Birth Registration Creates A World Of Opportunities

The plight of many young mothers in the grass roots of Africa is such that they are not able to grant their newborns an important tool that would grant them identities and accord them rights in their communities. This crucial tool is a birth certificate - the rendering of one to a newborn (its mother) marks an incredible event which would allow the child access to a world of opportunities ranging from healthcare to education and employment.

The birth certificate remains an essential document required for the processing of applications to educational institutions and for travel documents amongst others.

With the rate of awareness surrounding the importance of birth registration and its implication for the child, it remains that about 50% of children under five are still unregistered and largely at a risk of being unrecognised in their societies. Jovago.com , in collaboration with the renowned UNICEF which is a powerful force of change on rights and wellbeing of children, sees an amount from each booking go to support the “Passport to Protection” programme.

The lack of birth registration remains a central subject in many rural communities in African countries. This is because a large chunk of the inhabitants do not realise the importance of birth certificates and the opportunities that come with it. Efforts have been made to collaborate with local healthcare centres and community leadership to encourage the importance of birth certification within the newborn’s first month.

With the unwavering interest of UNICEF in the rights and welfare of children, many communities are now incorporating programmes to help boost birth registration in the grass roots and open a world of opportunities to the registered children. This supports the fact that the importance of birth registration cannot be undermined. It remains a priority in several communities around the world.

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Jovago.com is an online hotel booking service with offices in Lagos (Nigeria), Nairobi (Kenya), Dakar (Senegal) founded by Africa Internet Group and has MTN and Millicom as its investors. Jovago.com, Africa’s No.1 booking portal, facilitates the booking process for its users to provide them with the best hotel booking experience with fast, transparent and easy-to-use services. Jovago.com has over 25,000 local hotel listings across Africa and over 200,000 hotels around the world.