Building a bridge to Kenya

African delegation visits Aurora as part of global workforce development effort

  • Roseline Njogu, Principal Secretary with the Kenya State Department for Diaspora Affairs, is all smiles as she puts on an International Workforce Services cap during a trade delegation visit to Aurora Friday. The hat was part of a gift exchange between the Aurora hosts and guests from Kenya.
    Roseline Njogu, Principal Secretary with the Kenya State Department for Diaspora Affairs, is all smiles as she puts on an International Workforce Services cap during a trade delegation visit to Aurora Friday. The hat was part of a gift exchange between the Aurora hosts and guests from Kenya.
  • The conference room at International Workforce Services in downtown Aurora was filled with representatives from Hamilton County and Kenya who are working to build, as the sign on the back wall says: “Nebraska’s Bridge to Kenya.”
    The conference room at International Workforce Services in downtown Aurora was filled with representatives from Hamilton County and Kenya who are working to build, as the sign on the back wall says: “Nebraska’s Bridge to Kenya.”
    A delegation from Kenya led by a principal secretary with the African nation’s State Department spent time in Aurora Friday near the end of a two-week American tour focused on global workforce development.The end result of that visit was an agreement to finalize a memorandum of understanding, which parties from both Kenya and Nebraska, including Todd Vettel and Laban Njuguna of Aurora, sa...

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