A total of 200 sick and disabled orphans at the Shenzhen Welfare Center have benefited from projects funded by Half The Sky foundation, a U.S. charity foundation devoted to helping orphans in China.

Through "the nanny project," 30 local women aged between 45 and 55 have been recruited to take care of disabled babies under 2 years old, with each woman being in close touch with three babies for three to five hours every day, said Fu Tianyue, director of the Shenzhen Welfare Center, at yesterday's national work conference for disabled orphans' recovery resource development.

Twenty teachers have been selected and trained through the "little sisters preschool program," to provide preschool education for 60 children.

The "big sisters program" provides skills to 15 disabled orphans aged between 14 and 18, who are too old for adoption.

The "imitation family program" provides 30 orphans of medium-level disability aged between 7 and 14 the family lives that they have been missing. Each family comprises of a "father" and "mother" and five children. The children involved are "healthier and happier," according to the welfare center.

Editor: Yan