NGOs Advocate For Child Adoption

Monday, May 20, 2019

ZAMBIA: Families Are Nations (FAN) has partnered with public and private organisations to promote child adaption in Zambia to help the stigma that is associated with infertility.

In an interview, FAN founder Judith Mwila said traditionally when a woman gets married she is expected to start bearing children. If this was not achieved, she would be considered useless.

She explained that the belief that a woman should bear a child when married resulted in some women without children being stigmatised by society, a situation that resulted in a spike in cases of child snatching.

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NGOs Advocate For Child Adoption

ZAMBIA: Families Are Nations (FAN) has partnered with public and private organisations to promote child adaption in Zambia to help the stigma that is associated with infertility.

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