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Child Rescue Centre EMOTIONAL ABUSE IS STILL CHILD ABUSE! YOUR WORDS MATTER Rustenburg hotline: 071 352 9788 info@childrc.co.za | www.childrc.co.za 8
Door of Hope Children’s Mission founder, Pastor Cheryl Allen, installed the first ‘modern day’ Baby Box (saver) at their premises in Berea, Johannesburg in July 1999. Later that year a lady from Germany came to visit to view the operational Baby Box and subsequently installed one in [town? City? Country?] in April 2000. After Germany began installing Baby Boxes (savers), they had visitors from Japan and Switzerland who took the concept back to their countries. Poland went to visit Switzerland in 2006, which resulted in them proceeding with the installation of 60 Baby Savers in honour of Pope John Paul II, a known great ‘life defender’ (the Catholic Church had provided places for mothers to leave their babies anonymously if they could not look after them in the 1400 / 1500s). Some years later a Pastor in South Korea had a few instances of babies abandoned in front of his home. This prompted him to do some research into child abandonment in developing countries and resulted in him installing a Baby Saver in 2009. By 2011 Russia and Latvia had also come on board. In 2013 Monica Kelsey (an abandoned infant herself) visited South Africa from the USA, where she saw the Baby Saver at the King of Kings Church in Sun Valley, Cape Town. She went on to launch the Safe Haven Baby Boxes organisation in America (where many states have a Safe Haven Law in place, but unsafe abandonment continues to be an issue). The next baby saver in South Africa was opened in 2008 by New BeginningZ in Pretoria and in 2013 a third Baby Saver was opened in Wellington in the Cape, followed by the Helderberg Baby Saver in Somerset West in 2014. There are now 35 operational Baby Savers in South Africa. Nadene Grabham, Director of Door of Hope was proud to represent South Africa at the 14th annual Asia Health and Baby Box Symposium in Kumamoto Japan in early 2018, along with 10 other countries. Here it emerged that 9
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