Reasons for Abandonment

In a later blog I will share with you more information about why children end up being abandoned and/or placed in institutions. While the reasons can be many, the bottom line is almost invariably that a mother is trying to give a child a better life or even is trying to save his or her life.

Before I find the opportunity to write that blog, however, I want to share this article with you, which gives some insight into one of these reasons:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45670750