Here’s what’s gonna be a brief update from East Africa after a busy day full of meetings focusing on how we best bring the access to register and search on the refunite platform to the many refugees living in Nairobi and the Dadaab refugee camp in cooperation with our local partner organizations.

Things are progressing well and we can’t wait to get into real action. If things go as we’re currently aiming for, we should be ready with a launch of registration points by mid-June. and don’t worry –  we’ll make sure to catch your attention, once we have a settled plan, and will of course be hoping for YOUR HELP in spreading the awareness, that is so crucial for our cause.

As we are learning from talks with the different agents working in the field and from the refugees we meet, the refunite tool has the potential of making a significant difference in the lifes very many people. Yesterday, we had the opportunity to visit a branch office of one of our future partners in Eastleigh, an area of Nairobi largely inhabited by Somali and Sudanese refugees. This is one of the places, where we’ll be setting u a registration point in the near future, and we are quite excited about the opportunity of reaching people in their local areas. The problem of people not being able to track their family is immense, and we’re looking for the best model for bringing them the opportunity to get involved in the search themselves.

Ok, this is it for now. It’s been a long day, and we’re looking forward to a quiet night in rainy Nairobi, where we will be preparing tomorrow, which is going to be our final day this time around. However, there seems to be no doubt, that we’ll be back again in the very near future.

Warm greetings,

Mikkel and Helene