By Joyce Connolly | Honorary Director
We have been successfully rescuing and adopting children since 2004 and some of our earliest adoptees are now reaching adulthood. While it's heartbreaking to see some of the conditions the babies arriving at our home are in and we often have to steel ourselves to open the door, we were thrilled when Maya turned up on our doorstep.
Maya was one of the first babies we rescued. Her parents were in advanced stages of AIDS, very sick and unable to care for their four year old daughter they came to us for help. Not only did we take in Maya we also wanted to help her parents. The family lived with us allowing her father to die with dignity and when her mother realised that she too was dying she wanted to complete the formalities to ensure Maya's future with an adoptive family. Within days of completing the paperwork Maya's mother also died.
Maya stayed with us for two years while we searched for the right adoptive parents for her, becoming a daughter to our care staff. When a couple from Pune came to our center with their hearts set on adopting a baby, we suggested they speak with six year old Maya. They were won over and started to process of adopting the little girl immediately.
We were so happy to see how the small girl who had lost both her birth parents by the age of five has enjoyed a second chance with a new family. She is currently studying at a reputed collegewhere she is doing really well and we were so happy to see her again.
She told us: "Thank you so much for looking after me and my dying parents, without you I don't know where I would have ended up. It's thanks to you that I have had such a happy life with a loving family. I've never forgotten my Snehalaya family and really wanted to come back to say thank you and show you how well I'm doing."
There are many more Maya's out there, your help is ensuring that babies and small children like her orphaned or abandoned under the most extreme circumstances are given love and care until we are able to place them with loving and secure families. Thank you!
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