Our home
A house that is always ready for one more.
Where Adina began
It began with one baby, and a yes.
We, the du Plessis’s, felt our core move almost 10 years ago when we decided to love a baby in need for however long we were required to. We never knew that baby M would set the power of God in motion in our lives and the lives of many children.
Michelle (baby M) eventually became a du Plessis, and we were blessed to be in a position to save almost 110 babies over 7 years. Our structure changed, but our calling is established and we are continuing our journey.
Adina Baby Home was birthed because we saw the ongoing need in our community to be a safety net for babies from hard places — to continue providing temporary safe care for vulnerable, abandoned and orphaned babies.
The du Plessis family
Adina is a registered non-profit safe house for babies and small children. They come to us through the children’s court — newborns left at hospitals, small children removed from harm, little ones whose families are in crisis — and they stay with us while social workers find the place they belong: family, foster care, or adoption.
The wait can be weeks or months. Our whole work is to make sure that wait happens inside a home, not an institution — cots with their own blankets, bottles at three in the morning, someone who learns exactly how each child likes to be held.
The name Adina means delicate, gentle. The tagline is Psalm 139’s answer to every file number and case sheet: fearfully and wonderfully made.
A cot made up and waiting is the whole job. Someone always arrives.
A child’s time with us
01
Arrival
A placement by children's court order, often at short notice, sometimes in the middle of the night. A warm bath, a bottle, a cot with their name on it within the hour.
02
The stay
Routine, warmth and medical care while the social workers do their work. Clinic visits, immunisations, milestones watched and written down — and a lot of being held.
03
The goodbye
Reunification with family where it is safe, foster care, or adoption. Every goodbye breaks our hearts, but we know it is the first day of their new forever — and God restores our capacity to be ready for another.
Registered & accountable
The paperwork behind the warmth.
- Registered non-profit
- 325-150 NPO
- Banking
- FNB Cheque · Adina NPO · 63180894339 · 210835
- Where we are
- Delmas, Mpumalanga
Why there are no faces here
Every child at Adina is the subject of children’s court proceedings, and the Children’s Act — as well as their own dignity — forbids us from publishing anything that could identify them. So this site shows hands, cots, blankets and light instead of faces.
We would rather show you less and protect them completely. When you give, you will know exactly what your money did — you just will not see who it did it for. That is the deal, and we think it is the right one.
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