Hope for the Hopeless

February 13, 2010

Patricia was eighteen years old.  The township she was living in was strange and far from home, family, and friends.  Neither she or her boyfriend were working, there was no money, and no knowing where the next meal would come from.  But her own loneliness, fear, and discomfort were nothing compared to the concern she [...]

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The face of hope.

November 5, 2009

Fundisawa is 7 months pregnant and HIV +. She hadn’t eaten a meal in a few days and hardly even looked pregnant. She has three children already, they are all in orphanages. She admits with tears streaming that her children were taken from her because she used to drink a lot. She was hopelessly depressed. [...]

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Fortunate

September 30, 2009

She was 9 mo. pregnant and destitute, and ironically her name was Fortunate. A cafe owner’s employees had befriended a fellow Zimbabwean who had been sleeping at the Cape Town train station. All of them where concerned about the fate of Fortunate but more so the fate of the child within here. Would she dump [...]

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babies saved!

September 11, 2009

babies saved. Posted: 29 Jul 2009 05:28 AM PDT 8 babies who were abused, abandoned or neglected have been placed in loving and safe homes so far. Countless new baby packs  have been given away, including ongoing packs to the moms who come to hospital with absolutely nothing. Thanks to Baby Safe they now go [...]

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A safe is born.

January 18, 2009

Baby Safe has been servicing pregnant women, mother’s considering adoption, and abused and abandoned children since July 2008. But the actual safe was installed in October and was opened in mid November, and has been operating successfully! We are celebrating the birth of  hope for the at risk babies in our area, as well as [...]

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Building the box

June 18, 2008

We have started building the first prototype now with the guys at 1scale1 (1scale1.com). For this prototype we plan to have a basic box with some electronics installed to be able to test out sending an SMS. We are using the Arduino board and a standard GPRS module which allows us to communicate using a [...]

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