Christopher Ategeka: How adoption worked for me
Christopher Ategeka: Evlat edinilmek bana ne yaptı
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from the African continent?
görmekten sıkıldı.
when I was very, very young.
ailemi kaybettim.
effects of poverty,
negatif etkilerini yaşadım,
sponsor-an-orphan programs,
--bir yetime sponsor ol-- eğitim
to acquire an education.
sunuldu ve desteklendim.
this particular program worked,
çalışma şekli şöyle,
and after high school,
to become a carpenter, a mechanic
marangozluk, tamircilik
these 25 dollars a month
bu organizasyona
to college instead."
yollamak istiyoruz." dedi.
in America instead."
yollayacağız." dediler.
and applied for the visa.
with this piece of paper in my hand,
that someone might steal it.
korkuyordum.
to put it in a plastic bag,
koyacağım ve dışarı
and put it in there."
koyacağım." dedim.
"Maybe someone saw me."
"Ya biri beni gördüyse..."
with me the entire night --
yanımda tuttum --
an anxiety-filled night.
panik dolu bir geceydi.
just like another speaker said,
başka bir konuşmacının da dediği gibi,
to fly to another country.
içinde oturup beklemek...
beautiful women I've ever seen walked up,
kadınlardan biri yaklaşıyordu,
I have no idea what I'm doing.
ne yaptığımı bilmiyorum.
let alone with this damn towel --
beni havluyla yalnız bırakın --
could do in that situation:
everyone else is doing.
etrafıma baktım.
from my village to the airport that day.
gitmek yedi saat falan sürdü.
everyone else is doing,
that when she came by to pick it up,
mahçup olduğumu hatırlıyorum.
everything from scratch:
öğretmek zorunda kaldılar:
that's a refrigerator --
şu da buzdolabı --
and different culture.
içinde bulmuştum.
of their own biological children.
a lot of time with me.
geçirmelerine sebep oldu.
of jealousy with their children.
beni kıskanmasına yol açtı.
with your love and affection --
pek de istemiyorlar --
two engineering degrees
enstitülerinden birinden
institutions in the world.
who embrace multiculturalism,
empatiyi ve merhameti
bir dünyada yaşıyoruz:
experience multiculturalism.
yardım etmeniz için çağrı yapıyorum.
that will enrich their life,
hayatları zenginleşecek,
bir gün TED'de konuşur.
and the racism of this world today,
bağnazlığı çözemeyebiliriz,
dünyaya empatiyle bakan,
inclusive, connected world
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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