“I wanted to adopt him but my husband refused,” she said. “I cried for weeks. I still miss him.”
Officials in Sudan hope to persuade the families of children born out of wedlock to accept and raise them, but the crisis of abandonment continues virtually unabated. Now more than half are adopted by others, and a rising number have been reunited with their birth parents, something that is only possible when a family member leaves the infant at the orphanage rather than dumping it somewhere to be found.
“We need a fundamental social change,” said Hamad al Neer Haider, who works at the orphanage. “As a society we need to stop throwing away innocent babies.”
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