If this is something that God is laying on your heart and you can’t afford to help financially, will you organize for us in your Church or in your community to inspire others to do what they can to stop this inhuman act of murder? If you can do neither would you join us and so many others in petitioning our Heavenly Father to raise up others who can support us financially or organizationally?

Or can you do something practically like Ms Baker in Minnesota who is crocheting afghans for new borns to wear or like Amy from Wisconsin who is going to go with her Mom door to door to sign up sponsors in her community? There are as many ways to help as you can think of. Does your Senior group need a project?

What are your young girls doing in the community? How about saving the life of another girl. Or how about joining us in putting $100 into our scholarship fund for each girl that we save.

I am only one man that God asked to save the babies that were brought to him. Its 13 years later this month and 44,000 baby girls are alive who would be dead if God had not showed me what He wanted me to do. What does God want you to do? Pray about it and if He puts this work on your heart, join us.

THE PINK PAGODA by Jim Garrow is the compelling, compassionate story of one man’s determination to  save baby girls in China, one child at a time. Today, the number of girls he has saved from gendercide  brought about by China’s one-child mandate is over 40,000. Given that Dr. Garrow has been doing  this for eleven years and is himself only 60, one can only speculate as to how large that number could  become during his lifetime.  This is the story of how one man’s decision to say “Yes” to one child in danger led him to use his  entrepreneurial gifts and innate skills for mobilizing others to create the baby-saving organization which  is called Pink Pagoda. All of this has come at great personal cost to him, along with the reality that  his life and those of his family hang on the edge of danger. Pink Pagoda is his promise to God out of  gratitude for his own son’s life being saved at birth. That is a promise he will honor for the rest of his  life.  Not that Dr. Garrow is a mild-mannered milquetoast loved by all and gentle in his demeanor. More  accurately, he is a “rogue with integrity” who works hand in hand with the most secret of Chinese  intelligence forces, and who is by United Nations description a “criminal engaged in human trafficking”.  Ironically, he was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 and the Order of Canada in 2010.  Apparently, God’s guanxi trumps the U.N.  The term guanxi is central to how Dr. Garrow accomplishes what he does. The concept of carefully  nurtured relationships and connections dates back to medieval China, and is what drives life in China, at  all levels – from the simple peasant to the President of China. Garrow is a master of guanxi, and one of  the most highly respected people in China.  His story combines his impish humor with the horrors of what he has encountered in China, more  adventure than apologia. He is at the core an ordinary man doing extraordinary work under the  guidance of God.

Pink Pagoda is dedicated to changing the outcome of a very hard decision that some parents are driven to in the Peoples Republic of China. The national policy of one child per couple plus the traditional place of the first born male as the provider for parents in their old age leaves many couples with a dilemna of what to do if their child is a girl. Some make the tragic decision to end her life and try for a boy. Here at the decision stage is where our program steps in. Through a word of mouth information campaign we have shown over 27,000 families that allowing their child to live and be adopted by a foreigner is a much preferred option to infanticide. They have agreed with us.

Help us to do this most difficult work in changing the outcome for the thousands of young girls who would otherwise loose their lives. Your donation saves lives. We say a very grateful thank you to those who assist us in this endeavour.
Dr. Jim Garrow, PhD
Executive Director
The Bethune Institute/
Pink Pagoda

One of the harsh realities of the national policy of one child per family in the Peoples Republic of China is the diminishing value of females. I have struggled with how we might help save some of the females that are cast aside in some of the poorer districts of China and on my last sojourn in Chongqing I met with a number of adoption agencies and was advised of ways that we might help.

1. An information program to let the Chinese folks know that their children are loved and needed by folks from all over the world who would love to adopt them.
2. A program to provide transportation for the folks and their babies into central locations for the adoption agencies to meet and explain the process to them.
3. A program to help share the cost to couples wishing to adopt who would not normally qualify for the right to adopt.
4. Facebook users that will spread the message to their various networks and encourage their friends to join Pink Pagoda
5. State and Provincial coordinators who will take charge of the dissemination of information and the encouragement of those of who wish to give in support of our efforts.

Each of these initiatives require funds to back the efforts. Should you choose the opportunity to donate to Pink Pagoda, send a gift, make the cheque/check payable to The Bethune Institute, and on the particulars line write, Pink Pagoda,

If you are interested in this aspect of our efforts at the Bethune Institute please call us toll free in North America at 1-888-577-0773.
Thank you for your caring.
JG
Skype: drjgarrow

“We view each child as a gift from God, full of promise and potential, needing only the opportunity to add something special to humanity. There are no throw aways!”