SAVE THE LIVES OF NAMIBIA'S NEW BORN BABIES - this is the campaign I am initiating right now!!!
Cry my beloved country Namibia, Cry my Land of the Brave. Any life irrespective of the age and physical or mential condition of any human being is priceless.
Also, there are women who are struggling with infertility and are forking out huge monies in an effort to give bith to their biological kids... some have even been travelling hundreds of kilometres to neighbouring SA to the fertility clinic for the same purpose. Thank you that Namibia opened its own fertility facility recently.
But, if you carefully follow the news of young moms killing their newly born babies - right here in Namibia you will wonder. The ongoing news in our beautiful country has been worrying.Although available from the Police, this post is not really going into statistics and root causes of why our young mothers go for these unspeakable deeds, but basically just highlight that this challenge which Namibia has been grappling with is still persisting. Having statistics, although serving particular purposes, mainly of measuring the extend or a particular incident, any life counts, not only to the particular parents, but to the community and nation at large.
Baby-dumping cases in Namibia have been doing rounds - and almost every month if not every week, a body of newly born babies is picked up from a dust bin, in the bush, toilet pit, in a plastic or bag or wrapped in a blanked and dumped alongside the road or so. The latest body of a newly born was discovered after a dog crossing the street was seen with a strange body parts.
Various law enforcement agencies, government leaders and women organizations have been condeming these acts, and the perpetrators if found have been sent to courts to face their fate. Religious groups have also intervene, but despite those efforts, something just seem so amiss.. and we need an urgent betting actoin to help Namibia save the lives of newly born babies.
Can anyone out there who might have a SMART solution to this problem - share this with Namibia so that we can put a stop to this....yes, the various factors contributing to this phenomon are known and include issues of rejection of pregnant young moms by at times their parents, or those who contributed to their pregnancy, the fear of losing school or work if these were students or young employees, the unknown future of who will take care of the child, peer pressure, traditional believes and many more. However, this is not the focus of this post for now.
The idea was just to let you know that so far, we still face this challenge at home and it will be good to learn from others how they managed to put a stop to it. I still remmember how many countries learnt from the way Uganda managed the HIV/AIDS pandemic then - and may be, there could be a country or community out there, that has great lessons on baby dumping from which Namibia can learn.
Also, I am away of a campaign of SAVE THE RHINOS - and it was high time that we also introduced a campaign titled, SAVE THE LIVES OF NAMIBIA'S NEWLY BORN BABIES...!
Cry my beloved country Namibia, Cry my Land of the Brave. Any life irrespective of the age and physical or mential condition of any human being is priceless.
Also, there are women who are struggling with infertility and are forking out huge monies in an effort to give bith to their biological kids... some have even been travelling hundreds of kilometres to neighbouring SA to the fertility clinic for the same purpose. Thank you that Namibia opened its own fertility facility recently.
But, if you carefully follow the news of young moms killing their newly born babies - right here in Namibia you will wonder. The ongoing news in our beautiful country has been worrying.Although available from the Police, this post is not really going into statistics and root causes of why our young mothers go for these unspeakable deeds, but basically just highlight that this challenge which Namibia has been grappling with is still persisting. Having statistics, although serving particular purposes, mainly of measuring the extend or a particular incident, any life counts, not only to the particular parents, but to the community and nation at large.
Baby-dumping cases in Namibia have been doing rounds - and almost every month if not every week, a body of newly born babies is picked up from a dust bin, in the bush, toilet pit, in a plastic or bag or wrapped in a blanked and dumped alongside the road or so. The latest body of a newly born was discovered after a dog crossing the street was seen with a strange body parts.
Various law enforcement agencies, government leaders and women organizations have been condeming these acts, and the perpetrators if found have been sent to courts to face their fate. Religious groups have also intervene, but despite those efforts, something just seem so amiss.. and we need an urgent betting actoin to help Namibia save the lives of newly born babies.
Can anyone out there who might have a SMART solution to this problem - share this with Namibia so that we can put a stop to this....yes, the various factors contributing to this phenomon are known and include issues of rejection of pregnant young moms by at times their parents, or those who contributed to their pregnancy, the fear of losing school or work if these were students or young employees, the unknown future of who will take care of the child, peer pressure, traditional believes and many more. However, this is not the focus of this post for now.
The idea was just to let you know that so far, we still face this challenge at home and it will be good to learn from others how they managed to put a stop to it. I still remmember how many countries learnt from the way Uganda managed the HIV/AIDS pandemic then - and may be, there could be a country or community out there, that has great lessons on baby dumping from which Namibia can learn.
Also, I am away of a campaign of SAVE THE RHINOS - and it was high time that we also introduced a campaign titled, SAVE THE LIVES OF NAMIBIA'S NEWLY BORN BABIES...!
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