Do you know this boy? He went missing from Maseno District in 2006. If you know him, please call: 0725588316.
When Ian was small (we're guessing 5 or 6), his parents took him for a visit to his grandparents' house. In the middle of the night, Ian began missing his father, and decided to go look for him. The local police found him wandering the streets of Maseno about an hour outside of Kisumu. Instead of taking Ian to the local chief to attempt to find his family, the police chose to take him to Kisumu and placed him Children's Remand Home, the equivalent of Juvenile Hall in the US.
While at Remand, the local government forgot about him, and Ian spent four or five years sitting in this government home. In early 2010, Remand approached Agape and asked if we would be willing to care for Ian because they lacked the resources and structure to attempt to locate his family. Agape agreed, and in March 2010, Ian became an Agape boy.
Over the past three years, Agape has attempted to locate Ian's family in Maseno but has been unsuccessful thus far . . . an unusual experience for our Kenyan team, who in the past five years have located over 1,000 children's families. Ian and another boy named Willis are the only two boys in five years who we have yet to find their families.
Hence, the "Reverse Milk Carton" experiment; over the next few weeks we are planning to canvas the Maseno area delivering flyers not asking "Have You Seen Me?" but instead asking "Do You Know Me?" We plan to leave flyers with local schools, churches, and with local government offices. We also plan to leave the flyers with local chiefs and village elders who can share the flyer with their constituents during community meetings called "barazas."
Please pray that through these efforts someone will recognize Ian so that we can reunite him with his family after 7 years!!!
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