Christopher Ategeka: How adoption worked for me
Christopher Ategeka: Jak adopcja mi pomogła
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from the African continent?
when I was very, very young.
kiedy byłem bardzo mały.
effects of poverty,
negatywnych skutków biedy,
sponsor-an-orphan programs,
"sponsoruj sierotę"
to acquire an education.
i szansę zdobycia wykształcenia.
this particular program worked,
and after high school,
to become a carpenter, a mechanic
cieślą, mechanikiem
these 25 dollars a month
miesięcznie do sierocińca,
to college instead."
wysłać cię na studia".
potrzebne dokumenty,
in America instead."
do szkoły w Ameryce".
and applied for the visa.
i złożyłem podanie o wizę.
with this piece of paper in my hand,
that someone might steal it.
to put it in a plastic bag,
and put it in there."
wykopię dziurę, i włożę go tam".
że może ktoś mnie zobaczył.
"Maybe someone saw me."
przy sobie całą noc...
with me the entire night --
że to była niespokojna noc.
an anxiety-filled night.
just like another speaker said,
jak mówił poprzedni prelegent,
to fly to another country.
i to jeszcze do innego kraju.
beautiful women I've ever seen walked up,
kobiet, jakie widziałem,
I have no idea what I'm doing.
nie mam pojęcia, co robię.
a co dopiero z cholernym ręczniczkiem.
let alone with this damn towel --
could do in that situation:
everyone else is doing.
from my village to the airport that day.
godzin z mojej wioski na lotnisko.
everyone else is doing,
that when she came by to pick it up,
że kiedy wróciła po niego,
przez Boga potencjału.
everything from scratch:
wszystkiego od zera:
that's a refrigerator --
and different culture.
że byłem kimś ważnym;
of their own biological children.
biologicznych dzieci.
a lot of time with me.
of jealousy with their children.
with your love and affection --
z waszą miłością i czułością,
na studiach inżynierskich.
two engineering degrees
institutions in the world.
uczelni na świecie.
who embrace multiculturalism,
experience multiculturalism.
w doświadczeniu wielokulturowości.
that will enrich their life,
wygłosić prelekcję TED.
and the racism of this world today,
bigoterii i rasizmowi dzisiejszego świata,
wychować dzieci tak,
inclusive, connected world
i zjednoczony świat
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christopher Ategeka - Serial entrepreneurTED Fellow Christopher Ategeka is on a mission to ensure a sustainable future for humanity and the planet.
Why you should listen
Like Batman, Christopher Ategeka witnessed the death of both his parents as a child. He grew up with immense hardships but managed to navigate an experience that left him equipped with valuable skills.
Ategeka is a serial entrepreneur, engineer and a pioneer in the unintended consequences of technologies ("UCOT") movement. He is the founder and Managing Director at LyfBase, the world's first center for the unintended consequences of technology. Ategeka coined and popularized the term "UCOT" (unintended consequences of technology) in the tech sector and the concept of "UCOT" evangelism. Before that, he founded Health Access Corps, a non-profit that works to establish sustainable health care systems on the African continent. He has been invited to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative and United Nations, and he's won many international awards for his work; he was named a 2016 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a 2017 TED Fellow. His work has been featured in many major media publications both locally and internationally such as BBC, Forbes, and NPR. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science, and Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
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