Adopt-A-Cot because Babies Lives Matter!

At Embrace Village, we believe that every baby matters—not just in a general, feel-good way, but in the most practical and sacred sense. Every baby deserves to be safe, loved, fed, held, and responded to. Yet, in our corner of the world, many babies begin life under immense pressure: born to mothers in crisis, into homes with little income, or into families barely holding on.

Our Adopt-A-Cot campaign was born out of this urgency. It invites sponsors to help cover the cost of high-quality daycare for vulnerable infants and toddlers. We have been blessed beyond measure to see how donors stepped forward to help preserve families, ease burdens, and ensure no baby is placed in institutional care simply because of poverty.

We’ve had warm engagement and interest, and we need you to keep sharing the impact of this project. The babies are still here. And we are still sure that this is the way.

Why Adopt-A-Cot matters

Every cot in our nursery holds more than a baby—it holds a story. A young mother who’s returned to school, knowing her baby is in safe hands. A grandmother who can continue working as a cleaner because she has reliable care for her grandson. A foster mother who was willing to take on a fourth baby because she knows we will stand beside her.

Each cot sponsorship covers daily meals, nappies, formula, staff salaries, and the soft costs that come with trauma-informed care—rocking a crying child back to sleep, singing lullabies during nappy changes, warming bottles at dawn, responding to a fever, or just being the steady presence that babies need to thrive.

Our team consists of experienced caregivers and support staff who know how to create secure attachments with little ones who may already have experienced loss, neglect, or multiple placements. We are not running a creche—we are holding the fragile beginning of a life and saying, “You matter.”

What we’ve faced

Running this programme in a world where the costs keep rising is, in a word, hard. It means that our team is often making personal sacrifices. It means making do—stretching food, reusing clothing, creatively reworking second-hand cots, and rallying volunteers for support.

It also means facing some deeply painful decisions. Sometimes we have to say no to a family in need—not because we lack the heart, but because we lack the hands, the funds, the space. That’s not the kind of “no” that ever feels right. But we are committed to saying yes as often as we can.

Despite the constant need for more financial support, the impact of this project is visible in every healthy baby who reaches a developmental milestone, every new skill learned and every smiling child arriving for school each day.

What gives us hope

There are things money can’t measure: the way Baby Lesedi smiles when her caregiver enters the room, the way two toddlers hold hands on their way to breakfast, the way a teenage mother breathes easier knowing her baby is fed and safe while she takes her exams.

Recently, one of our caregivers noticed that a baby who had been developmentally delayed started rolling over and babbling after just three weeks of consistent care. That’s the power of presence, rhythm, and love. That’s the promise of a cot that’s not just a bed—but a beginning.

We could not do this project without you

We see the future being shaped in the smallest, sleepiest moments.

To those reading this: thank you. Your attention is a kind of solidarity. Your belief in our work is no small thing. We hope you’ll know that, truly, this isn’t charity. It’s a vote for the kind of world where no baby is left behind.

We still believe that babies' lives matter.
We still believe this is the way.

With gratitude and resolve,
Pippa Jarvis