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Colo. Group Rallies To Help Orphans In Earthquake

Written by Paul Day

 Slideshow: China Picks Up Pieces After 7.9 Quake

DENVER (CBS4) ― A Centennial-based organization is helping to send relief to Chinese orphans affected by Monday's earthquake disaster.

"There are several orphanage buildings already damaged," said Joshua Zhong, co-founder and president of Chinese Children Adoption International.

It's the largest adoption organization in the world for Chinese children.

Since the early 1990s, CCAI has found homes in Colorado for 2,500 Chinese orphans.

Zhong has close relations to orphanages run by the Chinese government.

He's particularly concerned about two orphanages in hard-hit Sichaun Province at Deyang and Mianyang.

"They need tents, water and food obviously and warm clothes and medicine," he explains. "These are very, very urgent needs."

As of Thursday, there were no confirmed casualties involving Chinese orphans, but "the liklihood is huge," according to Zhong.

For Zhong, the disaster is personal. One of his own daughters was once a Chinese orphan.

He says the money raised by his relief effort will first go to emergency supplies and medicine, but donations will also be used to help rebuild.

Additional Resources

chinesechildren.org

There are five orphanages in the earthquake area in China. The Chinese Students and Scholars Association is collecting donations in Boulder all weekend at the following locations:

-- Thursday and Friday, May 15 and 16, from noon to 1 p.m.:
Near Broadway and Euclid Avenue outside the University Memorial Center
Near Colorado Avenue and Regent Drive outside the Engineering Center Near Broadway and College Avenue outside the Colorado Bookstore on University Hill

-- Saturday and Sunday, May 17 and 18, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.:
At the 29th Street Mall outside Borders Bookstore
Outside King Soopers near Broadway and Table Mesa Drive

-- Saturday and Sunday, May 17 and 18, from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.:
On the Pearl Street Mall near Broadway and Pearl Street

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