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Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya at the Norfolk Hotel Left to right: Ms. Barbara Daniel Cox, Executive Director of the Mayor's Commission for Women in Philadelphia; Mrs. Malcolm X (Betty Shabazz, Ph.d.); Mrs. Margaret Kenyatta, Chairperson National Organizing Committee to the U.N. Decade Conference (Daughter of Jomo Kenyatta); Shirley Franklin-Archie, National President, National Barristers Wives, Inc. 

Shirley F. Archie was invited by the Women and African Development Program of the African-American Institute to be a member of the Women Leaders Travel Team which visited Kenya January 13-23, 1985

They met with the Kenyan women leaders in the fields of health, economic development, and education as well as with the Kenya Organizing Committees, both Governmental and Non-Governmental levels, for the Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade For Women. This Conference, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya in July, 1985 marks the end of the United Nations Decade For Women which began in 1975.

The objectives of the trip were as follows:

• To establish a relationship between American women leaders and the Kenyan organizers of the Decade Conference to discuss preparations for the Conference and to ensure more effective participation by American women in July.

• To evaluate the condition of woman and children in Kenya, focusing on maternal health and child care.

• To provide an opportunity for dialogue between American specialists and those from Kenya. Members of the Travel Team will participate in a workshop cosponsored with the School of Professional Studies of Nairobi on "Health: Public Policy and Resource Management," with a special emphasis on mothers and children. Participants will include local leaders and public policy makers. The workshop will seek to share successful solutions to problems which can be adapted to present conditions. This workshop is funded through a grant from Carnegie Corporation.

• To explore ways of cooperating towards developing and strengthening new and existing programs.

We will accomplish these objective through meeting with members of: Parliament, the Women's Bureau, the Ministry of Health, the Kenyan Nurses Association, the Fefugee Program of the All Africa Conference of Churches, the School of Professional Studies, the Girl Guides Association, the National Council of Women of Kenya, and Mandeleo ya Wanawake; and visiting projects funded through Ford Foundation, UNICEF, UNDP, USAID, and the European funding community.

As a result of Mrs. Archie's visit to Zimbabwe in Nov. of 1983, her organization is involved with Africare in the building of water wells in Zimbabwe.

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