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| In 1985 Jane made her first trip to China which left her with a love and burden for the people. She returned annually travelling to different places throughout all of China. Through her contact with a successful publisher who had come from poverty in the Chinese countryside and seeing some photos of the poverty among the children she began to search out ways to help. First she sent money to Project Hope to help provide education for poor children in China, then she met with one of their leaders and visited the countryside herself. While there she met some of the children she had been supporting. |
| She began to awaken at night with ideas of how to help. She felt surely she could rent a house and hire some retired women to act as mothers. She knew she needed to do more research and yet the only way to remain long enough in China was to teach so as to have a resident permit. So in 1994 she accepted a teaching position in Zhengzhou during which time she made her second trip deep into the mountains of one of China's poorest places. She returned home that summer with the intention of spending the year accumulating some support. With the donation of $10,000 and the meeting of the leader of XinMi who wanted to help their poor children she began to collaberate with the Chinese government on providing homes for China's countryside orphan children. |
