The country is said to be witnessing a growing interest in child adoption. Data from the Central Adop­tion Authority (CAA) confirms that 158 families have sought to adopt children in the first half of this year alone, with 220 various interested parties having made enquiries about adoption within the same period from the CAA, which operates under the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection. Per January 2023 statistics from the Department of Social Welfare (DSW), on average, it was receiving from across the country about 20 applications for adoption a month. This translated into some 240 a year, and we can guess that the figure could not cross 300. The average number of applications that received a court order of adoption, which is the document that completes an adoption process, was reported to be five a month.