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Traditional birth attendant struggles with abandoned newborns

Some of the abandoned children at Nafula’s house. [Duncan Ocholla, Standard]

Sometime in August 2003, a high school student was brought to the doorstep of Metrine Nafula's home.

The girl was seven months pregnant and her mother wanted Ms Nafula, a midwife, to help the teenager get rid of the unborn baby.

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