Orphans in rural China don't have access to the same medical treatments as children in the big city. Sometimes these rural kids are born with life-threatening conditions and the only way to save them is to get surgeries at a major city hospital. That's where the Baobei Foundation comes in. They raise funds to bring rural orphans to Shanghai to get the live-saving procedures they need.

Afterwards, Baobei puts these children in their healing home network, consisting of local and expat families that take care of the children (with their own money) until the child is adopted. They generally have about 30 kids in healing homes at any given point in time. "The aim of the family environment is to meet [the children's] emotional needs and physical needs, so that when they are adopted, which can take two to three years and four to five years in extreme cases, they will have learned how to bond socially," says Posy Pearson, one of Baobei's organizers. Posy has a young boy missing the lower chamber of his heart living with her family that Baobei saved by funding a life-saving heart surgery. He's the sixth that has stayed with her while awaiting adoption. "It's incredibly emotional to look after a child for so long, then they suddenly go. But you do it because you know you've done the best for that child to better prepare them for their family." Surgeries generally cost around 60,000rmb per child. Baobei does fundraising throughout the year and on December 1 they have a luncheon at D.O.C. Gastronomia Italiana. Seats for the event is already sold out, but you can get raffle tickets that will be drawn on the event. Several great sponsors are donating goods and services for the raffle -- you have a chance to win two roundtrip tickets to Auckland, a one week stay in a Luxury Villa in Italy, a trip to Danang Vietnam, and more. You can get these tickets on SmartTicket for 50rmb per piece or 200rmb for five. We aren't charging commission on these, so 100% of your donation goes to Baobei. We'll hand the tickets with your name and contact info to Baobei so that they can be drawn at the event. If you win, Baobei will contact you with your prize. But most of all, your donation will go towards saving a child's life, or at the very least, greatly improving their quality of life.