Overseas Save the Chinese Children Foundation
(OSCCF) aims to help Chinese children aged from zero to sixteen
years old who are disabled, orphaned, or who have other diseases or
difficulties. Since OSCCF started, it has helped children with a
variety of diseases, such as congenital heart diseases, leukemia,
anal atresia, severe burn and scald, congenital biliary atresia,
cerebral paralysis, and et al. We currently have the following
programs to address the specific disease:
Burn
and scald kill more than 7,100 children ages 18 and under and injure
thousands of children each year in China. Nearly 50 percent of them
are under the age of 5. Majority of the injuries resulted from
in-home activities such as bathing or cooking. Most kids can fully
recover if treated in time. However, due to lack of financial
resources, most poor families have no choice but to give up
treatments. If patients miss the critical point of treatment, they
could face death at any moment.
OSCCF wants to
help families of these children to prevent and respond
to these injuries. Survivors of these injuries require post
acute care beyond initial treatment. Years of on-going treatments
are required to correct scarring from the injuries and to promote
full functioning of the patient. Psychological and therapeutic cares
are also needed. The families of survivors often experience trauma
and also have a unique set of needs. OSCCF supports and assists each
individual patient and the whole family by providing a spectrum of
treatments required to return the patient and family to healthy
productive lives.
Nowadays,
there are more than 6,000,000 people with cerebral paralysis in
China. 40,000 to 50,000 new patients increased every year. There are
1,780,000 children with cerebral paralysis from 1 to 12 years old in
China; the average incidence rate of this illness climbs high up to
3.25% in survived infants. 70% of poor kids with cerebral palsy live
in poor areas. Based on statistic data, cerebral paralysis takes the
third place of physical disabilities that needs the supports for
basic living, and the fifth place of reasons caused disabilities.
OSCCF unites professional hospitals together to initiate
"Assisting Action for Poor Kids with Cerebral Palsy" in order to
raise awareness of the living condition of those poor kids, to
partake their suffers and to help them to get timely medical
treatments. The purpose of this action is to help children with
cerebral paralysis live independently, enjoy education and
eventually return back to society.