My colleagues and I have lately got considerably immersed in matters around fostering of children, thanks to memoranda of understanding (MOUs) signed between our employer and St Martin CSA – a major NGO that– together with affiliate organisations - has sought to improve lives of vulnerable and marginalised people in Samburu, Laikipia, Baringo and Nyandarua counties since 1997. Previously, foster care was a distant and merely scholarly concept in our ‘ivory towers’ of academe.