Article: European Times: HAMBURG - `Our baby bank is saving children who might otherwise die of neglect'

IN FRONT of the New Apostolic church on Goethestrasse in Hamburg, a yellow container marked with a cross invites donations for the poor. Next door at the kindergarten there is also a donation box, a metal flap in the door, which carries a warning that it will open once only. One baby at a time please.

While the church gathers old clothes for the needy, the kindergarten will, when it opens in a few weeks, collect the babies that are "posted" through the door and tumble down the chute. These are the unwanted children, abandoned soon after their birth.

The drop-off centre aims to prevent their otherwise inevitable deaths. Shocked by the discovery last December of a dead infant dumped in a ...

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