Abba SpecialistAdoption & Social Services

Our main vision is to enable a 360-degree child protection service by strengthening, supporting and building families. This holistic perspective requires coordination of several child protection and specialized adoption related services that include:

• Statutory services in respect of children in need of permanent alternative care (ages birth-6)
• Finding adoptive families for children with special medical and emotional needs
• Counseling services towards birth families dealing with an unplanned pregnancy
• A specialized, national adoption program for unrelated and related adoptions
• Facilitating related and unrelated adoptions by foreign permanent residents
• A specialized inter-country program within the scope of existing working agreements approved by the South African Central Authority