The Rauch Elohim Foundation has employed a social worker to support the Baby Saver Box initiative, following a donation from Rossing Uranium.

The Rossing Foundation gave N$350,000 to enhance the impact of the initiative on baby dumping.

As a way to curb rampant baby dumping in Namibia, the Baby Saver Box is a place where despondent mothers may anonymously and safely leave their babies, rather than abandon them in an unsafe manner.

Ronel Peters and her husband opened their house in Ocean View Swakopmund to accommodate any babies dropped off.

Ten babies were delivered on New Year's Day at Rhino Park, Katutura, and Windhoek Central hospitals.

Four bouncing baby boys were born in the Central Hospital, while three girls and one boy were delivered at the Katutura Hospital.

Rhino Park Hospital delivered one boy and a girl.

The first two babies were born two and three minutes before one o'clock, respectively, at Central and Katutura Hospitals.

The Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security says birth registration is a human right. Hence, parents should ensure that they register their children as soon as they are born. 

Lucia Witbooi said this during her briefing at the Government Information Centre in Windhoek on Wednesday.

At the Katima Mulilo hospital, 12 babies were born on New Year's Day—eight boys and four girls.

An exhausted yet happy new mother, Nambile Mbala, who was the first to give birth to a baby boy shortly after two in the morning, said she was speechless.

She says, despite the delays, she feels a sense of being free and is happy to have finally met her firstborn child, whom she named Musweu.

There is a feeling of excitement when a mother brings life into the world, but when they are born on a day that is celebrated by the majority, let alone the New Year, there is even more reason to celebrate. Those in the bracket will tell you about it.

While revelers in nations that celebrate the New Year were watching the clock hit midnight, expectant mothers at state hospitals in Windhoek were counting down the minutes until delivery while midwives kept a watchful eye.