Safe care and adoption for Indian Babies

Thank you for support of our adoption center and children.

As a government-approved adoption center we manage to place our babies with Indian families reasonably quickly. For our older children and those with special needs it can prove more difficult and we have recently introduced international adoptions for those that we have been unable to place with Indian parents.

Yesterday two of our older children met their new parents and today they are off to start their new life in Italy. When five-year old Suraj and six-year old Saana's mother died from a HIV-related illness their father who is also HIV+ felt unable to provide for them and left them in our care to be adopted. Despite their background, the youngsters are very lively and Suraj is a real joker and both have become popular with our center staff and we will miss them so much. We are however really happy to have met their new parents and know that they have a bright and happy future ahead of them. 

Our babies come from many backgrounds and all have their own heart-breaking stories behind them. One of the reasons for establishing our center was also to cater to our own beneficiaries. Our shelter home for children includes children living with HIV, the children of sex workers and orphans and semi-orphans. It also includes victims of sexual abuse. 

Kaama comes from a very poor family. When her father left their village to find work, her mother started an affair with a younger man. He started spending a lot of time around the family home and one day when her mother was out, he took advantage of the situation and raped Kaama. When she told her mother what had happened, she refused to believe her. With no protection from her parent, the man continued to rape Kaama until eventually she fell pregnant at the age of 13.

Kaama’s mother who was now very ill with HIV was too sick to help her. Fortunately, someone told her about Snehalaya. We welcomed her to our campus and helped her through her pregnancy.

Kaama was extremely traumatised from her ordeal and scared about the future for herself and her unborn child. She received a lot of counselling and when her son was born, Kaama gave her consent for him to be taken into the care of our adoption centre. We soon found him an adoptive family able to give him the safe and secure future Kaama was too young and incapable of providing for herself.

Kaama’s mother has since died of an AIDS-related illness and thanks to our legal aid, her rapist has been jailed. She has recently gone back to school and is trying to put it all behind her.

It's thanks to you that girls like Kaama are able to offer their babies a brighter future and they can receive the support to resume their own childhoods!

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