What Baobei Means
'Baobei' means 'precious one' in Chinese. Baobei Foundation believes that every single baby and child is precious and deserves the best chance at enjoying a healthy life.
What Baobei Is
Baobei Foundation is US 501c3 nonprofit organization based in Shanghai. We are an orphan-focused charity, dedicated to improving the lives of orphaned Chinese babies.
Baobei Foundation is a charity working with Shanghai locals, expatriates and international businesses to raise funds and volunteer support. We work with Shanghai Children’s Medical Center to provide neurological & GI (gastrointestinal ) surgeries and aftercare to Chinese orphans. Click here to meet our team.
The History of Baobei
Baobei was founded in April 2008 in Shanghai, China by four women who felt passionately compelled to utilize the excellent surgical expertise, medical facilities and close relationships at SCMC to benefit orphans needing neurological and GI surgeries.
A new and passionate organization run by a group of over 200 volunteers who contribute a huge and highly diverse range of social and professional skills that enable the accomplishment of Baobei's mission. Despite the wide variety of abililties of our volunteers, there is one common thread that runs throughout the Foundation - an endless compassion for these precious orphaned Chinese babies.
Baobei began by helping just a few orphaned babies, in partnership with the surgeons at Shanghai Children's Medical Center (SCMC). However, due to both our cofounders’ and the surgeons' passion and determination along with the tremendous generosity and support of our donors and volunteers, the number of infants Baobei is able to help is increasing all the time.
What Baobei Is
Baobei Foundation is US 501c3 nonprofit organization based in Shanghai. We are an orphan-focused charity, dedicated to improving the lives of orphaned Chinese babies.
Baobei Foundation is a charity working with Shanghai locals, expatriates and international businesses to raise funds and volunteer support. We work with Shanghai Children’s Medical Center to provide neurological & GI (gastrointestinal ) surgeries and aftercare to Chinese orphans. Click here to meet our team.
The History of Baobei
Baobei was founded in April 2008 in Shanghai, China by four women who felt passionately compelled to utilize the excellent surgical expertise, medical facilities and close relationships at SCMC to benefit orphans needing neurological and GI surgeries.
A new and passionate organization run by a group of over 200 volunteers who contribute a huge and highly diverse range of social and professional skills that enable the accomplishment of Baobei's mission. Despite the wide variety of abililties of our volunteers, there is one common thread that runs throughout the Foundation - an endless compassion for these precious orphaned Chinese babies.
Baobei began by helping just a few orphaned babies, in partnership with the surgeons at Shanghai Children's Medical Center (SCMC). However, due to both our cofounders’ and the surgeons' passion and determination along with the tremendous generosity and support of our donors and volunteers, the number of infants Baobei is able to help is increasing all the time. 
How Baobei Works
Baobei Foundation has currently established relationships with about five orphanages. We work with the orphanage directors who identify children needing GI or neuorological surgeries, raise funds, facilitate transport of the orphans from their orphanage to Shanghai, and follow them through their surgeries and aftercare.
- The process begins with an orphanage director contacting Baobei to report a baby in need of GI or neuro surgery.
- Baobei raises money to cover the necessary surgery for the child while the doctors at SCMC review and diagnose the child’s condition.
- After funds have been raised, an accompanying caregiver from the orphanage travels to the Shanghai Children's Medical Center (SCMC) with the child.
- The child awaiting surgery is assigned a bed in either the Pediatrics ward of SCMC or in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), depending on the disorder and urgency of the child's condition. Surgery is booked according to the doctor's recommendation, and paid for by Baobei.
- If the baby has a caregiver, this person stays alongside the baby 24 hours a day, looking after him/her. Baobei's volunteers visit the hospital to bring the caregiver refreshment and to give her a well-earned break from caring for the child. Baobei funds the caregiver's stay in a guest house while the child is in surgery or ICU.
- Surgery is performed when the surgeon deems necessary and, depending on the individual circumstances, the child will either be returned to the ICU or Pediatrics ward to begin recovery. The child is usually encouraged to stay in the hospital for approximately 10 days of recovery.
- The child is next placed in a healing center to ensure effective healing is accomplished.
- The child is finally returned to their original orphanage or to a foster care family while he/she awaits adoption. During this time, Baobei encourages orphanages to file adoption paperwork for the child.