Mothers' Bridge Of Love

The Mothers’ Bridge of Love is a charity to set up a bridge between China and the world; primarily for those western families, who have adopted children from China, who want to learn more about the culture their children come from and share experiences with other families who’ve adopted children from China. It was founded by Xinran who is a mother, of Panpan, an author, of books including ‘The Good Women of China’ ‘Sky Burial’ and ‘Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother’ (which focuses on stories of Chinese mothers who have lost their daughters, and includes details of how to donate to MBL). She is also a columnist of The Guardian newspaper (G2); and freelance adviser of TV & Publishing House. Her aim for this project was to build a “mothers’ bridge of love” to show Chinese orphans how much a mother’s love means to them, no matter where the love comes from, be it birth or adoptive mother, from China or rest of the world. She spent eight months researching the possibility and looking for partners for the project and as of 19 August 2004, The Mothers’ bridge Bridge of Love has been entered into the Central Register of the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the United Kingdom.