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Human Services to take legal custody of over 600 children

Apr 15, 2009 News

The Child Care Protection Agency of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security is currently pursuing the legal route of acquiring custody of over 600 children who do not have parents/guardians, and who were placed in the various institutions across the country.
Kaieteur News understands that the Ministry has acquired the services of a lawyer, who is in the process of having the courts grant the agency custody to take the children in its care and to place some of them in foster homes.
The Ministry will also have the right to put up some for adoption.
Recently, six children have been put up for adoption by the agency. These children were abandoned at the Red Cross Convalescent Home.
Notices have been placed for the parents to contact the agency urgently.
Kaieteur News was told that the Ministry is looking to place a number of children that are in institutional care into foster homes and the children that have been abandoned by their parents will be up for adoption.
Persons desirous of providing any of the children with a loving, caring and nurturing home where a child could realize his/her highest potential could contact the Child Care & Protection Agency, Ministry of Labour, Human Services & Social Security, Lot 1 Water & Cornhill Streets, Stabroek, Georgetown.
Their telephone numbers are 227-4420 and 227-4082.

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