In the blog of two weeks ago, I wrote about baby Paul, who was abandoned by his mother. And how one of the local leaders, the situation used to get richer himself. We had been hanging posters around the area and one of the uncles recognised the baby on the picture.
We invited the uncle, grandmother and the mother to Amecet. The grandmother had not seen her grandson before, and we let the mother choose her son out of 4 babies...
Paul was laying between his little friends and the mother was asked to pick her son. She came in the room and went straight to pick her son..
We asked her to take the baby outside to show him to his grandmother and that was really touchy, she was so happy to see her grandson!!!
After the visit in Amecet our social worker Pius , together with Andrew, took the grandmother, the mother and the uncle to the police. This was a police case, and we had to work via them. They took the mother in their cells for 3 days, then she was released. It was to let her feel that this was a very serious situation. She can't just throw her baby in the bushes. She was released yesterday, and today we went to bring Paul back to his family!!!
First we went via the police, there was the official handover of the baby, back to the family. After that we all went to the home of the family. many people had gathered, family and neighbours, all waiting for the Paul!! Simon did our hand-over to the family with signing our papers.
Everybody was very happy, Paul went from hand to hand... The mother got also a chance to hold her son. And it almost looked if she asked forgiveness from him..
We are also very happy, Paul is back home, he will be loved, and he is where he belongs!!!
This is what we wish for every child!!
The grandmother gave us 2 chickens, we don't ask any donation from the families, they don't pay us for anything, but the grandmother insisted that we would take those as a gift.... so he accepted them, because Wednesday is still our chicken day!!
About the corruption and the money that the official took from the grandmother, it is all in the open and the grandmother should open a case against the local leader.
I hope she will!!!
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