ICYMI: Jenine Kammies was a newborn baby when she was left at Bonteheuwel train station 44 years ago.
OVER the past two years nearly 100 babies have been abandoned in the province. Jenine Kammies knows the pain of being abandoned as a baby. She was abandoned in 1977 and is now on a search to find her birth parents.For the first time in four decades, Kammies took her search to social media for her birth mother after both her adoptive parents died.
The Weekend Argus spoke to Kammies about her quest after she approached the organisation TracknTrace Public Group.She is mother to three children and two grandchildren and works at an old-age home. Kammies said there were very few details about her abandonment but she managed to get one lead: security guard who had worked at the train station during the 1970s.
He added that between April 2019 and March this year 46 children were abandoned, while between April last year and March this year 26 children were abandoned in the Western Cape. “It’s important to note that not all of these abandonments are necessarily babies abandoned by mothers, for example, left on a field or in bins etc. These figures also include children abandoned by alternate caregivers, such as grandparents and foster parents.
Lucinda Evans, who runs the Lavender Hill Baby Saver at her home in Hilary Drive, has helped four babies who were abandoned.
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