Abandonment is a very distinct affliction that strikes
children when poverty and disease prevail.

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Abandoned children are the most helpless and most frequent victims of violence, disease, malnutrition and death. Without the support from their families, these children are exposed to the frightening dangers of abduction and sexual exploitation.

Lubuto

Recently a little boy was brought to one of our orphanages in Zambia. He was estimated to be between two and three years old, but because he was so malnourished it was hard to know his exact age.

The police found him wandering around the crowded bus station in the city center. They thought he had been abandoned the day before and had spent the entire night alone hiding in the waiting area where buses load and unload passengers.

He could not speak, so he was given the name Lubuto (which means “light”). For the first few days he just clung to anyone who would hold him.

His sadness and fear is disappearing and every day he looks more and more like a healthy little boy. He may never be reunited with his relatives, but he is loved and cared for in the “family” of the orphanage he was delivered to, and may be welcomed into an adoptive family all his own some day.

Shockingly, there are over
20 million homeless or abandoned children in the world today - a majority of them are orphans.

Many of these orphans have been traumatized by witnessing the ruthless murder of their parents or by helplessly watching them die of AIDS or starvation. Alone, with no one to raise them, abandoned children must resort to eating any scraps available and wandering the streets.

Emotionally and physically scarred, the future for these orphans is a bleak reminder of lost hope.

Abandoned Children's Fund has not forgotten these helpless children and orphans.
We devote our time and effort to building schools, medical clinics, feeding programs and children's homes that have become sanctuaries of love, laughter and hope rather than despair.
 
 

Abandonment

The social stigma associated with abandoning ones child (in any culture) causes parents to decide in secret to abandon their children and with deep shame added to the devastating heartache.

Quietly plans are made to bring a child from a remote village to the city, on the pretext of visiting the marketplace or a distant relative. The child is brought to a busy street corner and told to wait a moment for momma to return with a drink of water. Momma never returns.

Abandoned children are sometimes carried deep into the forest or far out into the desert or a swamp and left to the wild to avoid the shameful mark of child abandonment.

When abandoned in populated areas sometimes there are orphanages or strangers homes to which the child is delivered. Sometimes there is none.


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