KELSEY: I think we all can agree that a baby box that calls 911 on its own is a better option than a dumpster. Today's boxes are temperature controlled, alarm activated, safety incubators installed in the side of firehouses or hospitals. Now there are 113 boxes across the country, 86 of them in Indiana. box in the small town of Woodburn, Ind., in 2016. SHERIDAN: The idea of a box where a baby could be safely and anonymously surrendered is centuries old. And so on the flight back from Cape Town, South Africa, on a Delta napkin, I hand drew my version of the baby box.

MONICA KELSEY: I had never seen anything like this before. JILL SHERIDAN, BYLINE: It was on a trip to South Africa in a small church where Monica Kelsey first encountered a baby box. From member station WFYI, Jill Sheridan reports on how Indiana leads the baby box effort. Built into the side of fire stations or hospitals, baby boxes allow infants to be surrendered anonymously.

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