Namibia: Do orphanages protect children?

Although the Namibian government is against the institutionalisation of orphans, some orphanages, or rather houses of safety, have sprung up to provide accommodation for needy children in the interim. With the Namibian population not too keen to foster orphaned children due to mainly financial difficulties, the kids need to be accommodated somehow. The extended family, many agree, remains the best choice to keep the orphans within the family set-up, but for the same reasons of resources, houses of safety and orphanages, where they collaborate with the line ministries, are necessary, some say.