Where is Isla? Yangxi SWI.

Isla is in the western Guangdong province in an orphanage in the city of Yangxi. Since receiving our call from the agency on Friday we have gotten many posts and emails from others who adopted from the same Social Welfare Institute (SWI). The information we have been directed to on the web has been tremendous. Knowing where your daughter is and that she is well cared for is great peace of mind... especially when you can hardly stop thinking about her enough to get some sleep.

The Research-China website is a particularly good site for information about the SWI. It even explains why Isla (Zi Shao) was given the last name of Yang Xi while her friends have the last name of Song.

To find Yangxi on a map of China you first need to locate Guangzhou, capital of the Guangdong province and one of the three major cities on the Pearl River Delta (the other two are Hong Kong and Macau).Once you have found Guangzhou you have found the Guangdong province. If you follow the coastline west you first see Macau at the edge of the delta and will eventually run into Yangjiang which is very near Yangxi.
Yangxi is only a short distance west of Yangjiang.