In September, we were working at the Yala Sub-District Hospital in Siaya Region, Kenya, the home to Senator, now President elect, Barak Obama's father. This area is proud of their native Grandson, as they should be.
While working there we met a young abandoned boy, also named Senata Obama (they do not pronounce the r), named by the hospital staff that care for him. He is about 2 and a half years old and sleeps in the children's ward at night and hangs out near the kitchen during the day where he is able to get food from the cooks.
While we worked, he watched us and played around the job site. Levi Culbertson, one of our volunteer workers from Los Angeles had taken a special liking to the young Senator and carried him around a lot.
We are working on getting him adopted, either to my own family or to Levi's here in the U.S., but process is extremely difficult. It looks like he will actually get adopted by Joseph and Agnes Twoli who run the Aid Orphan Education Trust, organization in Kenya. While they work with orphan children, they will actually adopt him to be there own son.
Joseph and Agnes lost a boy in child birth about 6 month ago, so they have a hole in their heart and family made just for this young boy. We at Assist International will be following up to make sure the process doesn't stall due to a lack of funds and that Senator Obama has a great future.
How can he go wrong with a name sake that has set bar so high?
Tim
