Wandisa™ Adoption Agency...transforming families and communities through our service to children in South Africa and beyond...

“Wandisa” means “one who adds to the family” in Zulu & Xhosa.

Strategically placed at the epicenter of the HIV & AIDS pandemic, Wandisa™ exists to serve orphaned, abandoned & vulnerable children, knowing that the permanency of adoption:-

positively impacts upon the life of each child, by fulfilling that child’s Godly and Constitutional right to be raised within family;
catalyses transformation within the child’s adoptive family; &
in turn influences cross-generationally the community to which the child belongs;

Wandisa™ is the first Child Protection Organisation to be accredited by the South African Government to facilitate national and intercountry adoptions in terms of the Children’s Act & is a Non Profit Organisation.

We have the local & international street cred to transform families and communities through our service to children in South Africa & beyond.

Founder & President, Debbie Wybrow:-

permanently placed the first South African child in another country in 1995;

successfully entrenched the paramountcy of the child’s best interests in SA Constitutional Court; &

has been inducted into the Adoption Hall of Fame, Washington DC, USA, in honour of her advocacy of the child’s right to family life.

Wandisa™ is unique in engaging with medical, therapeutic, immigration & legal experts to provide multidisciplinary input into each child's life, as envisaged in our Children's Act, over and above that provided by the social workers in our employ.

We offer screening, preparation & counselling to propsective parents adopting nationally, and where an adoptable child's placement internationally with a “forever family” would best realise that child's full potential, we partner with adoption specialists in the USA, Canada & France in terms of approved Working Agreements.