Concerns for children if Guardians of Hope forced to scale down operations

Social development says enough similar centres exist in BCM and it prefers family placement over institutionalisation

While the department of social development is adamant that East London NGO Guardians of Hope must massively scale down its operations, other care facilities in the metro say there is no capacity to take on the 17 to 23 sick and orphaned babies who could be left homeless as a result, and they say the department has no concrete plans to save them...

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