Saturday, June 13, 2009

Geraldine aka Appel Trapper

Darling Little Geraldine (2 and half years old)

Geraldine is a child that basically grew up in a Safe House in Diep River and Strand. She was found along the N2 freeway in Grabow when she was a year and a half old. From where she was placed into safe care and has never had contact with her parents, who made no attempt to find or get hold of her.

She somehow slipped through the cracks of the system and only recently has her case come alive again. She has now been removed from the safe house (as there was no-one who could foster her) and given back to her mother who works on a farm. The mother has one other child that lives with her, Geraldine (who is 3 in October) and a further 2 babies that don’t live with her, but are in foster care (go figure, how can our society not sterilise a person like this?)

Geraldine is such a special little character – she touched the hearts of everyone she met and hopefully she will be happy with her mom, but as that saying goes, if you love someone set them free, if they come back to you its for keeps – lets see what happens in her life, maybe there is someone here in our part of the world that can foster her after all, its all about timing . . .

God Bless you Little Geraldine, we love you! Jeanette, James and Chris

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