New boys

Getting all the six boys was more work than I anticipated, well we set off on Monday with Robin to start the process of getting the legal documents that the boys needed and we needed in order to have the boys in our program. We went to the National Hospital (Kenyatta) where we were taken left and right just to have an x-ray and getting the doctor to read the x-ray and write to us what the boys' ages were. We do this when the kids we take in don't have any documents supporting the dates and years of birth. Its called an age assessment test. We finally get this, but it was late in the evening. The next day we got for the physical medical check up, just to make sure that we don't have any kids who have 'special' kinds of illnesses. We do this...we find that all are fine. Immediately we start the process of finding their parents/guardians for consent. We do by going with the boys to their various places they stayed stay before they left for the streets, explaining to the guardian about MITS purpose and goals, then having the guardian sign an agreement that they have given us the power to be with their kids. This went on smoothly for some boys but a glitch came with two boys.
One parents decided to remain with his son, which is OK with us, the other guardians are not really sure of what to do. They are snot sure of MITS and want to do more investigation of their own. They say they have not seen their boy for 1 and half yrs. The funny thing is they don't want to release the boy to us and they don't want to take him in and leave with them. We will still do a follow-up on this.
From the camp we had boy who was HIV+, called Franklin. While at the camp he told me his story of his life, his family. After the camp we drove him to his uncle's place, I talked to the uncle, though harsh he admitted that he wanted to help. So we reconciled him with his uncle.
We will start an orientation program for the new boys, this will go for the next month.
We are so grateful for the help from the Eastleigh team and the volunteers there, and so thankful to God who has given us the wisdom to choose these boys, who really want to live and change for Him.

(the pic above from left to right - George Lokitoi, Francis Ndung'u, George Karanja and Martin Maina)