Christopher Ategeka: How adoption worked for me
Christopher Ategeka: Comment l'adoption a fonctionné pour moi
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from the African continent?
venant du continent africain ?
when I was very, very young.
quand j'étais très, très jeune.
effects of poverty,
négatifs de la pauvreté,
sponsor-an-orphan programs,
de parrainage d'un orphelin,
to acquire an education.
l'opportunité d'accéder à une éducation.
this particular program worked,
dont ce programme fonctionnait
and after high school,
to become a carpenter, a mechanic
pour devenir charpentier, mécanicien
these 25 dollars a month
ces 25 dollars par mois
to college instead."
plutôt à l'université. »
in America instead."
à l'école aux Etats-Unis. »
and applied for the visa.
et j'ai fait une demande de visa.
with this piece of paper in my hand,
avec ce bout de papier en main,
that someone might steal it.
to put it in a plastic bag,
and put it in there."
et le mettre dedans.
"Maybe someone saw me."
Et si quelqu'un m'avait vu ?
with me the entire night --
avec moi toute la nuit --
an anxiety-filled night.
une nuit pleine d'anxiété.
just like another speaker said,
comme un autre intervenant l'a dit,
to fly to another country.
pour voler vers un autre pays.
beautiful women I've ever seen walked up,
que j'ai jamais vues s'est approchée,
I have no idea what I'm doing.
j'ignorais ce que je faisais.
let alone with this damn towel --
alors quoi faire de cette serviette --
could do in that situation:
dans cette situation :
everyone else is doing.
ce que les autres faisaient.
from my village to the airport that day.
depuis mon village jusqu'à l'aéroport.
everyone else is doing,
comme tous les autres,
that when she came by to pick it up,
que lorsqu'elle est venu les récupérer,
que dieu m'avait transmis.
everything from scratch:
that's a refrigerator --
ceci est un réfrigérateur --
and different culture.
nouvelle et différente.
que je comptais,
of their own biological children.
deux enfants biologiques.
a lot of time with me.
beaucoup de temps avec moi.
of jealousy with their children.
d'un peu de jalousie avec leurs enfants.
with your love and affection --
ni de votre affection --
two engineering degrees
institutions in the world.
institutions au monde.
who embrace multiculturalism,
embrassé le multiculturalisme,
sur le continent africain.
experience multiculturalism.
à connaître le multiculturalisme.
that will enrich their life,
rendra sa vie plus riche
un jour intervenir à TED.
and the racism of this world today,
résoudre le problème de l'intolérance
inclusive, connected world
plus positif, ouvert et connecté,
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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