{"id":276,"date":"2025-06-03T11:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idhelp.co.za\/?p=276"},"modified":"2025-06-03T11:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:52:19","slug":"mothers-birth-registration-opens-opportunities-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idhelp.co.za\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/mothers-birth-registration-opens-opportunities-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"MOTHER\u2019S BIRTH REGISTRATION OPENS OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In April 2025, at the ages of 37 and 52, these two women received their first birth certificates ever and applied for their first ID\u2019s!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<strong> 37-year-old MH <\/strong>was born on a farm near Durbanville and she had a stamped document proving that the farmer\u2019s wife had tried to register her birth when she was 2 months old. However, something went wrong and the proper document stayed with the family instead of being submitted to Home Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>At some stage she and her mother visited Home Affairs a few times, but the process was not completed.<\/p>\n<p>She came to ID-Help in May 2024. Home Affairs Bellville found her old <strong>late birth registration<\/strong> file from 2016, but she basically had to go through the whole process again. We assisted her to <strong>obtain new supporting documents<\/strong> for herself and her 2 young children from the hospitals where they had been born, and from the first school that she had attended.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2024 they finally <strong>submitted<\/strong> all these documents.<\/p>\n<p>By February 2025 the <strong>verification<\/strong> of the documents was complete and in March they attended the <strong>panel interview<\/strong> for late registration of birth. In April she received the phone call to collect her first <strong>birth certificate<\/strong> ever, and to apply for her <strong>first ID<\/strong> immediately!<\/p>\n<p>During June, she should receive her ID as well as the birth certificates for her two youngest children. <strong>They will start their school careers with formal identity<\/strong>, which she was denied for so long!<\/p>\n<p>She also has an eldest daughter who matriculates at the end of the year, who will soon also have <strong>her first ID &#8211; essential when applying to study or for formal employment!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2025, at the ages of 37 and 52, these two women received their first birth certificates ever and applied for their first ID\u2019s! The 37-year-old MH was born on a farm near Durbanville and she had a stamped document proving that the farmer\u2019s wife had tried to register her birth when she was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idhelp.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idhelp.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idhelp.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idhelp.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idhelp.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idhelp.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/idhelp.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idhelp.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idhelp.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idhelp.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idhelp.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}