Kenya trip in May 2011
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