As a newborn baby, my friend was dumped in a box on the steps of the hospital in Nairobi on 14th December 1963, two days after Kenya became independent.
Had she been left there prior to independence shed have been shipped over to the UK as an orphan. Had she been left there a couple of days later shed have been put in a Kenyan orphanage. Given the turmoil during the transition, nobody knew quite what to do so the High Commissioner asked his friend, working there for the BBC at the time, if he would adopt her.
Amanda has asked me to try and trace her birth parents but Ive only got the foregoing info. Other than that, she has two daughters both whom have a peculiar congenital kidney defect. Both Amanda and her daughters (aged 21 and 24) eat healthily yet are morbidly obese. Im unable to divine anything in their facial features which might give a clue as to racial origin.
Any ideas as to where I might start searching? :shrug:
Had she been left there prior to independence shed have been shipped over to the UK as an orphan. Had she been left there a couple of days later shed have been put in a Kenyan orphanage. Given the turmoil during the transition, nobody knew quite what to do so the High Commissioner asked his friend, working there for the BBC at the time, if he would adopt her.
Amanda has asked me to try and trace her birth parents but Ive only got the foregoing info. Other than that, she has two daughters both whom have a peculiar congenital kidney defect. Both Amanda and her daughters (aged 21 and 24) eat healthily yet are morbidly obese. Im unable to divine anything in their facial features which might give a clue as to racial origin.
Any ideas as to where I might start searching? :shrug:
