So far we’ve got three agencies saying the cut-off was the 20th and two agencies saying the cut-off was the 22nd.
I’m not changing the box until this clears up a bit more.
Half the Sky has a new earthquake update. I can’t even begin to summarize it, you’ll just have to go read it for yourself: [...]

Monday morning, May 19th: HTS reports that Mianyang has become a major refugee center. There are more than 20,000 refugees in the city’s stadium. They are told (but have not confirmed) that the entire center area of the stadium is reserved for toddlers and infants. HTS has someone headed there now so they should know [...]

As I reported yesterday, HTS (Half the Sky) reports that they have had contact with the Chengdu, Chongqing and Yibin orphanages and that all is well. The children were all evacuated until the tremors passed, the buildings suffered no great damage, and no children were injured. This morning they note that the children have once [...]

Half the Sky has provided me with another update. Too bad we can’t have a drumroll here, this feels like it needs one:
People have now sent in $12,354.38 on behalf of ChinaAdoptTalk.com.
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Half the Sky has updated their storm page:
http://www.halfthesky.org/work/littlemouse.php
In some cases, the news is worse, not better.
When people receive their referral, often the first thing they can “do” is go search down their child’s orphanage and get an idea of the kind of care the babies typically get from their child’s orphanage. They may find out [...]

Some agencies began receiving referrals yesterday.

An agency received referrals for their 12/20 families but not their 12/28 families
An agency received referrals for their 12/26 families

This tells me that the 28th is not likely included, and the 26th is. I’ll take it to an R5 that the cut off is the 26th or 27th.
I haven’t [...]