Family

Clive Beckenham, son of the founders of New Life Home Trust, shares his adoption story

Before there ever was a New Life Home Trust, Clive and Mary Beckenham rescued and adopted Clive Beckenham. This highlighted to them the plight of many other abandoned babies and they wondered if there might be other families prepared to do the same. They found that there were, and thus was…...

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How do you define family?

“What happens when a rescued infant isn’t adopted?” Sometimes the answer is complicated: some children are fostered by local families, some are adopted later on, and some are not, because the transition would be too stressful. But sometimes the answer is simple: life happens. The girls at our Carmel House…...

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