Social Welfare

Amity emphasizes rehabilitation and training educators for children with special needs — those isolated by a hearing impairment, afflicted by polio, or orphaned as infants. Amity has initiated and supported a variety of training programs in cooperation with specialists in and outside of the country. Amity’s work with children marks a unique approach to care within China that involves volunteers, parents, community, administrators, and front line staff and an underlying belief in the child’s potential.

Example Projects

Hospice Project

Since 1996 Amity has cooperated with the Department of Health in Nanjing on a hospice project. Today the hospice offers care for around 30 people with an average age of 80.

Housing project for leprosy victims in Jiangsu Province

Houses in 20 leprosy villages are on the brink of collapsing and leaking. Over 700 elderly people who are both handicapped and alone suffer within this vile living environment. There is an urgent need to repair or rebuild these insecure houses

The Home of Blessings; Nanjing, 2003 (An activity center for mentally handicapped young adults)

Training program for parents with autistic children

There are few organizations specialized in autism diagnosis and intervention in China, which prevents most Chinese autistic children from receiving early diagnosis and treatment. The main focus of this project is the Home of Blessings and the Amity Bakery. Both these projects are pioneering of their kind and help the Amity Foundation to remain focused on the needs of those in our society who are less fortunate.

Providing basic daily necessities and supplying rehabilitation equipment for orphanages

These projects involve providing orphanages with basic daily necessities and supplying rehabilitation equipment, such as toddlers’ walkers, crutches, wheelchairs, winter blankets, baby milk powder, incubators, washing machines, and playground equipment, etc. Amity provides medical support by sponsoring medical treatment and surgery for the children.