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Every year thousands of newborn babies are being found wrapped in plastic bags, buckets, roadsides, fields, drains, rivers, canals, medical waste bins.
Tevah Moshe, in association with Baby Savers SA, raise awareness of community level support services for pregnancy help and crisis pregnancy support, while providing a baby saver facility to the mother in crisis for the safe relinquishment of their baby.
If you are a mom that is considering safe abandonment, click here.
Currently Baby Savers SA is lobbying to have a law passed in South Africa, as exists in America; the Safe Haven Law, whereby a mother can legally give away her baby to a hospital, emergency medical facility or health care facility.
Baby savers are safe and anonymous units which receive abandoned babies. Once a baby is placed in the unit, the unit locks and a silent alarm goes off notifying the ambulance, security team and the responder on call. The baby is received within minutes and taken to hospital, checked and stabilised. Local Child Protection Organisation WANDISA and the Department of Social Development places the baby in temporary safe care, to prepare for adoption or reintegration. All necessary protocol is followed with the filing of an official incident report and a notice in the paper, in an attempt to engage the mother. If no parent comes forward at this time, the baby becomes adoptable.
Tevah Moshe’s vision is to see the end of baby abandonment in South Africa.
The purpose of the organisation is to raise awareness of the crisis that exists, to point mothers in crisis to the Pregnancy Help Centres for hope, support and advice, and to provide a safe baby relinquishment option for mothers with no other option.
Baby safes are safe and anonymous anchored units which receive abandoned babies. Baby is placed in the unit and a silent alarm goes off notifying the ambulance, security team and the responder on call. The baby is received within minutes and taken to hospital, checked and stabilised. Local Child Protection Organisation WANDISA and the Department of Social Development places the baby in temporary safe care, to adoption or reintegration. All necessary protocol is followed with the filing of an official incident report and a notice in the paper, in an attempt to engage the mother. If no parent comes forward at this time, the baby becomes adoptable.
