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After reading an article about the thousands of baby girls languishing in Chinese orphanages, Bowen and her husband adopted a little girl from China and brought her home to Los Angeles, not out of a need to build a family but rather a commitment to save one child. A year later, as she watched her new daughter play in the grass with her friends, thriving in an environment where she knew she was loved, Bowen was overcome with a desire to help the children that she could not bring home. That very day she created Half the Sky Foundation, an organization conceived to bring love into the life of every orphan in China and one that has actually managed to fulfill its promise.In Wish You Happy Forever, a fish out of water tale like no other, Bowen relates her struggle to bring the concept of child nurture and responsive care to bemused Chinese bureaucrats and how shes actually succeeding.
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On a rainy day in 1997 when we met our little daughter, Maya, in Guangzhou, I began to learn what it means to a child to live a life without love. Just a year later, I looked out my window and saw our beloved toddler romping in the garden, so full of life and joy, looking for all the world like she'd always been adored. I suddenly understood just how resilient young children can be, and at that moment, I resolved to do whatever I could so that no more children should feel the hurt of being unwanted and alone. That was the day Half the Sky was born. And now, I wake up each morning knowing without doubt I can help make a child's life better today ... and I smile at my good fortune.
A former screenwriter and independent filmmaker, Jenny founded Half the Sky Foundation in 1998 in order to give something back to her adopted daughters' home country and to the many children then languishing behind institutional walls.
