Uganda, March 8 -- Child rights activists and adoptive parents have asked the government to put up an adoption centre for children.

The revelation was made yesterday during an adoption awareness conference in Kampala under the theme "Bringing hope to a generation through adoption''.

Adoption refers to the action of legally taking another person's child and bringing him or her up as one's own.

Mr Damon Wamara Kamese, the director of the Uganda Child Rights NGO network, decried the absence of the government in active adoption processes.

"The tendency of moving from one office to another makes the process hard but when you have a one centre where all the issues are cleared, it will ease the process and increase the number of people being...