Mercy Haven Baby Saver - Knysna

19/08/2025

Mothers urged to make use of safer and legal options

15/08/2025

🙏🏻Several babies have been found abandoned and deceased in the last few days in South Africa. If you’re a mama who is feeling desperate, please reach out to us!
🫶🏻We offer a free counseling service and we can assist you- anonymously if you prefer- with knowing ALL of the options for your baby.
🌍 If you’re in the Knysna/Plett/Sedge/George area- your closest baby saver is in Knysna at 6 Queen Street, tucked into a private corner of the blue Knysna Hope building. Choose safe relinquishment, and save a little life!

14/08/2025

10/08/2025

✔️We run quality assurance tests on the baby saver at least once per month to make sure all the mechanical and digital functions are in good working order. This weekend during our test, we used a water bottle to weigh down the pressure plate and trigger the silent alarm. The alarm goes to Allsound and to the phones of our response team.
💕We are ready to save a life 24/7.

12/07/2025

🎈 HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY to Mercy Haven! Three years ago today, Knysna’s baby saver officially opened. Thank you to everyone who has donated and helped to raise awareness about infant abandonment and the life saving solutions that are available to desperate moms! We will continue working to save little lives in Knysna and beyond. 🙏🏻

09/05/2025

🌟 Important interview about the current issues surrounding baby savers in South Africa!

As we kick off Child Protection month, we unpack a developing story unfolding on child abandonment. Every year, 3500 newborns are abandoned. We have read reports on how babies are abandoned in pit latrines, in bushes, rubbish dump, and storm drains. Baby Savers are a safe alternative to unsafe baby....

24/04/2025

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NATIONAL NEWS - A grim discovery shocked...

27/03/2025

🌷This week I was privileged to meet Nicola, who is part of the legal team representing Baby Savers South Africa and advocating for safe haven laws and baby saver legalities.
I enjoyed giving Nicola and her mother a tour of Mercy Haven. Grateful for the very important work that she is doing on our behalf!

17/03/2025

🤔How many people does it take to service a baby saver? 😅 We are grateful for Mick (who installed our baby saver) and his colleagues who, though baby saver technology is unfamiliar to them, take the time to figure out and solve any issues.
FYI- Mercy Haven is closed for a few days while we do some servicing and repair.

18/02/2025

🙏🏻 Please pray for this important step happening today for the future of baby savers and the infant abandonment crisis.
If you can’t catch it live, you can watch the replay.

10/01/2025

🙌🏻 This is a HUGE step in the right direction for South Africa! The baby saver community has waited years for the government to acknowledge and support our efforts to save babies. Please continue to pray and hope with us that safe haven laws are just around the corner!

25/09/2024

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We welcomed the 1900th child into the Door of Hope family, safely relinquished in our baby saver, a child obviously well cared for and very much loved.
Our prayers go out to the family and we pray that they find comfort and peace with this difficult choice that they had to make.
Deuteronomy 31:8-9 The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.