For the first time a new-born baby in Shoumen has been placed in a foster family. On the prevention of abandonment of the baby worked a social worker from the Medical Hospital in Shoumen and the team of the Complex for Social Services to Children and Families, the Regional Foster Care Centre and the Child Protection Unit in Shoumen.

The girl was born on 18.02.2011 – Friday at 9:10 p.m. A little while after giving birth the mother has left the Multi-profile Hospital in Shoumen and left the child within the hands of the hospital.

After a signalization by the social worker in the hospital, the Complex for Social Services started immediately work on the prevention of the abandonment of the child at a Home for Children. The mother was visited by the social worker in the village where she lives about 50 km away from Shoumen. She shared that at this point she cannot and does not want to take care of the child. She lives in very bad living conditions and takes care of three other elder children.

At the release of the baby from the hospital were present the foster parents together with the social workers. The little K. is the first baby that has been taken by foster parents right after birth.

The new-born babies have the greatest need for support by foster parents and this is why the team of the Regional Foster Care Centre in Shoumen works for the encouragement of more and more such families to take babies in their homes.

The telephones of the Regional Foster Care Centre are 054 /800 430 and 0895 522449.