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Safe haven for unwanted babies welcomes first infant
July 01, 2010 (Thursday)
PAPA
OrphanCARE, the country’s first baby hatch set up on May 29, received its first baby – a new-born boy who was brought in by his parents.
The one-day-old baby was born to a young, unmarried couple in their early 20s yesterday.
“The couple, who concealed the pregnancy from their families, were at a loss whether to keep the baby but decided that he would be better off with OrphanCare.
“However, they will come to a decision soon whether the baby should be put up for adoption,” OrphanCare president Datuk Adnan Tahir said in a statement yesterday.
He said the centre had over 300 potential adoptive parents and he was confident of finding good parents for the baby should his biological parents decide not to keep him.
He appealed to other couples facing a similar predicament to approach the centre for counselling and assistance. OrphanCARE is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation whose objective is to give orphans and abandoned babies in Malaysia the love, care and security of a family in line with its tagline “Every Child Needs a Family”.
Located at 6, SS1/24A, Kampung Tunku here, the hatch is run by OrphanCARE, a partner of the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry.
Adnan had said women who dropped off their babies were encouraged to sign a consent form and leave their identification card numbers, which would be kept confidential.
The forms are placed outside the centre next to the hatch, he said.
“The mothers’ details are important for the future of the babies,” he added. Source
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 CHENCHEN21 | 21/07/2010 - 02:01 PM
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