Rescued By Grace: The Story of Baby Ama
- byron-leeasare
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read
She was found before dawn, wrapped in cloth and tucked inside a white plastic bag, left in the bush near an elementary school in a community in Ghana’s Central Region. Her tiny body was still covered in blood. Her umbilical cord had not been cut by a doctor or a midwife; it had been cut with something sharp, likely whatever her mother could find in her moment of desperation.
Baby Ama was approximately two days old when she was rescued.
It all began in the early hours of one morning, around 6:00 a.m. A farmer, a resident of the community, was on his way to harvest feed for his livestock when he heard a child crying. At first, the sound was indistinct, but it kept echoing faintly. He followed the sound gradually and located the source. It was the cry of a baby girl – alone, fragile and abandoned.
The farmer quickly alerted neighbors nearby. Together, they retrieved the baby, cleaned her and gave her the first warmth she had likely ever known. The matter was reported to the local assemblyman, who escorted them to the community’s police station and then to the community hospital where doctors immediately examined Baby Ama.
According to the doctors’ initial assessment, Baby Ama appeared healthy despite the circumstances of her abandonment, and was subsequently placed under medical observation. At the hospital, the Social Welfare Officers that handled her case visited her to ensure she had access to the continued care she needed and arranged for support for her basic needs – diapers, baby formula, baby bottles and medications.
However, a hospital is not a home where a baby can truly grow. Since a child cannot thrive on medical observation alone, the Department of Social Welfare recommended that Baby Ama be placed in a residential home for children, where she would receive temporary care and protection while investigators continued to search for her parents or relatives.
That is when Village of Hope received the call.
Baby Ama is now at the Babies’ Homes of Hope Children’s Village, the childcare ministry of Village of Hope. Here, she is cared for by loving caregivers – she is fed, clothed and held with warmth. She receives medical care, sleeps in a clean crib, and is surrounded by other babies who, like her, had come from places of loss and abandonment.
Her journey, however, is just beginning. Baby Ama needs more than shelter. She needs education, healthcare, clothing, nutrition, and the kind of consistent love and care that only comes from a stable home and a community that refuses to give up on her.
Baby Ama did not choose to be abandoned. She did not choose to be found in a plastic bag before dawn. She also did not choose to be rescued – she was rescued by grace, grace stepped in for her. You may not have to change the whole world - you only need to change the world for one child at a time. Will you step in and change the world for her?
Please consider sponsoring Baby Ama – or one of the many other children at Village of Hope waiting for someone to say, “I see you. You matter. I will help you” – with a monthly gift of GHS 1,100 ($100). This amount provides full care including nutritious meals, healthcare, clothing and general support to help her thrive.
However, if you are unable to give the full amount, any contribution will still make a meaningful difference in her life and the lives of other children in our care.
Kindly click the link below to help support Baby Ama and the other children under our care:
God bless you.
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