{"id":228537,"date":"2026-03-26T02:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swakopmunds-ruach-elohim-foundation-rescues-49-babies-urges-national-safe-haven-awareness\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T02:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:03:22","slug":"namibia-swakopmunds-ruach-elohim-foundation-rescues-49-babies-urges-national-safe-haven-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swakopmunds-ruach-elohim-foundation-rescues-49-babies-urges-national-safe-haven-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Swakopmund&#8217;s Ruach Elohim Foundation Rescues 49 Babies, Urges National Safe Haven Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>A Swakopmund-Based organisation, Ruach Elohim Foundation, has safely received and rescued 49 babies since 2020, through the baby saver box raising concerns about a lack of national awareness on safe alternatives for mothers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This comes after a 36-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly leaving her newborn baby at a church at Omungwelume in the Ohangwena region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The topic has sparked debate on which places are lawfully considered safe havens for vulnerable mothers to surrender their babies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603250317.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Swakopmund-Based organisation, Ruach Elohim Foundation, has safely received and rescued 49 babies since 2020, through the baby saver box raising concerns about a lack of national awareness on safe alternatives for mothers. This comes after a 36-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly leaving her newborn baby at a church at Omungwelume in the Ohangwena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":228538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8837,16523,54009,5265,6804,4706,724,6687,257,7300,54008,6803,254,54007,6810],"class_list":["post-228537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awareness","tag-babies","tag-elohim","tag-foundation","tag-haven","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-rescues","tag-ruach","tag-safe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swakopmunds","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}