Poverty, stigma and fear are hampering efforts to find new homes for Ebola orphans

Chaotic times: In the era of Ebola, some families aren't taking in orphans because of fear and stigma. - AFP Photo

Poverty, stigma and fear of the fatal condition are hampering efforts to find new homes for Ebola orphans.

On the sunny morning he was released from the Ebola treatment centre, Abraham was especially looking forward to seeing his mother again. For three weeks, the 14-year-old had lain feverish on a mattress as others around him succumbed in Kailahun, the remote forested region at the centre of Sierra Leone’s Ebola outbreak. Abraham had beaten the odds.