Hairy Crab Charities

Heart to Heart Shanghai provides support and financial assistance to needy Chinese children who require heart surgery to repair their congenital heart defects. Since it's founding in August 2003, Heart to Heart Shanghai has received donations from socially responsible individuals, groups and corporations which have been applied either to their Heart Surgery Sponsorship program and to provide assistance to the children and their families whom we support.

The average cost of a child's hole in the heart operation at the Shanghai Thoracic (Chest) Hospital is RMB 25,000. In comparison to the cost of similar operations in many overseas countries, this is a very modest cost. However, many families in China, particularly those living in rural communities are not fully covered by medical benefits and are unable to raise the amount of RMB 25,000 to pay for such a life-saving operation for their child. Heart to Heart has helped several hundred children receive life saving heart surgery. Learn more about Heart to Heart Shanghai's work at http://heart2heartshanghai.net.

See the kids whose surgeries have been sponsored by Hairy Crab Charities on our Heart 2 Heart Kids page.

Since its inception in 2000, thanks to the generous support of our players, sponsors and partners, Hairy Crab Charities has raised over RMB 2,800,000 for the Fudan University Children’s Hospital. These funds have been used in the purchase of medical equipment including a group ventilator, a central monitoring system, a transport incubator, computer systems, professional staff training and a fully equipped ambulance.

Fudan University Children's Hospital has made remarkable strides reducing their ICU infant mortality rate 5x while serving 5x the patients since 2000.

Though no one knows the exact numbers, there are many tens of thousands of girls and boys living in Chinese welfare institutions. They are newborns and toddlers, they are preschoolers, they are children with profound special needs, and they are older children. All will grow up with the legacy of having lost the love of their birth families. Half the Sky offers the love and concern of family for thousands of orphaned children in China who have lost theirs. Half the Sky was created in order to enrich the lives and enhance the prospects for orphaned children in China. They establish and operate infant nurture and preschool programs, provide personalized learning for older children and establish loving permanent family care and guidance for children with disabilities. Since their founding in 2000, Half the Sky's programs have reached thousands of China's orphans. It is Half the Sky's goal to ensure that every orphaned child has a caring adult in her life and a chance at a bright future. Learn more about Half the Sky's work at http://www.halfthesky.org .