{"id":1231,"date":"2007-06-08T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T10:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2007-06-08T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T10:38:13","slug":"my-dream-is-for-my-daugher-to-find-her-future-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/my-dream-is-for-my-daugher-to-find-her-future-in-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy dream is for my daugher to find her future in Africa\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   Worldchanging board chair Ethan Zuckerman is in Africa, covering the TED Global conference. -ed Ory Okolloh asks, \u201cwhat\u2019s image got to do with it?\u201d She tells us that our images of Africa focus on the negative stuff &#8211; the poverty, the corruption and the disease. People assume that as a Harvard-educated African, these aren\u2019t issues that are personal for her. But she tells us, \u201cI know what it is to grow up without money. The bellweather for whether our family was broke or not &#8211; when things were good, we had eggs and sausages, when they were bad, we had porridge.\u201d It was difficult for the family to save, because her parents supported an extended family. But they made a decision to enroll her in a school they could barely afford, a private Catholic school. \u201cI got kicked out pretty much every term,\u201d when the family ran out of money. \u201cWhy don\u2019t these guys just take me to a cheap school &#8211; it\u2019s embarrasing.\u201d Her dream high school was the Kenya school, a national school, but she missed the cut by a single point on the national exam. Her father suggested they go speak to the headmistress to see if&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006842.html\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(Posted by <b>Ethan Zuckerman<\/b> in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/search\/?category=54&amp;search=Go\">Empowering Women<\/a><\/i> at 10:51 AM)<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/worldchanging_fulltext\/~4\/123132333\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worldchanging board chair Ethan Zuckerman is in Africa, covering the TED Global conference. -ed Ory Okolloh asks, \u201cwhat\u2019s image got to do with it?\u201d She tells us that our images of Africa focus on the negative stuff &#8211; the poverty, the corruption and the disease. People assume that as a Harvard-educated African, these aren\u2019t issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}