Changde City Social Welfare Institute, founded in 1950, is a social institute of first class in Hunan province which provides the service of recovery training, medical treatment, old age support and orphans’ rescue, and mainly engages in the adoption of old people who have no income, no supporters or laboring ability, orphans and disabled children, and meanwhile provides the service of socialized old age support, medical treatment and recovery of disabled children. The institute is at No. 3588, Renmin Road West, covers an area of 45,000 square meters and the building area is 20,600 square meters. There are 500 beds in the institute now. The service and facilities of the institute are complete and the environment of institute is very good with many green trees and colorful flowers. Three leisure fitness squares and various courts in the institute are the paradise of old people and children. Old people’s apartment has bath room, cold and warm water, emergency call box system, digital TV and telephone. The medical staff give them regularly test, treatment and recovery guidance. Zhong Kang Cerebral Palsy Centre, established in 2008, can meet the disabled children’s need for their recovery and is also open to the society and provides the recovery treatment to the children with cerebral palsy of local area. And the institute has a special education school which calls “ Trust Myself ” supported by the organization “Love is color blind”. This school has been giving the preschool disabled children formative education.

The institute has adopted 1,500 old people who have no income, no supporters or laboring ability, 1,400 orphans and disabled children since founded. For making these orphans and disabled children return back home and integrate into the society as soon as possible, the institute has sent 1,188 children to be adopted by foreign parents and helped them find their own families. Many foreign adoptive parents took their adoptive children to visit the institute for seeking their roots each year.

The institute has been sticking to the idea of “ family, humanization, standardized service ” and the doctrine of “ love for ever, care the old age and young children, serve for society, devote sincerely ”, and received the full acceptance from all circles of society. The institute became the second one which got the International Quality Management System Certification IS09001: 2000 in Hunan province.