Tough love

Erna was very upset when she picked us up and had been crying. A few hours earlier she had taken a baby boy for a doctor's checkup. The tests found that he was healthy and negative for many common diseases here. At about 5 months of age, he was well nourished and sought out adult contact, with eyes and hands.

He lives, for the the past 10 days, at Nsambya Babies Home, where Probation had taken him in the middle of the night. The baby was “found on the street” in downtown Kampala after midnight by a pedestrian and turned over to police, who called in Probation.

So why was Erna crying? This baby had been well cared for and loved by someone, who was likely missing him very much. Erna had hoped to begin to foster him, but with the doctor's findings, now was having to place radio ads, in addition to the newspaper ad already running, to try to find this little guy's real mom. She couldn't imagine the mom voluntarily giving him away and hopes that some how, through God's grace, that baby and mom can be re-united.

While she and her husband have 2 kids of their own and have an adopted one as well, they have room in their hearts and lives for more. If no parents surface for this little guy, she is hoping he will join their family too. In the meantime, she has to pray that God opens a way for the real mom to hear the ads or read the paper and know that her son is safe and waiting for her to come.