From Lawyer To Missionary: Carrie, Kenya and You

Hey all, Another update though we uploaded some of the photos to FB directly already we didn't get all of them up so I thought I'd update a little on the last trip.  Went in July with by daughter Brooklyn and her friend Josie.  We had a great time.   Spent a lot of time in the schools that Fox River church in Waukesha runs doing activities with the kids and going out into the village to see how the people there live.  It was graet to see some of the qualities that drive me nuts in Brooklyn being but to good use teaching and interacting with a lot of kids (over 100) at one time teaching them English and other fun things.    Josie saw it for the first time and I think she was really enjoyed spending time with kids and they  both realize how much they have to be grateful for here at home and they are motivated to do better in school so they can be the best they can be and share that with the rest of the world whereever that might be in the future.  They both w ould like to do

As many of you have asked, I just wanted to share a little of what was accomplished in Kenya in May 2011.    I meet with some government officials in Nairobi in the first few days I was there, including the person in charge of adoptions and the full adoption process.  She is in the process of writing new regulations for adoption which will facility more international adoptions.      I got a chance to visit three of the four accredited adoption agencies in Nairobi and talk with their staff about international adoptions, their processes and where they see problems in the process.  I was also able to meet with and refer a very good children's law lawyer to the agencies.     Once we arrived in Mombasa, I was able to visit a school in Ribe (just outside of Mombasa on the east coast of africa).   They had a full library sitting in a room of their school, but they had never been in a library so they had no idea how to orgnaize a check out system or set up the books.  So we spent 1/2 a day