Today Namibia is considered a stable democracy, however, like so many African nations faces many problems, not least the steady proliferation of HIV/AIDS which is estimated to affect 25% of the entire population leaving 60,000 children orphaned ~ accounting for 50% of all orphans in the country.

It is hard to imagine bring brought up in a country where 17.5% of the entire child population is an orphan and where most adults die shortly after their 50th birthday. Half of the children in Namibia live under the poverty line.

Work with children in Namibia is often as basic as ensuring each child has a birth certificate, for without that they cannot prove who they are, where they were born, or even that they have a right to live in Namibia.

The extent to which child trafficking is occurring in Namibia is largely unknown but as the Deputy Chairperson of the National Council in Namibia stated "Child trafficking is happening here. All we need to do is to carry out a survey to determine how and where exactly."