By Dale Andrews ?Three years ago, I received a telephone call informing me that the police had rescued three children aged five, three and six weeks old. They were abandoned by their mother in a shack at Timehri.The shack at Timehri from which the children were rescued.Such news was rare at that time, and although I had covered a case of a physically challenged child being tied to a bed and left alone in a shack on the West Bank of Demerara, I was not prepared for what I was about to experience.I know that many fathers abandoned their children but one would hardly expect a mother to do likewise especially when a six-week-old is involved.But while children are being abandoned every day, there are many who are willing to take them into their homes and give them a life that they might have only dreamed of.These are the foster parents and I was pleasantly surprised when, earlier last week, I met one of them who has graciously taken one of the abandoned Timehri trio, Baby Sonia, into his home and is giving her a life that many children will envy.Even her two older siblings exhibited a glow that clearly spelt out that they too are being afforded a decent life in foster care with a separate family.I was so impressed with the bond they still have,Cheap Jerseys NFL China, although they have been separated at such a tender age.I was told that at the insistence of the older brother who had cared for them while they were on their own, there is an arrangement for them to see each other at least four times a year.But to really get a clear picture of how they ended up where they are now, we have to go back to June 2011.I can vividly recall when I first got the report of the police discovering three children left alone for days in a shack aback of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, along the road leading to the Dakara Creek.Thanks to the caring neighbours, the police at Timehri were informed and along with officials from the Ministry of Human Services Child Protection Agency, rescued the children.Initial reports had stated that the children’s mother had left them in the care of a 66-year-old physically challenged male foster relative, while she reportedly went to purchase snacks at a shop.Seven-year-old Ronaldo and his five-year-old sister are fond of books.Days later neighbours,Cheap NBA Jerseys USA, realising that the woman had not been seen for a while, moved into the shack,Alexis Sanchez Chile Jersey, only to find the children living in squalor.They said that the six-year-old was doing his best to care for his two younger sisters.The two female ranks from the Timehri Police Station who responded, reacted as many mothers would, crying bitterly, upon seeing the children.To this day the children’s mother has not returned and there are reports that she has started another family somewhere else in Guyana.One of the concerned neighbours had said that the children’s mother had been known to leave them alone for days, so at first there was no major alarm.At the time, the eldest of the children, a boy, who was five years old, would only say that neighbours had been providing them with meals, but they had to sleep alone at nights.I had taken photographs of the rescued children immediately after they were taken into the protective custody of the Child Care Protection Agency. When I saw them on Wednesday through an arrangement with the head of the CPA,Cheap NHL Adidas Jerseys, Ann Greene, I was impressed by the way they had “matured”; their mannerism and language were impeccable.The older brother, Ronaldo, is now seven years old and along with his now five-year-old sister,Wholesale NHL Jerseys, they are in one home and attend a private school.When I asked him about his real mother and father, he was quick to point out “We don’t have no daddy!”About his mother, he said that he does not know where she is and when his little sister tried to suggest that their mother was at home, he reminded her that they were left alone at home.He told me that his mother had left the home telling them that she was going to a nearby shop.“We were sitting in the verandah whole day, waiting on her, then I see her (pointing to his five year old sister) drop to sleep and I carry her to her bed. But mommy didn’t come back at all,” he said.The young man spoke of feeding his six-week-old sister with the pot of tea that his mother had left on the stove, while he and his other sister spent hours at the neighbour in order to get something to eat.“I used to light the candle, make tea for baby Sonia…Mommy had a big pot it was full and I used to dip it (tea) out and feed her. In the night I put on pampers on her and put her in the corner and we will sleep.”Two-year-old baby