TRENDS

These infants are beautiful, robust and happy, proud to say 'I belong somewhere'.Souleymanou, Aissata, and Djibrilla are some of the names and identities given to some of the rescued children being taken care of by a local "centre for distressed infants" located in Garoua , North Cameroon . The women who care for these children, work in shifts round the clock,some of them doing so voluntarily. Some of these babies are found in dustbins, others on road sides, while some are deposited ta the doorposts of houses. Many are brought to this centre either starving, malnourished, or in a state of trauma. The loving care and tender affection showered onthese young ones has helped the majority of them to grow up into stabilised adults, with some schooling, while othershave undertaken profitable business ventures . Some of these children, however, do not recover from the shock they are subjected to at birth. A case in point is little Djamyla, whose head was violently hit on