Campaign Calls On Fathers To Register Their Names

Each year on June 15, we celebrate Fathers Day, honouring our dads and letting them know how important they are in our lives.

Yet for many African children, it is a day that goes unnoticed, or worse, is an empty space in their lives.

How many children on the continent are without fathers in their lives? The answer is we simply do not know. A contributing factor to both low commitment and knowledge about fatherhood is the low numbers of fathers who register their names on their children's birth certificates. One simple step to start to raise the numbers of committed fathers, and equip children with knowledge of their parentage, is to get dads to register their names on the birth certificates of their children!

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