Saturday, November 12, 2016

Baby Among the Reeds


Long article in the Sunday Times needed to be read through in order to decipher the caption for the main picture accompanying:
“OrphanCare arranges adoption of babies left in baby hatches”
Scarved woman hovering over a new-born lying within a kind of out-sized microwave capsule built into a pillar or corner of a building on a street pavement it looked…. Keypad adjacent, temperature controlled presumably; piping of nutrients not visible.
The penultimate paragraph: “An average of 100 babies are dumped every year in Malaysia and more than 50% do not survive.”
And the last paragraph: “OrphanCare runs baby hatches in Petaling Jaya, Johor Bahru and Sungai Petani…”
….Facility adopted from where?... They didn’t dream this up here that was for sure.
Google search showed 1. china 2. baby hatches a safer and better future 3. germany 4. usa

The contemporary church steps, basket among the reeds by the river-bank, what-have-you.

                                                                    S. T., p.14 November 13 2016 Johor Bahru




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