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It is fascinating the

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universe of unpredictable events

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that the humble silence of
a nimble seed can unleash.

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The small, almost invisible,
defies the void and springs up to

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in the most inhospitable places.

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It may be that even without wanting
it, that same seed grows crooked,

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but in essence it will still be a tree,

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and that tree will, one day, feed

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with its fruits, it will build with

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its wood or provide
shelter with its shade.

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Sometimes, to change the
world, it is enough to

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putting the seed in the right hands.

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123 Neem seeds

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Volunteering is a

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a term that we completely confuse.

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Professional volunteering is one thing

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and another thing is voluntourism.

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What they come to Africa to do is
voluntourism, to fill up your Instagram

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of photos with black children, to say how
happy they are with how little they have,

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who are always smiling and all that
kind of nonsense that gets on my nerves.

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I work in Mokowe.

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The area of Africa we are
in is a very poor area.

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Seven out of ten families
live below the poverty line.

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One in three children
does not attend school

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and malnutrition

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it's a big problem we have here.

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Hello!

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Reaching the school in Mocowe

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is to reach the world of love.

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It's a very difficult world, but I
see the evolution they are having

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children, then that blows my mind.

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I work at Lamu Special School,
which is the only school there is.

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for children with functional
diversity throughout Lamu county.

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Within BeSocial, I am the field
coordinator. I love this place

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gives me a little peace of mind.

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It has made me realise that I really
like children, which I didn't have

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than I have spent on it so far,
but in the end the world, life,

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it puts you in the place you need to be.

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I think I am much more
socially productive,

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which is what I really like.

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I had never thought of
it as social production.

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I like it.

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These are the school's facilities.

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The school is a boarding school, the
dormitory for the girls, who only have

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one, and there is the bedroom of the
children, who are divided

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into autonomous children

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and in children who need help.

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Well, here we have
Abderramani, my beautiful boy.

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Abderramani is the seed of this project.

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Abderramani's reaction
when he reached this

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school was brutal because
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there was a child listening to music
with a speaker, I will never forget it,

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and said to him: Come, and the
two of them sat down on a wall

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to listen to the music.

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A minute and a half later the two of them
were dancing and Abderramani came running

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towards us and towards
his mother and said:

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Mamalú.

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I don't want to go back to the
other school, I want to stay here.

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A minute and a half.

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For many years, Abderramani
did very well at school

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in which he was, but there came a time
when he was already a bit of a misfit.

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The children bullied him, they gathered
round him and said: "You're crazy!

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mad

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and he couldn't be in that place any more,
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had to find him a school.

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Then we knew we had found
a home for Abderramani.

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a place where I would be understood,
accepted, a place to which

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he belonged and where he
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Here we have the kitchen and
here we have the dining room.

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Water is one of the biggest
problems we have here.

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There are three different
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This is one of them, that the water
that comes out of here is salt water.

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This is the one we would
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for all that, for hygiene.

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We have all the pipes to collect
rainwater, which is better than water from

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rain goes to these tanks, to three tanks
that we have connected to the kitchen.

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So, with this rainwater, which
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This school is like a home
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that would happen in their house.

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It's something that shocks us quite a lot,
but the children here,

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from when they are very

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little ones, they do the washing.

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My name is Juliette Ali.

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And I study at Lamu Special School

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I like playing with my friend Florence.

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we usually help out in the kitchen

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I'm learning to weave raffia

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I love mamaLu because whenever we ask her
for something she tries

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to get it however she can

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There are 123 children
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Most of them are children who live here.

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And then we have some cases of
children who come and go every day, but

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sleep at home, as in the case of Sume.

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Sume lives very close by

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from the school, about 20 metres away,

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in a house built of mud and sticks.

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He lives with his mother and she
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of what comes out. One day she washes
clothes here, the next

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day she sews over there.

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And with what he earns he is
able to provide for his family.

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and in Sume's case, we know that she is
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and is very much loved.

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Unfortunately, not all cases
are like that of Sume's family.

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Body parts. Again, body parts

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Hair, Mouth.

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Applause, OK. Anyone else?

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Lamu, together with Tana Riber,

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are the two counties with the lowest
level of education in the whole of Kenya.

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For the classes here, within the school,

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what we provide them with are the
materials that the teachers ask us for.

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The one who asks us for the most resources
is Madame Faridah, who is a teacher

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ideal and super creative.

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I like helping these children because
they are just like other children

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I really like being at this
school to help these children

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to become someone else

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So that they can help themselves
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It's more difficult at this
school because the parents

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they don't help the children.
Because they have that stigma

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by the community. Even the community
doesn't want to hear about these children

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They bring the children here like
a rubbish tip, they don't help.

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It may be that communities can hide them
because they do not embrace diversity

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They do not embrace disability

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Some can hide them in their homes

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Families don't want to be stigmatised
by their child's disability

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Society in this place
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a bad omen for his family.

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Then the family might do something wrong,

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that's why he punishes children.

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Come on, sit down!

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Above all, it's always
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of women, for starters.

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They often believe it is divine
punishment from the devil or whoever.

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What happens is that here families
see children see each other

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like life insurance.

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You look after them when they are young
and give them an education and they

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look after you when you are old.

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they will look after
you and give you money.

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It is very difficult for our
children to become completely

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independent and also give
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As a result, families don't
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they don't want to pay for the school
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to receive anything in return.

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My dream for this school is to have
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so that everyone in the community

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want to bring the student here

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So that they can acquire more skills

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So that the community can
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perfect for each and every
student. But if we receive more aid

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in this way we will move these
children from one situation to another

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so that they can be
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How are you? Fine!

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Shindo

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How are you, dear?

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Art class is a marvellous place.

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The most marvellous thing
about art class is Shindo.

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When I was a child, I had this passion

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of teaching other people things

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When I played as a child I wanted
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That's why I have this passion,
but I wanted it to be special

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That's why I ventured
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I feel like he was calling me

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It's incredible because
until recently this class

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wasn't there, just like
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We want to ensure that they learn
trades and once they finish school,

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can develop and have autonomy
and a job of their own.

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It is going to change their lives for sure

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Most of them, when they came here to class

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it is possible that they
could not read or write

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That they were not capable
of expressing themselves

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They didn't know how to communicate
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But over time his behaviour
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they tell you if they want to do
this or feel like drawing this

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And what's more, through art,
our children are able to express

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emotions that they normally would
not, they are able to concentrate,

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above all also because Shindo is

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able to bring out the best in them.

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The places where we have
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within this school, have been
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Well, the kitchen was a mess, I don't
know why they called it a kitchen.

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I didn't think it could be a kitchen, it
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floor, it was dirty.

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Then the class, which at the
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which is now the gym.

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Mr Abdala's classroom
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now the multisensory classroom.

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The Kenyan curriculum for children with
functional diversity barely includes

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different than for normative children.

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We have decided to support
them in the trades.

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They gave us a big lesson, we
divided it in two and we did,

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on the one hand, the art class and,
on the other hand, the workshop class,

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where we do the hairdressing,
sewing and crafts workshops.

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I feel very proud of all the
facilities because I know what it has

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side to get them, both economically
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But the one we like the most, the most,
the most, the most, and we

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know that it has changed the

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The children's favourite
place is the gym. Hi James.

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James is our person Our everything here.

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He is the one who starts all the projects.

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The nutrition project began,
but now it is completely focused

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in the physiotherapy project.

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BeSocial is helping my
brother who is at university

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studying nursing and he is also very happy

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When we started the physiotherapy project,

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there were some children who couldn't walk

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Some were having problems with their
hands and now they are walking very well

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and very happy going everywhere

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He makes groups with all the children

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and specific rehabilitation with some.

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His star child, the one he works best
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Some really cool stuff is with Jamesa.

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Jamesa is a child about whom we feel very

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proud, first of all, because
it sets an example to the rest

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of the children for their great
capacity for fighting and bravery,

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It's like coming full circle, giving
opportunities to children who in principle

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are outside society, to
become involved in it again

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and that he will end up fully integrated,
working in whatever he wants to do.

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Most of the children at this school
are boarders and then we have

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other children who, despite
being hospitalised here,

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they don't spend most of their life here.

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Jamesa studies at Mokowé Primary school.

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So the change from Jamesa to
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Bye!

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It was clear that there
had to be a project

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of physiotherapy that would help them
improve the quality of their lives.

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The most spectacular case is that
of Jamesa, who has a shortened leg.

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His family thought he couldn't go
to school and BeSocial sponsored him

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and we started to run it
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and the Pablo Horstmann Foundation
to all the doctors I needed.

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He couldn't be operated on, but
we could fit him with a brace.

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How was your day at school?

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It went well

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What do you feel now?

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Cold skin

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A completely normal child.

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At school they accept his condition
without any problem and he is

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super happy to be able to
have a completely normal life.

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That we are worried because we don't

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we know what's wrong with Gichuki

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On Monday it was no longer well.

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No Monday was fine

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And is he having convulsions? Yes

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He had a seizure and fell to the ground

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It is a child is a child who is

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epileptic and who appears
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We have many epileptic children.

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So, the problem is that when they go home

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, we are not sure that they
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Whenever they come back it's when they
have crises, when they have problems.

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So, we are never sure if they have
been given to him well or badly.

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My mum told me that I had given
her the medicine but it's not true

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It's not normal

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There is a fairly high
percentage of children

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for those who suffer,

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because we know that they will
not be in good condition at home,

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they are not going to be looked after.

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Those who take medication do
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It's all a bit disastrous.

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We'll take him to the hospital.
Next week we'll go with two of them.

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Next week we're also going with Gichuki

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When the school closes,

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feelings are mixed because we know
that there are children who suffer

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physical abuse in their homes.

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It is difficult to understand,
well, it is not understandable,

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and we try not to judge it because it
is the society in which they have lived,

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in which they have been brought
up, where children are mistreated

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is almost standardised and for children
with disabilities, much more so.

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We have a hard time and every
time the school opens, I

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And I see that the children
are coming back, It gives me

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extra tranquillity and happiness.

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We have James

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who is unpacking all the vegetables
that have arrived for the week

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We spend approximately 120
euros on vegetables alone, or

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150 euros a week, just for the vegetables.

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Julius, what are you doing?

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What are you doing?

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Julius is one of our
most beautiful children.

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Julius was a child you couldn't get close
to and now you can't tear

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yourself away from him,

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which we love.

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We think he is 13 years old.

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But we don't know because very few
people here have a birth certificate.

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Julius, you bet!

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He is a spectacular child,
the child that every

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the person who comes
falls in love with him.

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Julius, when I arrived at this school,
he was a shy child, he never came close,

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He was always afraid of being hit, you
couldn't do any activities with him.

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Julio is going to plant
another moringa tree today.

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Little by little, through
play, the music he loves,

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we have been getting closer, closer.

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Now Julius is a fun-loving,
affectionate child.

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He has received so much love that
he also wants to give a lot of love.

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He has also changed his behaviour
with all his colleagues.

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It has become a leader.

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One of the most painful days I have
experienced at this

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school is when the mother

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Julius's father came to look for his
brother Michael, who was also on this

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school, without even greeting Julius
without even paying any attention to him,

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without even trying to
take him or console him.

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I have never heard anyone cry
in such a sad, heartfelt way.

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From that day on, James and I
devoted ourselves exclusively to it.

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to give him all the love he needed.

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That was when we discovered
and reaffirmed that love moves

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mountains and that love
changes everything.

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That my boys and girls
eat a balanced diet,

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that means they are going to be healthier,
that when they have problems

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they are going to have

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better defences, that they like food more,

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that they broaden their minds to eating
other types of food, but

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above all it means health.

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Ok, but

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I don't usually think much, but when
I stop to think it blows my mind

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the great capacity to adapt from
the very first minute that I have

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had on this site.

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OK so this is impossible
this week, but...?

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Well, look, if you come, I have

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I am basically a patient person.

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But here you work on patience
to indescribable limits.

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Mira Dewa

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It's the way I look.

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And this one here, you
scoundrel, has stolen my glasses.

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Give them to Adrián, they're mine.

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Give me the glasses, come on.

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I think I'm coping more
or less, I'm adapting.

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Dewa.

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No, if now

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Oh, the glasses. And there are times
when I have to take a deep breath.

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Many times.

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Irungu.

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When we arrived, he did not allow any,
any, any, any, any physical contact

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and little by little we
have been working with him.

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And now the first thing I get when I
arrive at this school is always a hug,

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admit much more physical contact,
more with women than with men.

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His stepfather mistreats
him when he goes home.

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So, it's a story that is a bit

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It's very tough.

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The last time he went home he ran away and
Because it is precisely from mistreatment

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his stepfather and he disappeared
for two and a half months.

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And over here we have Yuma.

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In the community they call it a miracle.

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Three years ago, Yuma wasn't walking,
he was just dragging himself along.

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And now, Yuma can walk
perfectly and this is

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it's thanks to all the work the physicists
have done, the work James has done,

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the work done by the local
physiotherapists and especially Yuma.

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Although he is a bit
lazy, he has worked a lot.

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Eh, Yuma?

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Yescome on...

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Well, for my boys and my
girls I feel a lot of love.

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Sometimes I am amazed at the
strong bond we have created.

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I find it incredible that there
are people who reject their own

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families or within society.

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And the truth is that,
as I come every day,

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I see them as completely
normative boys and girls.

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In other words, I don't
see much difference.

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Some children can't talk,
other children drool,

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other children walk normally.

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But in my mind that is no longer there.

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In my mind there are a thousand boys and a
thousand girls who are more

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beautiful than all the others.

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"Although I can't move,
in my mind I am free"

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Stephen Hawking