Giving Life A Chance: TTF Promise Homes Provide Safety for Abandoned Babies in South Africa
Hello August 22nd, 2024
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JOHANNESBURG, April 2025—In Johannesburg alone, an estimated three to four babies are left every single day—in dumpsters, on the side of the road, in sewers, and even in toilets. The country’s baby abandonment crisis is a complex issue that stems from poverty, lack of resources and education, and desperation. Many families living in South Africa struggle to provide for basic needs like food and shelter. In some cases, mothers desperately feel they have no choice but to abandon their precious babies.
After learning about these statistics and about the heartbreaking situations these families find themselves in, we wanted to do everything we could to rescue these precious babies, empower families, and fight baby abandonment.
TTF has come alongside our Ministry Partner, Impact Africa, to operate four TTF Promise Homes in and around Johannesburg, South Africa. These homes provide babies with safety, top-level care, nutrition, health care, wellness, and the opportunity for a forever family. The loving TTF Impact Baby Rescue Team provides around-the-clock care to these precious image-bearers as they work to reunify them with their family or get them ready for adoption.
A baby safe provides a life-saving alternative for mothers choosing to surrender their babies when they feel like they don’t have any other options. If a parent is unable to care for or raise their baby, we want to provide a way for them to choose life for their child, and a baby safe gives them that option. When a baby is rescued, the team immediately works with the local government to ensure all safety and legal procedures are followed, and the babies receive the best care possible. For many babies, this could mean life, growing up, getting an education, and living out God’s purpose for their lives.
“Thanks to the Tim Tebow Foundation, we are empowered to be in front of women every day with the literal life-saving message of the gospel and life alternatives for newborn babies facing harm. With the help and partnership of the Tim Tebow Foundation, we are witnessing babies go from death to life as they are adopted into forever families,” Rich said.
We are so grateful to work alongside Impact Africa to bring Faith, Hope and Love to vulnerable babies and families in South Africa in their darkest hour of need. Thank you to our TTF giving family for stepping into a mission that is changing lives and helping give life a chance!
If you have a heart for serving the world's Most Vulnerable People, we invite you to take action and join The Movement, a passionate community bringing Faith, Hope and Love to those in desperate need around the globe.
