Kids & Family

Mineola Non-Profit Employing Yellow Cabs as 'Safe Haven' for Babies

Over 600 cabs now trained to take unwanted children to suitable locations for adoption.

Mineola-based Ambulance Medical Technician (AMT) Children of Hope Foundation is employing dozens of yellow cabs and livery vehicles this year as safe havens for unwanted babies in danger of being abandoned.

According to the Long Island Report, Baby Safe Haven is a program that allows birth mothers to relinquish their newborns with no questions asked to a safe location. The program was established in 1998 when Jaccard, a medical officer for Nassau County, went on numerous emergency calls involving babies who were abandoned by their mothers and left to die.

Over 600 cabs have been trained to take infants to a suitable location such as a hospital, police or fire station and save them from abandonment by adoption, rather than to be abandoned.

Over 2,000 babies have been saved and adopted since the program began in 1998.

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