This an application for the adoption of an infant brought under the provisions of the Law of the Child Act, No. 21 of 2009. The Petitioners are husband and wife. Their marriage has not been blessed with any issue. The wife has been found with uterine fibroid myomectomy, which necessitated an operation that removed her womb. The infant is female and Tanzanian by birth. She was born in Dar es Salaam two years and some 10 months ago. Her biological father and mother are unknown as the infant was abandoned. The Commissioner for Social Welfare has consented to the adoption. The husband is the business development manager at Legacy Travel Tours and his wife works as a cashier at Steers. The petitioners have shown love and commitment to the infant since she was placed under their care, as they have provided her with all necessary requirements and undertake to continue to do so. The social welfare office has conducted a social investigation regarding the petitioners and their family and made a close follow up of the condition of the physical and psychological development of the infant. The guardian ad litem has also reported that she is satisfied that the petitioners have the means and status that would enable them to suitably maintain and bring up the infant. The guardian ad litem has, therefore, recommended that the adoption order prayed for be granted