“Two Times Ten Tiny Toes” - an alliteration nerd’s delight, but a double blessing for the Durban family of five. Shortly before the 2025 Festive Season, two small residents at The Domino Foundation’s Babies’ Home officially made their transition to their “forever family” making it a quartet of sons and one lone girl for their new mum and dad.
The diminutive duo had arrived at the Babies’ Home five months earlier. The family heard of them and made the decision to meet the brace of brothers. The mutual getting-acquainted sessions followed and the family very soon needed no persuasion to take the formal steps. Crisis Mom at the home, Precious Thabethe, explained that the Department of Social Development’s matching and vetting processes are rigorous and that its personnel, as always, were meticulous in ensuring that the twins and their potential new family would have a firm foundation for their futures together. Precious added that many criteria have to be met as the well-being of the child up for adoption is of paramount importance.
One of the two smallest members’ older siblings was very enthusiastic about what he saw as his role as Big Brother to the pair: “I can’t wait for them to grow up a bit so that I can teach them soccer!”
With her older offspring starting the new school year, Mum commented: "What wonderful gifts we have been given...the best Christmas presents to really brighten the whole year ahead for us all!!"
The pair are the second set of twins to leave the Babies’ Home in the space of a few months. The other set of identical twins spent a year with Precious and her team of carers before being adopted. Between them, the four bring the total of babies and toddlers either adopted or reunited with their biological families over the past 21 years to 186.
