By Gabriel Adeyemo in Abuja, Nigeria
Over the past seven years, Liyatu Ayuba, 50, a traditional birth attendant, has helped deliver over 100 children. In that time, she has seen many of the children grow up in Durumi camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Abuja, without birth certificates.
“I only write the children’s names, date and time that I deliver them for my records. There is no one to issue a birth certificate to them,” said Liyatu.
She added that some of the families of the children in the camp who originally had certificates misplaced them when they were displaced.
Durumi is one of 18 IDP camps in Nigeria’s capital, with over 2,700 displaced people, mostly from northeastern Nigeria. It is one of three camps selected to pilot a birth registration drive run by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, together with the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) and the National Population Commission (NPC).
Read further: https://www.unhcr.org/afr/news/stories/2021/8/612e01a44/over-1500-displaced-children-receive-birth-certificates-in-nigeria.html
