Protecting vulnerable babies. Supporting young mothers. Changing futures.
Upper Highway Baby Home provides a safe, loving family environment for abandoned, orphaned and vulnerable babies while they await placement with their forever families.
Through our Saving Futures programme, we also support more than 500 school-going mothers and their babies, helping young mothers remain in education while ensuring their babies receive the nutrition, care and developmental support they need.
Why our work matters
Baby abandonment remains a serious and largely under-recorded problem in South Africa.
What we do
Since 2019, Upper Highway Baby Home has cared for babies in need of protection, providing them with more than simply a place to stay.
Our babies become part of a family environment where they experience love, stability and security while they wait for their forever families.
We provide:
- 24/7 care for babies from newborn to three years old
- Health and developmental monitoring
- Emotional and nurturing care
- Support throughout the journey towards permanent family placement
- A loving family environment during a vulnerable period in each baby’s life
Saving Futures
Our work doesn’t stop at the Baby Home.
Through Saving Futures, we currently support more than 500 school-going mothers and their babies.
The programme exists to help young mothers stay in school, complete their education and build a more secure future for themselves and their children.
We provide practical monthly support to mothers and babies, including nutritional assistance, baby essentials, guidance and developmental monitoring.
By supporting a mother to remain in school while helping ensure her baby is properly cared for and reaching key milestones, we are investing in two generations at once.
Supporting a mother. Protecting a baby. Breaking the cycle of poverty.
It takes a village
Upper Highway Baby Home is supported by a small, dedicated team, volunteers, donors and community partners who make this work possible.
Every tin of formula, packet of nappies, meal, donation and hour volunteered contributes towards giving a vulnerable child or young mother a better chance at the future.
You can be part of that village.