer my time with this organization as I saw so many wonderful things happening for children in need. Now that I am a volunteer and have a "behind the scenes" look at the day to day operations, I can safely say I love LWB even more. They are the real deal when it comes to living their motto of "Every Child Counts". They help more children than I think most people even realize, and I love that they go to some of the hardest to work regions where the needs feel endless. Love without Boundaries is a trustworthy organization, and I am proud to be a supporter as well as a volunteer.
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I first heard of Love Without Boundaries in 2010 through a friend. We had donated to help a child who had the same complex medical history as our daughter did. This child needed life saving surgery and medical treatment and had LWB not intervened, I believe she would likely have not survived. Two years later, we became the proud parents of that same child through adoption. I now serve as a volunteer with LWB. Seeing the "behind the scenes" work LWB does through my role as a volunteer has only made me respect LWB even more than I already had! They are an organization that truly lives up to their name, and I stand with them in the fight to help orphaned and impoverished children around our globe!
Love Without Boundaries lives up to its motto that every child counts. They have a team of dedicated volunteers who work tirelessly to improve the lives or children around the world.
I can’t say enough about this organization and the work they do with children around the world. They are changing the lives of children everyday!
LWB is an incredible organization that truly makes a difference in the lives of children around the world.
Love Without Boundaries motto of "Every Child Counts" is simple yet profound. I am only one person, but what can I do to help the child in need that crosses my path today? LWB gives me an opportunity to help children in need around the world through their education, nutrition, medical and foster care programs. I especially like their model of partnering with local leaders in the community so that there is an ongoing relationship.
Love Without Boundaries (LWB) is an organization which truly lives up to its goal of TRANSFORMING THE LIVES OF ORPHANED & IMPOVERISHED CHILDREN. One of the many amazing aspects of LWB is the variety and creativity of their many programs, including medical care / education / nutrition / foster care / child trafficking aid and other programs.
My introduction to LWB was through my son Jaden. Jaden was born in China and was orphaned as an infant. LWB arranged for him to have the two surgeries that he needed, and it was only AFTER surgery that he was listed as a candidate for international adoption. His orphanage director later told us that Jaden would never have been listed for adoption if LWB had not arranged for Jaden’s surgeries.
So it is an absolute fact that without LWB’s intervention, we never would have even known that our son Jaden existed. He would still be living in an orphanage and he would never have a Mom, Dad, brothers, or sisters. Now he has five siblings, and he is a source of joy to all who know him!
My relationship to LWB has evolved over the years. After Jaden came home, we became donors to several of LWB’s programs, and about one year ago I began volunteering for LWB.
LWB has a large team of volunteers from around the world, several of whom work hard to keep the donors informed about the lives of the children who are being transformed by LWB. This communication back to the donors is one of the many defining characteristics of LWB.
LWB has created multiple programs over the years to improve the lives of thousands of children. Over the past 15 years, MORE THAN 50,000 CHILDREN have been DIRECTLY IMPACTED by the programs of LWB!!!
The following information is provided on their website:
Over 10,000 pediatric medical cases and evaluations, with 4,300+ surgeries and hospitalizations
3,500 children placed into foster homes
3,700 children given access to education
6,400 children served through our nutrition program
780+ children given specialized care in our healing homes
1,300 orphaned children enrolled in summer camps
25,000 cleft bottles distributed to orphanages and maternity hospitals
45,000 coats and blankets distributed to orphaned and rural children
700 special projects completed, including new cribs, playgrounds, wheelchair projects, and more
21 physical therapy trainings, including two at the national level
7 special education trainings
17 medical exchanges between US and Chinese physicians
3,000 copies of our Manual of Special Needs distributed to orphanages
In addition, over the past couple of years they have built schools in two rural villages in Cambodia and are providing education, food, water, and health care to more than 300 children living in the region.
As a volunteer, I recently had the opportunity to travel to the villages in Cambodia to see the impact of the programs firsthand. While there I got to meet many of the children, and as a physician I performed physical examinations.
Prior to LWB’s programs there, the great majority to the children were so severely malnourished that most of them were not even on the growth charts for height or weight. Many were so malnourished that their hair was actually discolored as a result.
Also, the great majority of the children in the area were not able to attend school due to financial issues, family issues, transportation issues, and/or due to the risk of being abducted in this area which is known to have a high risk of child trafficking.
Now the children are able to get an education and are provided with nutritious meals!
After visiting the schools, I can state without hyperbole that LWB’s programs are truly TRANSFORMING the lives of these children.
A first grader recently expressed her appreciation this way:
"I really like the hot lunch program at school. Before, I didn’t get to eat lunch because my dad doesn’t have enough money to feed everyone in the family. I eat as much as I can during the LWB lunch, so then if I don’t get dinner at night I don’t feel as hungry."
LWB now provides her and her classmates TWO hot meals per day!
There is no way that I can really express the impact of LWB on so many children’s lives in this review. But I will share the story of one more child.
Charles is a teenage boy whose femur (thigh bone) was broken in late 2016 when he was struck by a hit and run driver. He did not have any access to medical care, and his leg became severely infected. By the time LWB learned of his condition, Charles had a very real risk of losing his leg. LWB was able to get him to a hospital in nearby Thailand for treatment. His infection was treated, and he then had a surgery with placement of some impressive hardware!
I got to meet Charles at my recent visit, and he is doing amazingly well. He has full use of his leg and has no pain!!
Here is the impact that LWB had on Charles, in his own words:
"I’m so grateful to LWB and their donors for providing medical care to me which allowed my leg to be saved. It was a gift I will never forget the rest of my life. Because my broken femur was repaired, I can now go back to school, which gives me real hope."
Truly his life has been transformed by the intervention of LWB!!
As I mentioned, there is no way that I can share the scope of LWB’s impact on so many thousands of children. I do recommend the following resources to help get more of an idea of LWB’s impact.
I highly recommend that you visit LWB’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/lwbfanpage
I highly recommend that you visit LWB’s Website at www.lovewithoutboundaries.com
I highly recommend that you visit LWB’s Blog at www.lwbcommunity.org
I highly recommend that you read the book about the early years of LWB: https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Orphan-Amy-Eldridge/dp/0979463939/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538843046&sr=8-1&keywords=amy+eldridge
Again, there is no way that I can give an idea of the scope and impact of LWB on so many thousands of children.
But if a picture is worth a thousand words, let me leave you with three pictures and one video of my son Jaden. (He is wearing the red shirt in the first picture and the USA swimtrunks in the third picture.)
Without LWB he would not be with his family. He would still be an orphan. Instead, he is a loved child.
Thanks LWB!
Tim Sanford
Three of our four sons adopted from China were served through LWB programs. We will always be grateful for the care they received. We have seen the benefits of this care first hand. I appreciate the transparency of the organization and its sound fiscal management.
Wonderful non profit that is powered by passionate volunteers who believe in the mission of Love Without Boundaries. This is what makes this organization stand out, it is all volunteers, and all heart. They are constantly reevaluating how they can best help children in impoverished communities around the world and have worked miracles for so many orphaned children and impoverished families that need help with education or medical needs. I also love the personal contact that donors receive from the organizational volunteers to thank them for their donations and also keep them updated on the children they've sponsored.
Love without Boundaries goes above and beyond to communicate with sponsors. I love getting the monthly reports and seeing all the good they do
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This organization does wonders for special needs orphans in China. As a donor to their foster care program, I get monthly reports for my sponsor child. I love to read about the antics of the little guy I sponsor and see him grow in the monthly pictures! They have a great group of volunteers that do a huge amount of the work, so your money goes a long way.
LWB is a fantastic organization doing powerful work arpund the world with disadvantaged young people including orphans and other marginalized children. They are fiscally responsible and transparent with a world-wide team of volunteers and staff dedicated to improving lives in an ethical manner.
I have been a volunteer for Love Without Boundaries Foundation since December 2006. The work done by this charity over the years has been amazing. So many lives changed by medical procedures that have saved lives and put them on the path for adoption. Even many who will not have the opportunity to be adopted have been helped nutritionally and educationally. I donate to very few organizations that I trust and LWB is one of them. An incredible amount of the work to put these programs into practice is done by volunteers. They are an excellent example of service and accountability.
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I have one daughter that was helped by LWB's education program, and I have been a volunteer for Love Without Boundaries for almost 4 years. It is a privilege to help so many children through my work and know that through the volunteer efforts of many others as well, a lot of children are helped medically, educationally, emotionally and physically. I think LWB does an amazing work.
I love Love Without Boundaries. I have been involved with them for eight years and know that each child they care for is put first, cared for and loved. They fight for the children that noone else is fighting for, and have saved the lives of many through the medical care they help make possible. They also provide education to the impoverished, in areas where school hasn't been available before. Sponsors get regular updates. All of my interactions with LWB have shown that they are ethical and wise with donations.
2 of my 4 children received medical care while they lived in China before our family adopted them. I have been a volunteer now for several years and we have helped raised funds to support the medical programs offered by LWB. We also donate to LWB.
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We sponsor a little girl in a healing home in this program. It is wonderful getting monthly updates on her and seeing how much she has grown and what new things she can do. We love seeing her photos and hearing how she is doing after surgery. Its a wonderful charity and we love to sponsor their mission to help children in China.
Full disclosure--I am a volunteer with Love Without Boundaries, and have, at my own expense, traveled with the organization on medical missions for children with cleft lip and palate. I can vouch for the consideration and love that goes into each of the Love Without Boundaries' programs. The child is foremost, and with the cultural awareness and respect that is part of every endeavor, entire communities benefit long term. Love Without Boundaries lives up to its name in all it does.
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I started out as a donor/sponsor with Love Without Boundaries because I was impressed with their work with babies and children in China who were in need of medical help. I have since become a volunteer with the organization as a coordinator for one of their many education programs. I am consistently impressed with the breadth of Love Without Boundaries' many programs in various countries that address so many needs--medical, education, nutrition, foster care, water, family preservation--and they do it in a way that truly meets those needs in a culturally respectful and sustainable way.
I have learn about Love without Boundaries in the most wonderful way - through the adoption of my grand daughters. One in particular was helped in a way that was only possible because of LWB. She was in their healing home after having life changing surgery, also made possible by LWB. They then placed her with a foster care family, that took excellent care of her until her adoption. I am so grateful to this organization and impressed by the number of programs around the world they now foster.
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I have two wonderful grand daughters because of Love Without Boundaries. One in particular benefited from their cleft lip program and foster care. I don't even want to consider what their lives would have been like without this program. And it is for that reason I donate towards the education of a child in China. LWB also at times makes special requests. A recent one was for a young girl in Africa who needed surgery outside her own country. It is nice to know that my contribution can help a child in need and to get an update on that child
Love Without Boundaries is an amazing charity that truly puts every child first. The money you give really goes to what you are giving it to. Amazing, life changing work!
Love Without Boundaries is an amazing organization that helps orphaned & impoverished children in China, Uganda, Cambodia, and India. Their motto is "Every Child Counts", and I truly believe that this the heart of the organization. LWB considers each child in their programs as an individual - ensuring that they receive the education, nutritional, and/or medical care that they specifically need. Our family has seen the lives of many children truly transformed by LWB! This agency is extremely ethical and uses donor funds exactly as promised, while also working hard to provide culturally-appropriate care. I recommend LWB very highly!
I first became aware of the tremendous work of Love Without Boundaries (LWB) in 2012 when we adopted three children from China, who each had somehow benefited from the organizations' efforts. The organization is amazing and the love and passion all of the staff and volunteers have for caring for children is unbelievable. They do amazing work in many countries, providing medical, educational and nutritional care to those who would no doubt not survive if it weren't for LWB. I will forever be indebted to them for what they did for my children before they were in my family, and I am honored to volunteer my time to contribute to helping other children.
This organization is run with the utmost professionalism and love and passion all for the benefit and care of children who most need it. Despite regulatory challenges to continue operations the CEO and board and worked tirelessly to continue their mission of helping children in whatever aspect they can. It's been an honor and privilege to be part of something so wonderful
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I currently volunteer here and have seen first hand how much love and work are provided for these children. Each child is cared for individually and advocated for to the furthest extent possible. All the work is done from the genuine care and concern from everyone's hearts and it is evident in the quality of programs and care provided for the children. LWB not only works with orphans but are dedicated to helping prevent orphans through their Unity Initiative and also for children left behind from working parents. It speaks volumes to the depths of the love from this organization for the children.
I have volunteered for LWB for over 10 years. One of the reasons I love supporting LWB is its strong core of volunteers which means funds donated go to help the kids, not to administrative salaries. Volunteers make this happen and donors know their money goes to what their hearts feel is important! I continue to be amazed at cost effective solutions to big problems as LWB helps in the many countries it serves.
I have been a donor for many years and a current volunteer, and I am consistently blown aware by this nonprofit. They truly change the lives of children who are in what would otherwise be impossible circumstances and do so with the highest level of integrity that I have ever witnessed. I have been involved in numerous nonprofits for well over a decade as an employee, volunteer, and/or donor and Love Without Boundaries exceeds them all with regard to their honesty, passion, and service.
LWB is a wonderful nonprofit that works hard to serve children in China, Cambodia, India, and Uganda. Through their efforts, families are kept together, children receive medical care and education they otherwise wouldn't, and children without families are able to live in loving foster homes in their own countries before their adoption. The work LWB does is sustainable, using in-country staff whenever possible, and almost all of their American staff are unpaid volunteers. LWB sets an example for how nonprofits should operate.
Love Without Boundaries is THE best. Their mission of "Every Child Counts" matches my heart so directly ... medical care, education, foster care support ... for orphans and impoverished children. They aren't a "one size fits all" organization - and that is something I specifically love. In one location, they're working to get clean water for impoverished families so that the children have time to go to school (instead of trekking far each day to retrieve clean water). In another location, older kids can't go to school because they are tasked with watching younger children - so, LWB started a school with a daycare so that the older kids can bring the younger kids for daycare while they attend school. For orphans and impoverished children with medical needs, they search far/wide to find the right doctors/medical care to help them (no matter what the need). The love that the organization shows, and the diligence, character, love and astuteness they show in all that is done is top notch. I honestly don't think organizations get any better than this one!
Love Without Boundaries has a strong commitment to financial transparency and will answer any questions you may have about how a donation is used. The reports and updates a donor receives for donations in any amount go above and beyond any other charity I have ever donated to. They truly mean it when they say "Every Child Counts"!
This is a phenomenal organization, rescuing and caring for orphans in China. The foundation is also committed to providing for the nutritional, medical, surgical, and educational needs of as many orphaned and impoverished special needs children as possible. The foundation maximizes every dollar received, in serving the best interests of these children. Love Without Boundaries gives hope and opportunity for orphaned children and youth to have fulfilling lives and hopeful futures. I'm inspired by the great work, the lives changed, because of Love Without Boundaries. LWB also has a wonderful and informative website! (lovewithoutboundaries.com)
As a volunteer in Shanghai, I visit and spend a lot of time with the LWB-sponsored children who come to China's top pediatric hospital, where I see firsthand how LWB strives to provide the most compassionate care possible to every single child. I also travel on an annual LWB medical trip, where I photograph children before and after cleft lip and palate surgery. Like all other LWB volunteers, I travel at my own expense. I also donate to this charity's medical fund, and I sponsor a child in foster care. I would not volunteer my time and donate my money to a charity that wasn't absolutely transparent and fiscally responsible. I am so grateful that this charity exists to advocate for orphaned and impoverished children who otherwise would have little hope. Volunteering with LWB has changed my life.
Love Without Boundaries is a fantastic organization that is led with strong, holistic leadership. Love Without Boundaries is set apart by its leadership team. Amy is a compassionate individual who understands and cultivates empathetic relationships with each person she meets. Her super-power reaches its full potential with her organization. She lives by the creed of her organization, and strives to create a world that is better for each person she interacts with.
I've personally interacted with Amy, and her organization's work and I can say confidently that I trust that the world is a better place because of this organization. It deserves all the recognition it receives. I know that many more people than myself resonate with this organization's infectious energy.
This charity has done so much good for China! They have saved so many lives and are doing such wonderful things!
LWB did so much to help three of my children before we adopted them. They are a wonderful organization that I recommend highly!
LWB is an amazing organization! The work they do and their dedication to helping orphans and families in China is priceless. They keep their donors updated and are the most appreciative and thankful organization we have ever supported. The are truly outstanding!
I've volunteered since 2011 with this organization. I watched them grow from just a group of adoptive parents thinking about how they could help one little boy to an world-wide organization of volunteers who have helped so many children in China. They have many programs such as healing homes, foster care programs, Believe in Me school programs, unity initiatives that help poor families get the surgeries for their children so they don't have to abandon them, life-skills programs for older orphans, nutrition, care-give training and more. LWB is not the kind of organization that puts out sad advertisements to get people to donate. LWB does the work, gets the kids help, and report back to the donors how the children are doing. The kids are not just a name or a number, Each child is a story of how people pulled together, sometimes in most difficult of circumstances and how healing and transformation takes place. In the Changzhi Foster Care program, we have had 22 children get adopted and each of them was much more prepared for transition into a forever family because of the love and care they got in a foster family instead of an orphanage. It is all possible not only because of the dedication of our volunteers, it is the strong dedication of our thousands of sponsors who donate and support these children and the programs that help them. For an idea of some ways LWB is making a difference see for yourself. https://www.lovewithoutboundaries.com/impact-report/
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I witness daily the compassion, care, understanding and dedication all the LWB volunteers put into their work all over the world. They are able to take on responsibilities such as identifying children in need, creating a plan, execute it in hours and save a life. Not only save a life but take it through medical treatment, healing, and into foster homes with families who care for them in a natural family setting instead of an orphanage. They run educational programs for orphans who would not get to go to school, fund higher education for kids who are so poor their families or the relative they may be living with can't afford. There are so many things LWB does seamlessly and so many lives are touched especially those of us who do the work.
LWB is a fantastic nonprofit that supports children and families in China. Not only do they do great work in supporting orphans, education, and medical needs, they also work hard to keep families together! They are a great group to volunteer with as well - truly a family!
Love Without Boundaries' goal is to give the most loving and compassionate care possible to orphaned and impoverished children and to bring hope and healing to these children. They accomplish good results. They have all different kinds of programs in order to help these children. Their work is wonderful and with good intentions. Stories and pictures from the website show their good work. They are changemakers, because they care about lives of others.
Love, The Happy Panda
I have seen their work on the ground in China, adopted a child that benefitted from their work, and now volunteer because I know that they make a difference. Great team of mostly volunteers that make a high impact for each dollar used.
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One of the qualities of LWB that helped me choose to sponsor a child was the low overhead costs and volunteer workforce. When I actually visited one of the LWB healing homes, I came home and immediately applied to volunteer for them since I saw what a tangible difference LWB care makes in the lives of orphans in China. We now have adopted our daughter who benefitted from LWB care and I now have personal experience all around that LWB really lives their motto, "Every Child Counts."
I have experienced first hand the work that Love Without Boundaries is doing in one of their schools in China. The children are thriving and learning. The nutrition of the children has improved greatly and you can tell their quality of life is improving by the joy in their faces. Thanks to LWB for stepping out of the American Dream and sharing with precious children and meeting their needs.
Love Without Boindaries is run by volunteers. Not even the founder or CEO take a salary or payment of any kind. Entirely through donations and volunteer work, they are able to help orphans in China get healthy enough for surgery, get life-saving surgery, get well post surgery, and move into wonderful foster care with real village and city families. They also provide "Believe In Me" schools in orphanages for children with visible special needs or disabilities that prevent them from attending regular school. And in the last few years a growing program called "Unity" allows donors to fund surgeries for children still in their families, so that families can remain together - families that may have otherwise had no choice but to abandon their child so that the child's life could be saved, as they simply do not have the money to pay for surgery or care. Love Without Boundaries is the real deal and I feel lucky to play a small role in all this charity accomplishes.

amylwb 12/09/2015
Thank you for the positive review! We do want to clarify though, that LWB at the current time has 169 volunteers helping to run programs in addition to a small team of paid staff in both the US and China.
I am a volunteer of the LWB. I came from China and knowing the huge needs of the orphaned children to get help to have a better life and better opportunities.
In China, most orphaned children are not only having challenges to stay alive but also are disabled and have physical and psychological difficulties. There also are some children who are not orphaned but have sever diseases which require money to get treatment, but their parents are too poor to get the proper treatment they need.
Love without boundaries foundation not only help the children in the orphanage, but also help children in poor families to get the care they need: medical care, education needs, nutrition needs and the materials for their daily living.
Love without boundaries foundation are not only help children but also help the children’s parents if there were need and all the volunteers are working hard and doing their best to help those they need.
Most of the volunteers are not Chinese and some of them may not even know much about China but we all are working together to help as much as we can to change the Chinese orphanage children’s life.
I love this foundation because the whole organization’s unconditional love to the children and their work. Volunteering in love without boundaries foundation really can make huge deference of those children’s life!I am proud of being part of it!
Please support our foundation!
LWB saved my daughter's life 6 years ago and they continue to do life saving, life changing work throughout China. They are committed to helping as many children as possible in China. They are primarily staffed by volunteers so their overhead costs are low. It's an amazing charity!
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I first became acquainted with Love WIthout Boundaries when I discovered they funded much needed heart surgery for my daughter when she was an infant living in an orphanage in China. This organization's commitment to helping children in China, both those with families and without, is truly impressive. I am proud to now work as a volunteer with them. There are very few paid staff in the organization, so that more of the donation money can help the children it is intended for. I don't have words for how grateful I am that they helped save my daughter's life.
I have seen first hand the difference that LWB is making in the lives of many children, and I can't say enough good things about them. Their work is life giving, life changing and life saving. Every child counts!
I have been a volunteer for Love Without Boundaries for several years, and still every day I am touched by the passion and caring that each volunteer demonstrates for every single child that comes into one of our programs.
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The work Love Without Boundaries is doing is inspirational. The lives they touch priceless and uncountable. From the children in their programs to the foster parents, from the doctors on cleft exchanges to the parents who adopt a child that otherwise may have died from a complicated heart defect they are reaching out with compassion and often what appears to be emotions raw from the loses.
They have several educational programs that are changing children's lives. I know of at least two orphans in recent weeks who passed college/university entrance exams because of the work LWB does. They help children in preschool all the way through college. Many of these children would not have had educational opportunities without them because of being orphaned or because of poverty. They provide funding for orphans and rural children, and they provide training for teachers.
The people of this organization are what make it so great. They are changing the world one child at a time.
I adore the work LWB does in China - from medical surgeries to foster care to education to their Unity Fund. They are the first foundation I turn to when I am looking to donate because I always know the money is going directly to the children through their strong programs on the ground in China and because i get updated with colorful reports on the children and programs we have donated to. Top notch foundation!
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We have sponsored children in LWB's medical, healing homes and foster care programs and are always so pleased to see that LWB utilizes our donation to directly help the children. This organization is a world-wide network of volunteers who desire to help orphans in China and donate all of their time and work. LWB's communication with sponsors is frequent and includes photos of the children that clearly show their progress, be it from surgical intervention or the loving arms of a foster family. Recommend highly!
By far the most rewarding volunteer experience of my university career so far. Such a tight-knit group of wonderful volunteers whose love and compassion for the kids shines through in everything they do. I love seeing updates of children who have been helped through our programs.
After working with Love Without Boundaries for over 2 years now I must say that I have been very impressed with the level of dedication, love, care and passion it takes to run an organization of this size and impact. Everyone involved from the Board to the Director to the China Staff and to the Volunteer Base has a strong level of commitment to these deserving children. There is a common goal that each person shares and it is to better the lives of every child that LWB comes into contact with, whether the child is a part of the program or not. Love Without Boundaries welcomes new ideas from it's support community and embraces change very easily. It has and will continue to be a pleasure and inspiration to volunteer with LWB. They are honest, ethical and passionate.
This is an amazing organization of people world-wide pouring their hearts and time into helping orphaned and impoverished children in China. Inside and outside, this organization shines with the love, care, and enthusiasm that its members bring each day. I have been involved with Love Without Boundaries as a donor and volunteer for several years and feel honored to be part of such a life-changing organization.
This is a wonderful organization my daughters made a donation to Belle, In the Hunan providence. What they do for children is just amazing!
This organization is amazing! So professionally operated, yet with such a caring heart that shines through in their regular communications to donors such as myself. The difference they make in the lives of these precious children cannot be overestimated. I love how they work closely with the Chinese authorities and local people - and everyone should consider supporting their Unity Fund!!!
I first learned about this organization from the adoption community. Then years later I adopted a child who happened to be sponsored and provided for by LWB. Our daughter was so well taken care of compared to other children adopted and the same time, that weren't in a nutrition program and foster home, that I was thoroughly convinced the work of LWB was crucially to the children's needs. I have now volunteered for over 5 years, and seen that they advocate for every child's need, and funds go directly to the children. I am so impressed with this volunteer model, I've seen nothing like it in any other nonprofit!
We adopted our two year old daughter who received life saving open heart surgery, nutrition and loving care through LWB. I feel certain she wouldn't be here today if it were not for LWB. There are no words to describe our gratitude for the love and care she received. We are so thankful to all the nannies, doctors, sponsors and LWB volunteers who supported and prayed for our little one until we got to her. I have just started volunteering with LWB in the past few weeks to try to give back for all done with our daughter. We love LWB and have never been more impressed with an organization that truly lives out their name - love without boundaries.
We have adopted two children from China and one of them was assisted by LWB. They helped provide funding for her foster care, education and medical needs. I cannot imagine what her life would have been like without the help of LWB.
I honestly never thought of myself as a "charity volunteer" type of person. Then I started researching adoption from China and came across some wonderful, very informative articles written by Love Without Boundaries founder Amy Eldridge. I started looking at what LWB did for children in China, and I was just blown away by the extent of help they provided, and the beautiful spirit in which it was done. Then I checked their financials, and saw how pretty much ALL of the money goes to the children. Then I applied to volunteer.
I felt like the luckiest person in the world when I was given an opportunity to volunteer!
I still feel lucky EVERY DAY in the work I do for Love Without Boundaries. I am so proud of the organization and so thankful and honored to be a part of what we do.
I adopted a 12 year old girl from China that had the privilege of being in LWB programs in her orphanage. She has been home 2 years and I have come to learn that LWB was responsible for her being put in school, tutoring after school, encouragement and support of her through her adoption and many field trip experiences. All of this was non-existent before LWB was established at her orphanage. I currently am bringing home 2 more girls who are enrolled in LWB programs in their orphanage and I am thankful for the role they are playing in their lives until their forever family can get there. I have seen first hand what this organization and individuals involved with this organization can do and what an impact they have in children's iives, as a result i have recently volunteered my time with them as a small token to what the organization has done for my children as well as thousands of other children.
I have been very impressed with LWB. As a donor, I want to be sure that my donation is being spent intelligently. I have read that LWB spends less than 10% on overhead and fundraising. This is astoundingly low. I also read their blog and facebook posts, and it's clear that the organization is really passionate about their cause.
I have volunteered at LWB for 6 years and can honestly say this organization truly believes that 'every child counts'. LWB is always extremely transparent regarding finances and works hard to be good stewards of each and every donation made. What you see is what you get with LWB!
I discovered LWB when I was researching China adoptions. After our first adoption I became a volunteer where I have served in various roles throughout the past few years. It is an honor to work with such an amazing group of people. In 2012 we completed our 2nd adoption who just happened to be a LWB kid:) I am forever thankful for the role they played in my son's life!
My husband and I adopted twins from China in 2004 who had their cleft like repaired by LWB. The work they did was amazing. Also the communication we received from them about our daughters was priceless. Over the years we have continued to provide funding for other kids and again the communication of how our funds were used was amazing.
My husband now works with the board of directors and he tells me daily how much they care for these little ones in China.
LWB is simply incredible!
We adopted two older girls who were part of the LWB Believe In Me School in Anhui, China. We feel our girls benefited so much from what LWB has offered them. If LWB had not come in to their orphanage, I know our girls would be struggling more in school. They love school and said they loved school in China. We are forever grateful for LWB and the people who helped our girls while they were living in China.
Love without Boundaries aids orphaned children in China by providing medical assistance, both through surgeries and their four amazing specialized healing homes in China, foster care, education and orphanage assistance. What makes LWB unique is they only have Chinese people on the ground doing the work and all but three of their staff are volunteers meaning that virtually every dollar we give is used to help the children in their care. LWB is a great non-profit in every sense of the word!
As a mother to two girls adopted from China, I was familiar with Love Without Boundaries from its inception and was impressed with its founders' dedication to helping children who remained in China. However, it was not until I became a volunteer for LWB nearly three-and-a-half years ago that I realized how truly special it is. This organization is almost entirely run by volunteers, and the funds raised are truly used to help children directly in areas such as education, foster care, medical care, nutrition and assistance to orphanages. Numerous children's lives have been improved by LWB, and many children have been healed and therefore made eligible for adoption because of their programs. The single-minded focus of its volunteers towards helping orphans and impoverished children in China is inspiring, and I am honored to call myself an LWB volunteer as well as a donor.
I am currently a volunteer for Love Without Boundaries, but I have been a donor/supporter of this charity for much longer than that. This is an organization that is truly transforming the lives of children and giving them a second chance at life. Each child who comes into the care of Love Without Boudaires is cherished and watched over. Donors can be confident that the money they donate is going to transform lives.
We adopted our newest daughter when she was almost 14 years old. LWB set up schooling for our daughter and many other older children just a few years ago at her orphanage. If it were not for the few years of public schooling and tutoring that she received, she would have had much more struggles in school than she does. They also provided the older kids with opportunities to sing/perform in public, and go on various field trips to give them new life experiences. I believe these field trips were very good for broadening our daughter's knowledge of the world around her. In addition, I believe the performances and tutoring helped build our daughter's self esteem. LWB sent us several CDs of pictures of our daughter for the last 4-5 years of her life. Some of those CDs contained her progress that she made from when she began school to how she was doing recently in school. In addition, LWB was very receptive to concerns we had when we adopted a previous child several years ago as an older toddler. They stepped in and checked out the older children's nutritional needs and made more protein and snacks available for the children. They also made it possible recently for children younger than 3 years old to begin attending their Believe in Me school onsite at the orphanage, which is a huge plus that they now can offer this to the younger children. LWB is a very caring, responsive, and financially responsible organization. We have donated to this organization many times and recommended them as a charity to our friends and family. I hold them in high esteem.
As an adoptive mom of a little girl who turned five the day we met her and was fortunate enough to be taken care of by the LWB team, I will be forever grateful. After our first adoption from Huainan in 2003, my 13 yr old son wrote a poem for the Love's Journey book that LWB made to raise funds. We have sponsored children and projects for many years and have seen the children blossom in their care. Little did we know that our fourth little girl from China would benefit from life saving surgery funded by LWB as a newborn, eat nutritious food everyday through the nutrition program and attend the Believe in Me School in Huainan funded by LWB. She was also sponsored and placed in a loving foster home through LWB. After we brought her home in July, we received about 100 precious pictures and foster care reports that will be treasured in her life book. She has done so well on every level since coming home. Having all this support has made her transition incredibly peaceful. She started kindergarten and attached to her forever family readily. I know her ability to be both resilient and successful n transitioning to our family and school is directly a result of the head start during these formative years from LWB. We are sponsoring a little girl from her orphanage and get reports to follow her progress with the hopes that she too will find a family. Thank you to all the volunteers that make every dollar count and every child matter. 5 stars indeed! Beth Flanders mom to Kerry Wa Flanders from LWB Huainan aka Huai Rui Wa
Love Without Boundaries is a charity that makes a real difference in the lives of children every day. I have seen this first hand because LWB funded critical medical and foster care that my daughter received in China. I have photos of my daughter in the hospital grinning from ear to ear because LWB not only funded her surgery but brought her a giant teddy bear to cheer her up! LWB is an organization with great heart that delivers vital services to children in need. I will be forever grateful for what they have done.
I have been volunteering with LWB for three months now. I have followed their work for about a year and finally decided that I wanted to be a part of something that was actually making a differnce in the world and in these children's lives. I am the coordinator for the Secondary and HIgher Education Program in Hunan and I have seen the difference that this program is making in these students lives. I have seen the pictures, read the reports and seen hope sustain these kids through some very difficult situtaions. These kids are given an opportunity to change their lives and the lives of the families through the money that people donate to them. Education is a vital part of all out lives and these kids are working so hard to make their dreams come true. LWB is helping them to do that and it is awesome to watch!
I have volunteered for LWB for coming up on 6 years, in various capacities, currently as the Director of Nutrition and Orphanage Assistance. No way would I still be volunteering for a charity I didn't believe in. So much amazing work is done. The donors are wonderful. The volunteers give so much. Children's lives are truly affexted, one child at a time.
Our daughter was part of the LWB program in Loudi. She came to us on-track developmentally, healthy, well-adjusted, and was clearly used to being in a family setting. Foster care is so important and LWB not only provides sponsors for foster care, but also keeps monthly records for each child. After our adoption was complete, we received numerous pictures and reports of our daughter's early life. Precious pieces of her history that we all will treasure forever.
My child was served by medical (cleft repair) , education, and foster care. She was five when we met this spring and was on target developmentally and obviously was well loved and cared for. What could have been a challenging adoption was relatively easy. My daughter's care prepared her for accepting the love of a family and attending school at grade level. We are blessed and lucky that our daughter was cared for by Love Without Boundaries.
Our daughter received exceptional nutritional assistance through this organization as an infant. We were SO grateful once we met her and got her home that she was healthy and well nourished. This made such a difference in her development. I can't thank them enough!
Enjoy the website and the pics of the children as well as their stories. My own beautiful daughter (from Wuhan, Hubei) is now 17.
Our family has been personally affected by LWB's amazing educational program. We were blessed to adopt our 4 year old son from Jinjiang, China in Sept. 2010. His orphanage is part of the LWB nutritional, educational, & medical program. Our was son was a student in the phenomenal preschool that was offered by LWB to his orphanage. He was given the opportunity to attend daily class and I know he truly enjoyed that time with his classmates and teachers. LWB gave our son a precious gift...the gift to be noticed and cared for...the gift to be part of a structured environment where he was loved as an individual and encouraged to excel and have fun.
Love Without Boundaries is an awesome organization that helps children with medical needs as well as provide foster care for institutionalized children in China. Working in adoptions from China, I will sometimes come across a child that might not be adopted and is in dire need of help just to survive. I know I can contact LWB and they will immediately do everything they can to help the child. Whether it's through their medical, educational, or foster care program, LWB has saved or greatly improved the lives of hundreds of children in China.
I found this organisaztion through friends. For quite a while I have been reading a the news letters and the stories on facebook but not yet contributing more than spreading the word. However some time ago I read about a young lady from an orphange who manage to pass an univesity test but could not afford the tution fee. We have for some years lived in China and our children is getting a great education. Education is so important and for many children and youth here in China it is their only way to a bettter life. But without many there is no way. So we gave a litlle and talked a lot and spread the word to friends. The our children decided to give their allowance and slowly the tution fee of 1500 dollar was raised. The day when I got the meassage that the girl could sign up for her courses I was so happy. I am so grateful for the work Love without boundaries is doing. I am proud to be able to be a part of a organization that helps children and young people to reach their potential and dreams!
Our daughter was in the Love Without Boundaries foster care program in Loudi, China in 2006 prior to her adoption. We are forever grateful for the program. Our daughter had a family that gave her love, affection, and attention that she might not have received had she been one of many in an orphanage. She adjusted very well to her forever family because of that individualized care. Everyone at Love Without Boundaries are heroes to so many children and their families.
Love without boundaries does amazing working with the least priveleged children in china. We are adopting a little 2 year old special needs boy that love without boundaries sponsored his care and got him into an incredible foster home. Their work allowed our little guy's cleft lip and palate to be fixed and they are ensuring he is cared for until we can travel to china. Their appeals to their supporters has certainly raised awareness of the splight of special needs and has given life to hundreds of children. The unity fund which helps families who cannot afford healthcare ( these families consider giving their children away toget them medical treatment) is one of the most amazing projects. They allow families to stay together.
They truly are making a difference in the lives of so many...one child at a time.
I have seen the work that LWB does for the children and rural families in China for 8+ years now and know that they have saved lives and changed countless more lives around the world by what they are doing for the children of China. No child is turned away, every child matters, they care deeply, they cry when a child doesn't make it, they cry when help comes too late, they work countless hours for these children, all as volunteers, none of them for a salary, they do so much because they truly want to be the difference in the life of a child, being able to LIVE! So that every child might be able to live, have good nutrition, a good education, quality medical care & of all, to know unconditional love of a forever family.
While neither of my Chinese adopted daughters benifitted directly from Love Without Boundaries, both of their orphanages have since become homes to numerous LWB programs! I couldn't ever in my lifetime say enough positive words about Love Without Boundaries. Their name describes exactly who they are and what they do. They Love children Without and Boundaries holding them back from their goals!!!!! The simple fact the Chinese government trusts them enough to allow them to do their work proves endless coups on their part!!!
We (my husband, I, my church) have been donors to LWB over the past several years and with many programs (medical, educational). LWB has changed the lives of so many through their programs. They are quick to respond to a need. Everyone I have dealt with at LWB has always been accessible and lives out their motto "Every child counts." They are good stewards of funds. You are assured that what you intend for your money to do, they will put it to that use with minimal overhead. They are the model of how charitable organizations should operate. I love, love, love, Love Without Boundaries!
My daughter was an orphan in China and was enrolled in a Preschool program in her orphanage that made a huge impact on her. She received extra attention and was encouraged to learn in a safe environment with teachers who cared about her well being. We were able to adopt her about 6 months later and she had no developmental delays at all. Our daughter has special needs and they didn't allow that to interfere with her right to have love and education. I am very thankful and supportive of Love Without Boundaries and the love they have for children and the right of every child to receive medical care, nutrition, education and love.
Mary Ann Day
Love Without Boundaries has done immeasurable work to help orphaned children in China. We adopted our daughter in 2006 and were so distressed to see the conditions in which the children had to live in her orphanage. No toys, very little attention, etc. Just monts later, LWB went in and started a preschool and a foster care program. In addition, a playground was added for the children. This is just one area they made a huge difference, they have done the same at numerous orphanages in China.
I can't imagine an organization that provides more "hands on" good than Love Without Boundaries Foundation. The work they do is so desperately needed, and life-changing to those they serve. They are angels to children who have nothing, and their work is truly remarkable.
Love Without Boundaries started as the dream of one adoptive mother, who I have had the pleasure of knowing for over 10 years. We started our journeys to adopt childen in China at the same time and I've watched her dream grow with the addition of hundreds of other adoptive parents and people who care about orphans and poor children. LWB uses every cent possible to change the lives of children in China through their nutritional programs, medical care and educational facitilies. With an administrative overhead of less than 10%, my family and friends are assured that our donations are making a difference in the world.
We love Love Without Boundaries!
This charity is amazing! They work they do in furthering the lives of young children and orphans is truly inspirational and something that I love being a part of.
Having two beautiful healthy children from China, I wanted to find a way to keep giving back to those children who have not yet found their forever family . The work LWB does is amazing... over the past two years we have helped to fund heart surgeries and have sponsored a couple of children in Foster Care.
LWB is a godsend to the orphans and rural children in China.
As an adoptive parent of a daughter born with special needs from China, I am SO proud of the work that Love Without Boundaries does on behalf of the children in need. From helping families stay together, to transforming lives by providing life-changing, life-saving care, via nutrition, education, surgeries and aftercare through healing homes and foster families, they are truly an amazing organization and have more-than lived up to their name by showing true and unconditional LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES!!
Love Without Boundaries is one of the most caring organizations I have ever had the pleasure to know. They do a fabulous job getting suport, caring for and loving very special children. I am grateful for their work
This is a wonderful chairty that helps orphaned and ill children who desperately need medical attention. Through LWB, these children are provided with the medical attention no matter how much and how specialized the care needed is. They never cease to stop, thankfully!!! They give these children a chance for a very healthy and happy life!! Without LWB, these children most of which would die. Some would survive with little ability to thrieve and be adopted. I firmly believe in Love Without Boundaries and have donated several thousands of dollars to these children, proudly, because they are so deserving. Each chlid is in my heart. Thank you.
Actually, my daughter is one of the many "clients" served by LWB. When she was an orphan, living in China, LWB ran a nutrition program in the orphanage system where my daughter was being cared for. Their oversight and generousity provided not just my daughter but many precious babies with healthy food and formula. Their broad-based care programs provide such a wonderful variety of resources, and their commitment to helping families care for their children within China as well as caring for orphans while they wait for families makes LWB one of our favorite non-profits to support and share with friends.
We love Love Without Boundaries! They do such extraordinary work in China, and we are proud to support their efforts there. Thank you, LWB, for all you do for the children of China!
Love Without Boundaries is a wonderful organization. I leared about their work while we were waiting to travel to China to adopt our baby girl. About that same time, they were beginning a nutrition program at our daughter's orphanage. It was a wonderful way for us to help provide for our daughter's basic needs until we were able to go and get her. Now we are able to do the same for other precious children. They do so many things to improve the quality of life for orphans. I love this organization.
I am a mother of two little girls adopted from China. I feel very blessed and wanted to help other orphans in China. I had heard of Love Without Boundaries and was familiar with their work in China. Then I had the opportunity to hear Amy Eldridge, founder, speak about her organization. I was hooked. I made my first donation that night. I began receiving reports and keeping up to date with all Love Without Boundaries does. They really help children in need. My primary experience has been with Heartbridge. This is one of their healing homes that brings in medically fragile orphans and takes care of them before, during and after their surgery. You can see the results in their pictures and reports. These children receive the love and care necessary to heal. I wish I was more eloquent. I just want everyone to know that this organization is amazing. Please visit their website and check them out. Please donate to this awesome charity.
I can't sing the praises of LWB loudly enough! I have an adopted daughter from China and my heart hurts for the orphans left behind, especially those with special medical needs. Love Without Boundaries seems to work miracles at times with the orphans under their care. I have sponsored several children in their Heartbridge Healing Home and have watched their progress with amazement. These babies have a chance for a real life and the love a family because of the extraordinary work done by the volunteers at LWB and their employees in China. They do so much with the donations. I'm impressed with their stewardship of their funds and their desire to maximize the benefits for the children they are helping.
Love Without Boundaries is truly the most authentic organization I know of!
Started by an every day mom moved by what she saw in an orphanage while she was adopting her child from China. She came home, couldn't shake off what she had seen, prayed, and miracles happened and continue to happen. Why? Because she put love into actual action. Orphans have the very heart of God and He backs people who fight for orphans. God puts all Heaven behind saving the lives of these hero children. The bottom line question to ask yourself is this; "Is there anything sadder in life than a sick child alone in the world?"
Since there is not. Love Without Boundaries works for change in this world!
They are simply the BEST! They make a difference by saving one child at a time!
I am the mom of three children adopted from China. Two of them were lucky enough to be in Social Welfare Institutions where LWB works. LWB's programs benefit so many children. My kids were helped by the nutrition and educational programs and we are certain that LWB's support helped them become the healthy and happy children they are today. We currently help sponsor the education of a child in the SWI my daughter is from.
I was briefly a volunteer for LWB (would still be one if not for a full-time job and the activities of three kids) and so got a first-hand look at the organization. I can't imagine a group of volunteers that are more dedicated and passionate about their work. LWB has made a huge difference in the lives of so many people all over the world, not just the children they help, but the families who have been blessed by adopting these children. Love Without Boundaries is an amazing organization!
I am an adoptive parent currently in process of adopting two more children. I heard that the Social Welfare Institute, where my children are waiting for me, was lacking in providing stimulation and I approached Love Without Boundaries to see if they could help make a difference for the children in the SWI if we could raise the necessary funds. Love Without Boundaries was very open to helping and contacted the SWI director to make sure providing developmental toys and things would be well received. I am happy to say that we've raised enough money and Love Without Boundaries is now working to get the things in place in the SWI so the children can get the stimulation they need to grow and develop. I have found Love Without Boundaries to be caring, professional and quick in communication. You can see their love for the children they serve showing in all of the work that they do, which is great and serves many orphans. I also know that the vast majority of the money that is donated is going directly to helping orphans since LWB overhead is so low. That especially makes me feel good about advocating for people to donate to this organization and I know their work is making a difference in the lives of children.
I've been a volunteer with LWB since 2004. I love thinking that a group of people from all over the world can work together to truly save and change the lives of children in China. LWB really strives to work within the Chinese culture and with the Chinese people and also to make sure that everything that we do is done with the "whole child" in mind.
One of my adopted children was a beneficiary of LWB programs and I know that it has made such a difference in her life. I often wonder what her life would have been like without the intervention that LWB provided, since she is considered a child with "special needs."
I feel very privileged to be a part of the LWB family and to have a part in touching lives every day!
I love the work that LWB does! It is so wonderful to work with a group of people who all have the best interest of the children at heart. The level of dedication is amazing, the number of volunteer employees who stay for YEARS is remarkable as well.
This is a wonderful organization that uses its resources well, is very organized, and really cares about the children served. They do not waste their donors money and really strive to give the children the best care possible.
The amount of love within LWB is incredible. I have been a volunteer with LWB for nearly 3 years, and I look forward to the many, many more years ahead!
In 2004 LWB did a cleft medical mission to China and repaired the lips of twin girls that had been orphaned the prior year. Six months later we adopted the twins and upon finding out that LWB had been responsible for their marvelous repair (a plastic surgeon that specializes in cleft repairs at Miami Chjildren's Hospital claims they were two of the best repairs he had ever seen) my wife and I volunteered to work with LWB and in 2006 I was asked to serve on the Board. This organization has a total heart for China's orphans. LWB uses over 90% of the funds they collect to fund medical, education, healing homes, foster care and nutrition programs. There are no fat cats with fat salaries - just great people giving in some cases 40 hours or more to help these kids with no remuneration. If you are looking to find a charity that truly does what it says - this is the one.
I recently had two opportunities to speak to large groups on the work that Love Without Boundaries does. As a volunteer, I see a lot of the detail that goes on day to day, yet in preparing my presentations, I realized how much all of the little things add up to helping so many children in very significant ways. Education, medical, healing home, foster care, nutrition and orphanage assistance combine to provide for the whole child while LWB advocates for permanent families. And, oh, the joy, when we hear from a family that their new son or daughter is doing well in their new families!
I first came across LWB right after we adopted our first son from China. I subscribed to "LWB NEWS". Shortly after there was a post about a need for sponsors for a young man who was wheelchairbound because his bones in his legs broke when he walked. He needed surgery to put rods in his legs so he could work. He was an orphan who had "aged out" and so he would have to support himself. My heart went out to him. Fixing his legs seemed like his only hope. Not being an outgoing person, I somehow asked people around me to help sponsor his surgery. When I collected all the funds for his surgery, I sent it thinking tht was it. I knew a young man would have surgery and, Lord willing, would be able to walk one day. To my surprise I received photos of him and updates on his rehabilitation after surgery. Many months later I got additional photos of him walking! i was so thankful for these updates and my only connection to him. The days I got these updates always made the day brighter. Currently he has a job and he is doing well in society. Praise God for Love Without Boundaries.
My two youngest children were adopted from China. After traveling to bring my daughters home, on two separate trips, I was left worrying about the children who were left behind in the crowded orphanages. I would watch my own girls sleeping in their comfortable and warm beds and wonder about the "brothers and sisters" still living as orphans in China. I was initially drawn to Love Without Boundaries because their work centers on the children who remain in China, waiting for families of their own. As I learned more about this foundation and all the amazing work they have done, I knew I wanted to volunteer my time and resources to help them accomplish their mission. Joining Love Without Boundaries as a volunteer was one of the best decisions I ever made. Every day I know I make a difference in the lives of the orphans who are still waiting in China to be adopted. Both of my daughters lived with foster families in China before being adopted. I believe the individual love and attention they received in their homes greatly improved their development and well-being and showed them how to give and receive love. I now volunteer with the Love Without Boundaries Foster Care Program. It is incredibly meaningful for me to help other children benefit from foster care they way my own children did until they were adopted. This program is changing lives for these children.
Love Without Boundaries is a fantastic organizations. The vast majority of all donations go directly to assisting the children, as all staff volunteer their time. Everyone involved has such a caring heart and the results of the work the organization does is very evident in the progress children are making. Donors receive regular updates on the children or projects they are supporting as well as hand-written thank you notes from the project coordinators. I am also an adoption social worker and have actually met children who have been part of LWB programs after they come home with their adoptive families. The fact that some of these children are even still alive, as several were born with complex medical issues that LWB arranged and paid for medical treatment for, is a testament to the wonderful work LWB does!
Both of my daughters were adopted from China and there is a desire to give back to help other children. However, I am very cautious about donating to organizations unless I can see some accountability for the funds. This is where Love Without Boundaries stands out. Due to the volunteer structure of the organization, only a very small percent of funding is need to support administration. The true test is the results that sponsors can see on the sponsor reports and the medical missions. After supporting this organization through donations, I also became a volunteer. That's when I found out what heart the organization has. Daily e-mails flow around the world to find the best ways to help these children in need. The energy of this organization is incredible.