Christopher Ategeka: How adoption worked for me
Кристофер Атегека: Как на меня повлияло усыновление
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from the African continent?
детей из Африки?
when I was very, very young.
очень, очень маленьким.
effects of poverty,
sponsor-an-orphan programs,
которая находит спонсоров для сирот.
to acquire an education.
получить образование.
this particular program worked,
моя программа предполагала,
and after high school,
to become a carpenter, a mechanic
становтся плотником, механиком
от остальных.
these 25 dollars a month
ежемесячно 25 долларов
to college instead."
«Если оформишь документы,
in America instead."
and applied for the visa.
и подал документы на визу.
with this piece of paper in my hand,
с этой бумагой в руках,
that someone might steal it.
to put it in a plastic bag,
and put it in there."
"Maybe someone saw me."
что меня могли заметить.
with me the entire night --
и держал при себе всю ночь.
an anxiety-filled night.
just like another speaker said,
как сказал один из выступающих,
увидеть самолёт,
to fly to another country.
и даже полететь в другую страну.
beautiful women I've ever seen walked up,
я когда-либо видел, подходит ко мне,
I have no idea what I'm doing.
let alone with this damn towel --
а тут ещё это проклятое полотенце.
could do in that situation:
что делают другие пассажиры.
everyone else is doing.
from my village to the airport that day.
добираясь из своей деревни до аэропорта.
everyone else is doing,
that when she came by to pick it up,
когда она пришла его забирать,
много возможностей,
заложенный в меня потенциал.
everything from scratch:
буквально всему с нуля —
that's a refrigerator --
and different culture.
и совершенно другую культуру.
что я что-то значу,
of their own biological children.
мне нужно было всё.
a lot of time with me.
of jealousy with their children.
их родных детей.
with your love and affection --
ваша любовь или забота,
two engineering degrees
institutions in the world.
who embrace multiculturalism,
идею мультикультурализма,
experience multiculturalism.
почувствовать на себе мультикультурализм.
that will enrich their life,
and the racism of this world today,
избавить мир от фанатизма и расизма,
inclusive, connected world
доброжелательный, сплочённый мир,
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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