2010 Child Welfare South Africa, estimated child abandonment at over 3500 babies for that year, a marked increase from previous years.

We can therefore estimate that in 2014 / 2015 approximately 900 babies were found in Gauteng of which two thirds had died.

It is estimated that there is 10 000 babies abandoned each year.

Only 1 in 3 babies, found abandoned, survives.