State Care of Infants
As of early 2005, the Romanian law states that no child under the age of two can be in a state institution. However, children continue to be abandoned daily. The state solution has been to place some children in foster care or maternal assistance. The children not placed in some type of foster care are kept indefinitely at the pediatric hospitals around the country.
Serving Babies
in pediatric hospitals
Started:
2007
Location:
Mureș County (Ludus, Tarnaveni)
# Babies Reached:
~280
What is Cradle Care?
In response to continued needs of babies entering these pediatric wards, we are working to serve one such hospital. Our Livada staff and volunteers work to assist the hospital staff in the care of these abandoned babies. Our Cradle Care program works in a variety of ways to better the lives of these innocent infants. We offer everything from diapers to the developmental training and therapeutic needs of these children. Offering a tender embrace is only the beginning. We work daily with these babies in hopes of preparing them for a forever home through our Foster to Adopt program.
Meeting the Needs of Babies
Anything from a tender embrace to diapers to developmental training
We now have staff working full time to prepare these babies for a new family, complete the necessary paperwork, and find the families ready to adopt these children and love them as their own.
Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.
–Kate Douglas Wiggin
We Can't Do This
Without You
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