Upper Highway Baby Home wins best charity award
The Summerveld residents have always been interested in supporting vulnerable children, especially babies.
APART from opening their hearts and home to abandoned babies, the Upper Highway Baby Home, which has been chosen as the Best Community Support/Charity in the Caxton Reader’s Choice Awards, also runs a feeding scheme in the Bux Farm and Cliffdale areas.
Gary and Kerry Stanton opened their home in 2019 to help abandoned children.
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The Summerveld residents have always been interested in supporting vulnerable children, especially babies.
The Stanton’s have three children of their own and currently house seven babies while searching for the right families to adopt the babies, some of whom were born prematurely.
Recently the couple, who are also passionate about assisting young mothers, announced that they will be accommodating up to 12 babies, on a boarding basis.
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The initiative, called Saving Futures programme, will provide young mothers, who are still in school, with the opportunity to complete their studies with the assurance that their child is being cared for.
This programme allows weekly boarding for newborns to two-year-old babies allowing the moms to concentrate on schoolwork during the week and on weekends the babies will be home with mom.
Kerry said they try and feed as many people as they can through their feeding scheme.
“Our feeding scheme is for children under the age of three and also for mothers who are still at school. We feed up to 500 depending on the donations we receive.
“We would like to feed more people and there is never enough to go around. We focus on our target sector first and if we have more food it gets distributed accordingly,” said a caring Kerry.
Residents who wish to support the home’s project can contact Kerry on 082 823 1844.
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