BABY Hope House in Pinetown launched its new Adopt A Cot initiative and hosted a braai for its volunteers and adoptive families on Saturday, 21 November.
The place of safety for vulnerable children started the drive in the hope of boosting its financial resources in order to meet its mandate of recognising and providing for each child’s specific needs. “Adopt A Cot is a charity drive for the Baby Hope House, which is aimed at getting additional funding to cover costs needed to run the household. We are looking for sponsorship from individuals as well as companies to adopt a cot,” said chairperson of the baby house, Vernon Scott.
He said cot adopters will then have their names placed on the specific cot they had adopted which they would be allowed access to upon visits. “When signing up to Adopt A Cot, your company will be sponsoring one of Baby Hope House’s cots and your funding will go towards the care of the child who is allocated this cot. Should you or your employees wish to interact with the children, arrangements can be made to do so by contacting the home for a suitable date and time,” Scott added.
Interested parties are to required to contact the baby house, complete two sets of forms reflecting the period commitment and submit them. Adopters can choose between a partial sponsorship of R1 000 per month, where each cot will be allocated three shared sponsors, or full sponsorship at R3 000 per month, where a company will be the sole sponsor of a cot.
In a separate fundraising drive, the home is in need of your ideas and suggestions. “Guiness World Records has offered to give us coverage if we break a record. So far, we have been trying to find a record to beat or break and we’ve come up with nothing. We are appealing for suggestions,” he said.
Baby Hope House works under the affirmation that children are to be loved, celebrated and placed with forever families. The house is a place of rekindled hope for all the children, parents and volunteers. For more information, visit www.babyhopehouse.org, contact Lynne or Sonia on sonlyn7@gmail.com or call 031 708 1547.
