If you are a college student, you can contact your school classmates or volunteer organizations to organize regular activities in the name of the school to volunteer. It is also okay if you just go by yourself, but it will usually arouse the other party's vigilance. If you don’t have a volunteer certificate, the other party will doubt your motives. Orphanages are generally not located in urban areas. There are two types of nursing homes. One is a small community-based one, which is generally private. The other is a public one, which is generally not open to the public and is a nursing home for senior government cadres.

I have no choice but to say that in Harbin, the conditions in this regard are really lacking. However, it seems that a registered volunteer charity organization (public institution) was established in 2008. You can ask 114 whether this organization is still there!