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Due Diligence Visit: SEAPC Children's Home

6/22/2016

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TFish representative John Kieu visited the Kampong Cham Children's Home in Cambodia on June 4, 2016. He met the orphans in the current home and also saw the new dorms being constructed that we are helping to build.
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Traveling Dirt Roads

On Saturday, June 4, 2016 Pastor Sinai and his associate led our team of 10 to the children's home in Kampong Cham. We took Pastor Sinai's car and our van to get there. The home is about 80 kilometers from our headquarters, and the journey took about 90 minutes. We arrived at the destination at approximately 11 AM. The home is located in the rural areas of Kampong Cham province, outside of the city center. Once off the main highway, we had to take a dirt road to the site.
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Grant Report 2016 Q1: One Heart World-Wide

5/16/2016

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January – April, 2016 

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District Health Office building in Bhojpur District, Nepal

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Bhojpur is a hill district located in the northeastern part of Nepal. It is home to 172,098 people, and reports 4,474 pregnancies per year.  In 2014, One Heart World-Wide started the needs assessment process for this district, but due to the earthquakes that destroyed parts of Nepal in 2015, we had to pause our initial program activities and focus on districts such as Dhading and Sindhupalchok, where over 90% of the health facilities sustained either full or partial damage.

​In late 2015, we started up our program activities in Bhojpur again, and in 2016, we have started rolling out the second phase of our Network of Safety – Program Implementation. Over the next three years, we will train community outreach providers, implement a community outreach program, upgrade health facilities into birthing centers, and train Skilled Birth Attendants. We will also develop a basic health infrastructure, provide health education, and foster community empowerment in collaboration with the local District Health Department. Our goal for the next five years is to double the rate of deliveries with a Skilled Birth Attendant, and reduce the maternal and neonatal mortality by at least 50%.
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Press Release: EdTech Program Prepares Underprivileged Children for Tech Dependent Job Market

4/15/2016

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Chao Foundation and Transparent Fish Fund collectively donated $112,908 to Orphan Impact in March 2016, which will enable their computer training programs to expand from Vietnam into China this year. $64,908 of the grant will go toward the pilot program for migrant children in China.
 
Orphan Impact equips disadvantaged students with the critical thinking and technology skills they need to succeed in the future. Orphan Impact has already trained over 600 Vietnamese children in 20 different orphanages. $48,000 of this year’s grant will go toward expanding the program in Vietnam to 10 more orphanages, bringing the total to 30.
 
The international expansion of the program will enable Orphan Impact to establish computer classes in 2 Chinese migrant schools. The pilot program will be started in Shanghai in partnership with Stepping Stones. Stepping Stones is a nonprofit charitable organization with a mission to improve the education and welfare of underprivileged children in China.
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Quarterly Report Q1 2016: One Heart Bhojpur District

3/16/2016

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By the end of November 2015, OHW conducted a need assessment for the district, as well as reviewed the secondary data. We set up our field office in January of this year (attached a photo), and hired a district coordinator, a training supervisor, as well as an administration coordinator. By February 1st, 2016, our program, the Network of Safety, was formally launched with the local government and the local stakeholders. So far we have installed 15 solar suitcases in existing birthing centers. This allows the local Skilled Birth Attendants to provide a safe delivery, especially during the nighttime. In addition we have have identified 9 women from respective birthing centers in the district that have been admitted to attend the 2 month training, conducted by the Nepali government within their national SBA training program. Their training will begin shortly. OHW is not only sponsoring their training, but providing them with the necessary equipment. Lastly we so far have assessed 10 birthing centers in the district that we will upgrade and equip in 2016, and in collaboration with the local Village Development Committee. Our overall target for 2016 is to fully and / or partially upgrade and equip 15 to 20 birthing centers, train 30 to 40 Skilled Birth Attendants, and train approximately 780 community outreach providers.
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Event: Attending Kidspire's Evening of Hope

3/16/2016

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We had a wonderful time in Portland attending our strategic partner, Kidspire - Orphan Impact's gala. Supporters generously gave over $200,000, and we were able to announce our grant to them this year on stage.

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China Cal Runs Two Programs in Yunnan Province, China

9/16/2015

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Chao Foundation partners with China Cal to run two programs in Yunnan Province, China focused on treating congenital heart disease.

1) The Yunnan Province Newborn Training Program

This program, initiated in 2012, has a goal of training every obstetrician and obstetrical nurse in all 125 Yunnan county hospitals how to properly examine newborns’ hearts to detect early congenital heart disease, especially critical congenital heart disease of the newborn (CCHD). To train one doctor or nurse costs about $25.

a. Dr. Li Ya Ni, a cardiology resident at Kunming Medical University, trains rural OB doctors and nurses the proper technique for examining hearts of newborns.
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b. Ms. Guo Fang Qi is a PhD graduate student in public health at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Ms. Guo is from Harbin, a city in the northeast part of China.  She trains OB doctors and nurses how to properly use pulse oximetry to test for abnormal oxygen saturation in newborns. She is also making the evaluation of the training program the subject of her PhD thesis at UCI.

c. Ms. Zhang Rui is a native of Dali, China with a college degree in economics. She assists in teaching nurses and doctors and answering their questions. She also arranges logistics of travel and financial issues regarding the program.
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Press Release: Orphan Impact Administrative Grant

9/2/2015

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Orphan Impact is pleased to announce that our computer and internet training project for orphan children in Vietnam has received a grant award of $30,000 from the Transparent Fish Fund and Chao Foundation, key strategic partners of Orphan Impact. The grant will help to support the Orphan Impact goal of developing 10 new orphanage computer labs throughout Southern and Central Vietnam in 2015.

Since 2009 Orphan Impact has provided computer and internet training courses to more than 1,200 orphan children in 20 orphanages with the goal of providing important technology training to orphans to help them be better prepared for their futures beyond the orphanage.

About Transparent Fish Fund
Transparent Fish Fund is a 501©(3) US non-profit organization founded in 2011 in Palo Alto, California, established exclusively for charitable purposes to connect credible Chinese and East Asian grassroots NGOs with individuals from the West. The greater mission behind this work is to foster a sustainable long-term NGO culture in East Asia, and in doing so, spread a global spirit of philanthropy.

About Chao Foundation
The Ping & Amy Chao Family Foundation was founded in Silicon Valley by high technology entrepreneur Ping Chao and his wife Amy in 2005. The foundation's missions are to improve the health and wellbeing of children in disadvantaged regions worldwide, and promote a spirit of philanthropy and awareness of nonprofit and service opportunities among Asian Americans as well as the younger generation in East Asia. The foundation accomplishes these goals through implementing its own programs, as well as through grants to organizations with similar missions.

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Partner Update: China Cal Yunnan Province Pediatric Heart Training and Evaluation Program

6/20/2015

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China Cal’s program to train county doctors to properly examine newborns is progressing as planned. With the help of a grant from The Ping and Amy Chao Foundation of Los Altos, CA, China Cal has added an evaluation component and a University of California, Irvine Program In Public Health PhD graduate student. Ms Fangqi Guo, who will be the principal investigator for an evaluative study of the training program, will work with the China Cal team in Yunnan for several months this year. We are also grateful to the Masimo Corporation for their kind gift of 125 pulse oximeters to be used in each of the rural Yunnan county hospitals for screening newborns for critical congenital heart disease.

The following is a summary of PhD candidate Fangqi Guo’s research plan.
Undiagnosed congenital cardiac shunt lesions with pulmonary hypertension and critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) kill 3 to 4 of every thousand children in developing countries. Most of these heart defects are completely curable if discovered early in life. Yunnan Province is a slowly developing province of China. The estimated number of infants that die from these heart defects is about 400 per year. Pulse oximetry is an effective screening method to detect CCHD in very early stage. We will  provide rural Yunnan county hospitals, where most babies are now born, with equipment and training for doctors and nurses responsible for the care of neonates. We will train these doctors regarding proper neonatal cardiac examination. We will evaluate the increased knowledge and change in behaviour of these trainees. Though rural Yunnan is one of the poorest regions of China, both medical insurance options and financial assistance mechanisms are growing and the level of medical care is continuously improving. The conditions for increased awareness and discovery of undiagnosed congenital heart cases are therefore ideal for addressing this problem in Yunnan Province.

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Press Release: China California Heart Watch Pilot Project

8/24/2014

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The China California Heart Watch and the Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation of Silicon Valley, CA will collaborate in a pilot project to support surgical care for Yunnan children with congenital heart disease. All children receiving support from this collaboration will undergo corrective surgery at KMU First Affiliate Hospital in Kunming, Yunnan Province, This pilot project will enhance additional support that the China California Heart Watch and one of its partner organizations, the Children's Heart Link of Minneapolis, MN, are providing to KMU to improve the quality of its care for children in Yunnan Province. 

About Chao Foundation
The Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation was founded in California’s Silicon Valley in 2005 by Ping Chao and his wife Amy. The foundation was established to fund nonprofit and public welfare initiatives that (1) improve children’s health in developing countries; and (2) nurture a spirit of philanthropy among the younger generation in China and of the greater Chinese Diaspora. While the Chao Foundation is based in the Bay Area and has local projects, many of its programs focus on developing countries in East Asia, from China and Cambodia to Vietnam.
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Press Release: Orphan Impact Administrative Grant

5/1/2014

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Orphan Impact is pleased to be the recipient of a $25,000 grant from the Chao Foundation and Transparent Fish Fund. The funds have been granted to support the Orphan Impact computer and internet training program for 288 orphan children, age 8 to 17, in orphanages throughout Vietnam. This is the second consecutive year Orphan Impact has received a grant from the Chao Foundation and Transparent Fish Fund. The generosity of this grant has been instrumental in helping Orphan Impact to strengthen core program areas and expand to reach more children in more orphanages.

About Transparent Fish Fund
Transparent Fish Fund is a 501©(3) US non-profit organization founded in 2011 in Palo Alto, California, established exclusively for charitable purposes to connect credible Chinese and East Asian grassroots NGOs with individuals from the West. The greater mission behind this work is to foster a sustainable long-term NGO culture in East Asia, and in doing so, spread a global spirit of philanthropy.

About Chao Foundation
The Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation was founded in California’s Silicon Valley in 2005 by Ping Chao and his wife Amy. The foundation was established to fund nonprofit and public welfare initiatives that (1) improve children’s health in developing countries; and (2) nurture a spirit of philanthropy among the younger generation in China and of the greater Chinese Diaspora. While the Chao Foundation is based in the Bay Area and has local projects, many of its programs focus on developing countries in East Asia, from China and Cambodia to Vietnam.
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