A child belongs to the entire society

The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, this week, paid tribute to Rwanda’s policy of phasing out orphanages by transferring vulnerable children to foster families, rather than keeping them in childcare centres.  The Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion is currently running a programme, dubbed “Mpore Mpore”, under which all children in orphanages are documented and assisted to reunite with their families, or taken to foster homes.