Shamwari yeMwanasikana a Non- Governmental Organization that supports the empowerment and emancipation of the girl child in Zimbabwe has welcomed the decision by the High Court to allow fathers to access and obtain birth certificates of children who would have been abandoned by their mothers.
HealthTimes Reporter
Over the years obtaining a birth certificate in the absence of the mother has been a challenge. In a press statement Shamwari yeMwanasikana highlighted that they have been running a campaign in the importance of acquiring national identity documents.
As Shamwari yemwanasikana, we are currently running the #IDoMatter campaign as a way of raising awareness on the importance of birth registration and obtaining national identity document. We have had people coming forward asking for assistance, presenting cases whereby their mothers have abandoned them and they had no relationship or contact with their maternal relatives.
“This hindered them from birth registration and obtaining national identity documents. With this judgement that limits the discretion of the Registrar General we are hoping for the implementation to be flawless and an increase in children who have birth certificates,” Reads the statement.
Usually maternal relatives of the children have been manipulating children using them as a bait in fighting disagreements that would have happened between the mother and father of the child and as the end result the child will be the one who suffers the most.
