Christopher Ategeka: How adoption worked for me
Christopher Ategeka: Como a adoção deu certo para mim
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from the African continent?
crianças de África?
when I was very, very young.
effects of poverty,
negativos da pobreza,
sponsor-an-orphan programs,
de apoio a órfãos,
to acquire an education.
de ter uma educação.
particular programa funcionava,
this particular program worked,
and after high school,
to become a carpenter, a mechanic
— de carpinteiro, mecânico
these 25 dollars a month
25 dólares mensais
to college instead."
para a universidade."
da documentação,
in America instead."
universidade na América".
and applied for the visa.
with this piece of paper in my hand,
com aquele pedaço de papel na mão,
estava prestes a mudar.
that someone might steal it.
que alguém mo roubasse.
para o pôr em segurança.
to put it in a plastic bag,
saco de plástico,
and put it in there."
e metê-lo lá dentro".
"Maybe someone saw me."
Pensava: "Se calhar, alguém me viu."
comigo a noite toda.
with me the entire night --
uma noite cheia de ansiedade.
an anxiety-filled night.
just like another speaker said,
foi como outro orador disse,
to fly to another country.
e até voar nele para outro país.
beautiful women I've ever seen walked up,
que alguma já vi veio ter comigo,
com um véu branco.
I have no idea what I'm doing.
sem a mínima ideia do que fazer.
let alone with this damn towel --
quanto mais com a toalha.
could do in that situation:
naquela situação:
everyone else is doing.
o que os outros estavam a fazer.
from my village to the airport that day.
até ao aeroporto nesse dia.
everyone else is doing,
that when she came by to pick it up,
que, quando ela a veio buscar,
que Deus me deu.
acolheu-me,
everything from scratch:
ensinaram-me tudo do zero:
that's a refrigerator --
isto é um frigorífico.
and different culture.
cultura nova e diferente.
que eu era importante,
of their own biological children.
tinham dois filhos biológicos.
eu tinha necessidades.
a lot of time with me.
muito tempo comigo.
of jealousy with their children.
de ciúmes nos seus filhos.
with your love and affection --
two engineering degrees
institutions in the world.
do mundo.
não o são.
who embrace multiculturalism,
o multiculturalismo,
dos seres humanos.
experience multiculturalism.
o multiculturalismo.
that will enrich their life,
and the racism of this world today,
deste mundo hoje.
inclusive, connected world
inclusivo, interligado
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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