We care for 30 babies who have been abandoned or consented for adoption. Princess Alice Adoption Home is a temporary place of safety in Johannesburg for babies and toddlers (aged 0 to two years old). We provide around the clock residential care for the little ones, providing for all of their needs until they leave with adoptive families. We care for an average of 65 babies each year, and a successful adoption program ensures that they do not grow up in institutions but in nurturing families.
Babies are abandoned or consented for adoption for different reasons and complicated by widespread poverty. Whatever the reasons, once babies are in children's homes they need not only nutrition and medical care, but also individual attention, stimulation and emotional warmth to help them develop. Research shows that for each 3 months that a young child spends in institutional care, their development lags by 1 month. These developmental and emotional challenges can last a lifetime.
We care for 30 babies in a loving nursery. We provide for their nutritional, medical and physical needs to help them thrive. Our staff are supported by volunteers to ensure that the babies also receive consistent, individual attention to help them form trusting emotional bonds. This aids the future transition into their adoptive families. The individual focus on each child also helps with early intervention into possible developmental lags and increases the chances of an early adoption
Adopted babies and toddlers will have formed loving primary bonds from early in their lives and will have had appropriate stimulation to help them develop throughout their later years, both as individuals and as part of a family. They will also have accessed medical and health care services, and received good nutrition to create a solid foundation for healthy growth. On average, 65 babies will benefit each year. Our track record of 83 years proves the success of our program.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
