She struggles to save lives that have already been considered lost.įor Meredith “every life is worth a chance no matter how poor the prognosis looks … No matter how risky the surgery may be and no matter how much everyone is saying, ‘they’ll never survive,’ that child is still worth someone saying, ‘You know what? They might not, but it’s worth it to try.’ Their life deserves that.” Most of the babies at Morning Star were considered medically hopeless by their previous orphanage, but Meredith doesn’t give up so easily. Once they are there, Meredith fights with them and for them. I just started freaking out.”Īgainst all odds, Meredith’s parents were able to adopt Brooke into their family. “Her little-broken heart broke mine … So I’m here,” Meredith says of her position at Morning Star.Īll of the children come to “The Little House of Brave” fighting for their lives. I scrolled down and it was a picture of Brooke and me together. Meredith vividly remembers the moment, “I got an email saying that a new little girl named ‘Caroline’ had been added to the list. When Meredith returned to the States, she was in the Samford University food court when she received a life-changing email out of the blue from Rainbow Kids, an advocacy group for special needs and older orphans around the world. “And then I had to leave her at the end of the summer and I was just heartbroken.” She had finally gotten to the point where she trusted me and loved me too.” Meredith remembers. “I had worked with her for weeks and weeks and weeks all summer. One summer during college, Meredith interned at a special needs foster home in China and she was assigned a baby named Brooke.
Meredith’s involvement with Morning Star began with a miracle. Meredith calls this home her “Little House of Brave” where true heroes of China’s orphan crisis live bravely every day. From the outside, the house appears to be a typical, residential home, but through its doors is a loving family that is exceptional and extraordinary in every way.
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In the face of these difficult circumstances, Meredith and the Morning Star Family Home are full of hope and courage. Meredith openly shares, “It’s just the most gut-wrenching, heartbreaking realization to know that a family chose to give up their child because that was the only way that they could think of to save their lives.” With no insurance and no government programs to help, many parents feel they have no choice but to hope their baby will get medical care from an orphanage. For many in China, it is impossible to obtain that much money. Meredith explains that it is usually necessary to have about $10,000 in cash as a down payment before it is possible to get heart surgery. Someone, please help our child to live.’ ” We’re so concerned that our baby is going to die.
“The notes say ‘we have spent all of our money. “I was starting to get these babies coming into my home all with very complex heart disease … They would have notes with them,” Meredith says softly. In the suburbs of Beijing, Meredith Toering and the Morning Star Foundation run a foster home for these abandoned babies. Unfortunately, many babies inside China’s orphanages have been abandoned by families who could not afford the medical care needed to save their lives. T ragic goodbyes characterize China’s orphan crisis.
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